Why are colleges getting free Big Data services?
Many colleges and universities are finding that Big Data analytics services aren't included in the axiom preaching that there's no such thing as a free lunch. Hoping to…
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Howard halts historic online learning initiative
Howard University and Pearson have delayed a partnership that would have made the university’s online learning program the largest out of all historically black colleges and universities in…
Bitcoin tuition payments: Revolution or PR stunt?
A university in England has become the first public institution to accept the digital currency bitcoin as payment for course fees, though the announcement has some skeptics decrying…
College students shifting from consumers to creators
With the help of library “makerspaces” and 3D printers, college students could soon see their role on campus shifting from consumers to creators, a new report said. The…
MOOCs: ‘Cakewalk for some’ and ‘a disaster for others’
The president of Stanford University, a laboratory for massive open online course (MOOC) experimentation, questions the future of MOOCs as key pieces to schools' online education programs. John…
The advantage of learning from MOOC mistakes
When it comes to MOOCs, the University of New Mexico is leapfrogging to the head of the line. By waiting until now to offer its first massive open…
MIT’s Big Data education set to get underway
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology(MIT) is offering its first professional learning course tackling the ins and outs of Big Data, a subject near and dear to educators and…
Educators increasingly wary of online course retention
Online courses have never been more advanced or plentiful, but academic leaders haven’t been as skeptical of the courses in at least a decade, a new report said.…
Education’s ‘connected age’ demands major policy changes
The world in which education operates is changing dramatically and educators and accreditors will need to change too, Diana Oblinger, president and CEO of Educause, said Wednesday at…
The evolution of note taking in the digital classroom
Pen and paper live on in higher education, as note taking has remained very much analog. Technology rules the classroom and lecture hall, as evidenced by campus research…