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Make sure to mark your calendars for the 2014 UPCEA 99th Annual Conference held in Miami, FL – March 26 – 28, 2014! Competency-based education, MOOCs, internationalization, new business models, and emerging markets. For professional, continuing, and online educators, the “new normal” is anything but new. We have always operated in a dynamic environment marked […]
The Open University has ended its six-and-a-half-year affiliation with the University Alliance mission group. Times Higher Education Full Article
Proponents of online learning often use train metaphors to describe its growing impact on the educational landscape. Those of us who teach at two-year colleges, especially, are constantly encouraged, prodded, hectored, cajoled—and sometimes even ordered—to get on board. Otherwise, we’re told, we’re likely to be run over. The Chronicle of Higher Education Full Article
Higher education institutions dealing with ongoing budgetary and staffing challenges are looking to create greater efficiency and cost-effectiveness in their operations. One intriguing option on this front is implementing an enterprise content management (ECM) system as a shared service. This Center for Digital Education strategy paper, sponsored by Laserfiche, takes a look at the advantages […]
The Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, will soon conduct examinations online to minimise any chances of fraud, cheating or manipulation of the system. The first such test will be conducted for the recruitment of clerks soon, sources said. Hindustan Times
The Federal Communications Commission voted 3-0 today to release a plan for overhauling the E-rate program for public review, an initial step in what many education advocates hope will produce sweeping upgrades to the technological speed and capabilities of the nation’s schools. Education Week Full Article
E-reader use is on the rise, and the textbook market is shifting toward customizable digital products. Are students ditching print in favor of electronic alternatives for their academic reading? A forthcoming small study from the City University of New York asked that question and found that, like previous generations, at least some Millennials still prefer […]
The storing, management, and security of Big Data is of paramount importance to colleges and universities, with many schools using the reams of student data to stem dropout rates and identify at-risk students, among other uses. eCampus News Full Article
After two semesters of experimentation, San Jose State University has decided to take a “breather” in a project aimed at determining whether Udacity, a Silicon Valley-based company that specializes in massive open online courses, can help the university deliver credit-bearing online courses. The Chronicle of Higher Education Full Article