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…
Academic leaders are increasingly skeptical of MOOCs, so why are top business schools increasingly warming to the online learning model? An annual report on online education published this…
In a speech that chiefly focused on expansions of initiatives announced last year, State University of New York Chancellor Nancy Zimpher outlined a massive push to expand the…
France's higher education system is going online with an extra eight million euros being invested in Massive Open Online Courses (Moocs), AllAfrica reports. France's Minister for Higher Education,…
Less than a year after San Francisco-based education startup Udemy brought its online marketplace to the iPhone , the company has expanded to Android, Gigaom reports. Mobile users…
It was good to catch up with Roman Stanek, CEO and founder of data analysis startup GoodData. There’s some interesting news coming up that I can’t talk about…
The potential for K-12 online learning in the U.S. is still being realized. It seems that every year the amount of K-12 students taking courses online grows exponentially,…
If you want to study computer programming at a sub-Saharan African university, bring a pencil, FastCompany reports. "We used to write programs on paper," says Ahmed Maawy of…
A tiny windmill invented at the University of Texas at Arlington could end up charging future smartphones, according to researchers, the Houston Chronicle reports. Engineering majors had been…
Big data plagued businesses in 2013. The IT community should expect no less in 2014, as businesses of all sizes face the challenges big data presents and seek…