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ICDE announces a call for papers for its online journal Open Praxis. The theme of the relaunch issue, to be published in October 2012, is Openness in higher education, and the deadline for submissions is 9 July. Research articles, shorter innovative practice articles and reviews are invited. ICDE Full Announcement
Students learn just as much in a course that’s taught partly online as they would in a traditional classroom, but such courses won’t reach their potential until they are both easier for faculty members to customize and more fun for students, according to a report released today. Wired Campus Full Article
School districts should provide a minimum of 100 megabits per second (Mbps) of bandwidth for every 1,000 students and staff members within the next two years, and federal lawmakers should provide more funding to help make this happen, according to a report released May 21 by the State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA) eSchool News […]
n a study spanning six public universities, students taught statistics mainly through software learned as much as peers taught primarily by humans. And the robots got the job done quicker. Inside Higher Ed Full Article
Math is dull and boring. That’s what Edward Solis thought. He asked his teacher at the School of Global Studies in L.A., “When am I ever going to use this kind of math in life?” “I was good at math, but I always found it boring, so I wasn’t really into math,” Solis said. Then […]
SAFARI Montage to become the primary provider of streaming video from PBS A new agreement between the Public Broadcasting Service and SAFARI Montage will make SAFARI the main provider of PBS video content streamed to schools—an arrangement that could shake up the market for school video streaming services. eSchool News Full Article
During the first-ever Digital Learning Day, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and Federal Communications Commission chief Julius Genachowski unveiled an ambitious plan earlier this year to get schools to switch from print to digital textbooks by 2017. Education Week Full Article
Dr. Saba: With an educational background in public administration and political science, how did you become interested in business development, product marketing and thought leadership? Mr. Lind: I started my career in politics and policy: working on Federal electoral campaigns, then on Capitol Hill and then to public policy consulting. All throughout my policy […]
The European Union is set to throw the weight of its £64 billion ($102 billion) research funding program behind open-access publishing, Times Higher Education has learned. Inside Higher Ed Full Article
Some assume that online education is not a suitable medium for courses that rely on the Socratic Method. But the philosophy professors at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro are skeptical. Inside Higher Ed Full Article