With the nation debating models and metrics for the federal government’s rating of America’s more than 4,000 colleges and universities, there’s one crucial area that no one talks…
But one overlooked benefit of online learning has been to help universities find a new generation of talented students – and perhaps, along the way, society’s next Steve…
Gartner research VP Frank Buytendijk has called on organisations to be prepared to put the brakes on complex, high-level data analytics and get the basics right before the…
Massive open online courses, or MOOCs, are increasingly multilingual, and two of the largest providers of the free massive open online courses recently announced international initiatives — in…
If you are in college, I don’t mean to alarm you—but you are probably being experimented on. Stop checking for both of your kidneys; it’s not that kind…
If you’ve seen any indication that humans are getting smarter and more sophisticated, please inform me, and you don’t have to read what follows, Silicon Angle reports. For…
Battushig Myanganbayar, a freshman at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from Mongolia, asks me, "Have you ever heard of the 'Freshman 15'?" He's referring to the storied…
The Mooc (massive open online course) phenomenon is having a significant impact on higher education – especially business education, the Financial Times reports. In less than two years,…
When Hadoop started, it had a security problem. The spin from the various Hadoop vendors and proponents tended to be something like, "We see security as a front-end…
The University of the People, a tuition-free online university, received accreditation on Feb. 13 from a national agency and will graduate its first class of seven students later…
A recent Free exchange column looked at how online education might affect higher education. Elite institutions should be fine, we wrote, because they product they offer is completely…
