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…
Picking the right classes that lead to a degree. Registering for courses on time. Checking financial aid status and paying tuition and fees. Navigating the state’s community-college landscape…
As recently as the past two years, one of the seminal issues regarding Big Data was storage, especially with respect to the exponential growth and size of unstructured…
I've recently gone back to college. Well, not exactly, but I have been attending a single class via a massive open online course (MOOC). The course I'm taking…
Some universities count Coursera teaching toward regular teaching obligations. In other words, the university pays the teacher to teach on Coursera. Why do this? To officially be a…
The majority of raw data, particularly big data, doesn't offer a lot of value in its unprocessed state. Of course, by applying the right set of tools, we…
Massive open online courses–online platforms offering courses and educational materials to very large numbers of people–captured our imagination in the Fall of 2011 when, unexpectedly, a free online…
There has been much press for the massive open online courses or MOOCs, including in my series of interviews to date with Sebastian Thrun and Daphne Koller, CEOs…
Massive open online courses–online platforms offering courses and educational materials to very large numbers of people–captured our imagination in the Fall of ... Read more
