EDUCAUSE 2013 conference roundup
The 2013 EDUCAUSE conference featured more than 250 exhibitors and nearly 7,500 registered attendees discussing everything from MOOCs to data security to social media, along with other educational…
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Restoring the ‘American dream’ with online learning
Paul J. LeBlanc, the president of Southern New Hampshire University, thinks the American dream is dying. Or, at any rate, it's a dream that's moving to other countries.…
Is Big Data too ‘messy’ for higher education?
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.…
MOOC: ‘Every letter is negotiable’
What's in a name? Or, more accurately, what's in an acronym? Lots, it turns out, and every letter can have different meanings. That was the question at the…
Key campus technology challenges ‘no longer about IT’
The top challenges facing campus technology leaders today “are no longer about IT,” Casey Green, founding director of The Campus Computing Project, told attendees of the 2013 EDUCAUSE…
Computing on campus: An ‘accidental revolution’?
In 1981, Robert Gillepsie, the now-retired vice provost for computing at the University of Washington published a report stating that, "higher ed has been slow to respond to…
Income gap developing between campus IT professionals
Chief information officers on college campuses have seen their annual income increase by 1.4 times more than the lowest paid IT staffers, and head technologists saw more than…
EDUCAUSE 2013 to explore MOOCs, Big Data, and more
Educause's 2013 conference kicks off Tuesday, and eCampus News will be in Anaheim, Cal., bringing you the latest news, developments, and innovations from the annual instructional technology gathering.…
New report predicts MOOCs, tablets will boom
Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and tablet computing are two technologies expected to see mainstream use in the next year or less, according to the 2013 New Media…
EDUCAUSE 2012 gathers influential higher ed IT experts
The EDUCAUSE Annual Conference runs Nov. 6-9, 2012, in Denver, Colo., and is one of the premier gatherings for higher education IT professionals. The conference also will broadcast…