A majority of research on the predictors of student success in online learning focus on traditional four-year institutions; a fact the community college community finds troubling, since most…
College and university admissions offices, it seems, have reached a saturation point with their use of Facebook as a recruiting and interactive social media tool.
The definition of class participation has changed for college students at the University of Southern California’s (USC) Viterbi School of Engineering. The USC engineering program’s Distance Education Network,…
More students now use smart phones to study than use tablet devices or computers, a new study released by McGraw-Hill Education found. The study, which was commissioned by…
IBM has, in the past year, increasingly pushed universities to create more courses, programs and degrees that would help fill the 4.4 million jobs “Big Data” will create…
Carnegie Mellon University has announced the creation of the Simon Initiative, which focuses on how technology impacts learning, and how educators can avoid historically unsuccessful online learning models.…
The transition from high school to college can be a culture shock for students. That’s even more so for international students. Many students struggle with the transition from…
If I ask 10 people to define predictive analytics and how it is used on their respective campuses to improve student outcomes, I am likely to hear stories…
As an American Council on Education (ACE) CREDIT reviewer, I had the unique privilege of being on the team that reviewed the first MOOC (massive open online course).…
Exhibitors at the 2013 EDUCAUSE conference in Anaheim, Calif., unveiled new ed-tech products that responded to several key trends in higher education, such as helping to ensure student…
The massive collection of data in higher education will never produce a single, infallible formula for success, no matter how much students clamor for such a miracle algorithm.