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Testing firms are offering new ways to measure what students learn in college. Their next generation of assessments is billed as an add-on – rather than a replacement – to the college degree. But the tests also give graduates something besides a transcript to send to a potential employer. Inside Higher Ed Full Article
Recent headlines from places as diverse as Kenya (“6,000 primary schools picked for free laptop project”) and California (“Los Angeles plans to give 640,000 students free iPads”) are just two announcements among many which highlight the increasing speed and scale by which portable computing devices (laptops, tablets) are being rolled out in school systems all […]
Legislation in California originally aimed at getting state colleges to award credit for massive open online courses and other offerings from nonuniversity providers has been shelved for at least a year. Wired Campus Full Article
LINCOLN, Nebraska — The University of Nebraska continues to significantly expand its online education options. Mary Niemiec, who leads NU’s distance education program, says the number of credit hours generated by students only in the distance program grew 12 percent to 57,000 last school year. The Republic Full Article
July 31, 2013 Contact: David Doyle 518-320-1311 New York City — State University of New York Chancellor Nancy L. Zimpher and the presidents of SUNY’s four university centers today joined higher education colleagues nationally in a call for Congress and President Barack Obama to close the “innovation deficit” – the widening gap between needed and […]
Sebastian Thrun has worn many hats in the tech world: Stanford research professor, founder of Google’s X Labs, where he oversaw the development of self-driving cars and Google Glass, and, most recently, passionate advocate for MOOCs—or massive open online courses—through Udacity, the online education startup he cofounded and runs (see “The Most Important Education Technology […]
Career Education Corp. has begun one of higher education’s broadest experiments with adaptive learning. Institutions in the for-profit chain have powered more than 300 online course sections with the emerging technology, and enrollments in those courses have topped 11,000 students. Inside Higher Ed Full Article
More Australians are attending university than at any time in the past 150 years, but most now struggle to live on incomes that are below the poverty line while their levels of debt have soared by almost 30% in the past six years. University World News Full Article
For many students, just starting a research project can be the tallest hurdle standing in the way of completing one. Nearly sixty percent of students at Harvard University who say they plan to do research projects end up graduating without actually doing so. eCampus News Full Article
Pittsburgh is a great place to talk about technological innovation. Just yesterday, I visited KDKA, home of the first commercial radio broadcast in the United States way back in 1920. That innovative spirit infuses the Pittsburgh of today. The telestroke program at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center is saving lives. Tech leaders like Apple […]