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In a Q&A, authors Frank McCluskey and Melanie Winter discuss how the forces that have brought about the current crop of challenges in higher education are the same ones that can help solve them. Campus Technology Full Article
A delegation of French businesses, together with some of their African partners, visited the World Bank last month to share lessons emerging from their recent efforts to utilize “digital technology to provide quality education for all”, and to outline some of their related upcoming initiatives and activities. The World Bank Blog
Adaptive learning is hot. The technology, loosely defined as data-driven tools that can help professors mold coursework around individual students’ abilities, is developing at a dizzying pace. And colleges have been hard-pressed to keep up with the mishmash of adaptive offerings from emerging firms. Inside Higher Ed Full Article
Imagine taking a college exam, and, instead of handing in a blue book and getting a grade from a professor a few weeks later, clicking the “send” button when you are done and receiving a grade back instantly, your essay scored by a software program. The New York Times Full Article
Colleges and Universities on June 1 will have access to the source code for what has been dubbed the “Linux of learning” after not-for-profit educational enterprise edX teamed up with Stanford University in making available a host of open-source online learning tools. eCampus News Full Article
These days when you conduct a search on the Internet, search engines can suggest what you might be looking for before you have finished typing your search terms. When you are making an online purchase, the vendor offers tantalizing suggestions for other products you might like to buy. These are now common ways your experiences […]
Twitter Chats seem to be all the rage on the microblogging site. Vendors, social media experts, regular users, customers, analysts, journalists and just about anyone can join in on the conversations, which cover a variety of topics. There are Twitter Chats on any number of subject areas, but in the technology industry, they seem to […]
By: Dr. Farhad (Fred) Saba Founder, Distance-Educator.com Industrialization has been a feature of distance education for many years. Otto Peters, a pioneering theorist, explained when technology is used to reach students in mass, education assumes industrial characteristics, such as, standardization of services and mass production of educational products (Keegan 1994). To the extent that correspondence […]
Alumni of elite colleges are accustomed to getting requests for money from their alma mater, but the appeal that sent to thousands of graduates on Monday was something new: a plea to donate their time and intellects to the rapidly expanding field of online education. The New York Times Full Article
Faculty union officials in California worry professors who agree to teach free online classes could undermine faculty intellectual property rights and collective bargaining agreements. Inside Higher Ed Full Article