Colleges Try to Give Career Advice by Virtual Inkblot Test
A new company is updating the idea of using an inkblot test to help college students choose a career. Wired Campus Full Article
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CHEA President Judith Eaton Interviewed on Degree Mills on Fox News Washington
WASHINGTON – They are colleges in name only, diploma mills, where a degree can be bought and paid for with very little work. These bogus universities lack recognition from any legitimate agency. A FOX 5 investigation discovered some professors at the University of the District of Columbia who claim to have Ph.D.s, got them from […]
End of the Beginning
Senator Harkin’s two-year investigation of for-profit higher education ends, but the policy battle is far from over. What comes next? Inside Higher Education Full Article
New ISTE CEO: It’s time to partner up
Strong leadership to guide policy, and a voice to speak for education stakeholders nationwide, are essential to discussions about school reform, according to the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE)—and this fall, ISTE will turn to a new leader for these in Brian Lewis. eSchool News Full Article
Technology Has Its Place: Behind a Caring Teacher
“What is wrong with higher education? How will technology transform it? What new direction will it take in these difficult times?” I often hear such questions, from both inside and outside the academy. Such questions deserve answers, of course, but they raise another question, one seldom asked: What is college for? This, too, deserves attention, […]
Penn State World Campus summer graduates celebrate two firsts
Two students who will make their first visit to Penn State to pick up diplomas in energy and sustainability policy also will be the first graduates of this online degree The Pennsylvania State University Press Release
The Online Pecking Order ‘Conventional’ online universities consider strategic response to MOOCs
The Online Pecking Order ‘Conventional’ online universities consider strategic response to MOOCs Inside Higher Ed Full Article
Augmented Reality Is Finally Getting Real
As smartphones explode in popularity, augmented reality is starting to move from novelty to utility. MIT Technology Review Full Article
The Future of Higher Education
For a millennium, universities have been considered the main societal hub for knowledge and learning.1 And for a millennium, the basic structures of how universities produce and disseminate knowledge and evaluate students have survived intact through the sweeping societal changes created by technology—the moveable-type printing press, the Industrial Revolution, the telegraph, telephone, radio, television, and […]
Broadband, High-Speed Fiber Networking Infrastructure: A Community College Vision
More data-intensive computing, many-to-many collaborations, and high-bandwidth consuming new media are becoming signposts of the way we work, now and in the future, at every type of higher education institution. Greater connectedness for organizations and individuals alike makes the bold distinctions and segregation between types of institutions and students a thing of the past and […]