Featured What is faculty’s role in competency-based education? By Brooks Doherty September 3rd, 2018 Imagine you’re a student. You walk into a classroom on the first day of the semester. You approach your chosen desk and there sits a thick sealed envelope. Looking around,…
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News Forum calls for better data use in education March 12th, 2009 Speakers at a forum about the use of longitudinal data in education stressed the importance…
News 3 ways to prepare for a return to virtual teaching September 18th, 2020 As the 2020-21 academic year begins, colleges and universities are unveiling tentative plans for what teaching and learning will look like in the fall. Even…
News Creative engagement: Instructor and student tools for collaboration September 17th, 2020 As college students embark on a fall semester like none other, so do instructors. The pandemic challenged both to succeed in an online setting, but…
News Pepperdine University Upgrades More Than 160 Classrooms with Hybrid Classroom Solution Featuring Panasonic Pan/Tilt/Zoom Camera for Remote Learning Instruction September 16th, 2020 To provide a fully remote learning environment for the Fall 2020 semester to support faculty and students, Pepperdine University installed EduFLEX, a hybrid classroom technology…
News AMD COVID-19 HPC Fund Adds 18 Institutions to Fight COVID-19 September 16th, 2020 High performance AMD EPYC CPUs and Radeon Instinct GPUs to power COVID-19 focused research at Stanford School of Medicine, The University of Texas at Austin,…
News Fall Enrollment Increase is Largest in Nearly a Decade Retention Rises to 77%, Among Highest in Arkansas September 16th, 2020 On Friday, the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff (UAPB) reported a sharp increase in year-over-year enrollment of new and continuing students, including graduate, undergraduate,…
News Learning lightboards bring a human element to online learning September 16th, 2020 Trinity Western University (TWU) students bring more human faces to online learning by building lightboards that allow professors to look directly into the camera while…
News COVID-19 has forced an edtech paradigm shift September 16th, 2020 As more and more colleges weigh their options for adding online education in the fall, one online ed company is reaping the benefits of the…
News Rethinking online education with virtual event platforms September 15th, 2020 The escalation and global impact of COVID-19 catalyzed a sudden shift to the university experience as we know it. By March 2020, 14 million students…
News 3 ways IoT connectivity helps ensure campus safety September 14th, 2020 As schools and higher education institutions across the U.S. prepare to begin their fall semester, those that are offering fully in-person or hybrid experiences have…
News Stanford’s goal: Better online learning September 14th, 2020 As the COVID-19 pandemic began to surge in March, Stanford undergraduates quickly vacated the campus, with their courses abruptly moving from in-person to online, Stanford…