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…
Apple has long provided devices and software people use for social networking, but now it's moving into the business of analyzing what all that chattery content entails. The…
After a recent media blitz promoting Yale’s online education efforts, the Committee on Online Education held a forum on Monday to showcase different digital initiatives at Yale, The…
The MOOC market (Massive Open Online Courses) has exploded. This month Coursera landed another $20M in funding, bringing their total investment to $63M (even more than edX‘s original…
A lot has been written about the shortage of data scientists, and how universities can do a better job of training the next generation of big data experts.…
The University of Oregon needs at least three things to elevate its game in online education: easy-to-use software to present courses, a sure way to proctor exams to…
The blunders of technology are once again in the news, as the Affordable Care Act’s website continues to wobble around, the Lompoc Record reports. The Army has just…
I'm one of the lucky ones. I landed a tenure-track job at a liberal arts college, a position that offers lots of personal interaction through teaching and advising.…
Earlier this year, CivSource reported on a new Big Data research project at the University of Virgina. Now, the University of Texas San Antonio is getting into the…
Varun Pant recently passed Stanford University courses in cryptography and logic without dropping a single mark, The Sydney Morning Herald reports. But the IT consultant and father of…
The prosecution against MOOCs usually starts by highlighting the huge attrition rates for massive open courses, often claimed to run as high as 90-95 percent. Who in their…
