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This paper begins with a young British woman – Sophie – and her interpretation of the customized advertising and news she encounters on the social networking and search platforms she accesses via her mobile phone. The paper adopts Sophie as a provocation for identifying and thinking through a range of issues that arise from these […]
Current pedagogical practices have seen the rapid spread of technological tools that carry out tasks on behalf of the learner; we use the term technological proxy to refer to these tools. A popular technological proxy used by students worldwide is a text-matching software called Turnitin. Turnitin alerts users to sections of an assignment that appear […]
Last week I wrote a piece where I hypothesized that the way to understand online learning and business schools is through the lens of brands. I argued that for top business schools, online education is about defending and evolving their brand positions, and about leveraging existing brands to scale. In this post, I look a […]
Here are six reasons why the 30-year-old WGU is a disruptive university eCampus News
Jonathan A. Poritz warns that colleges and universities should not rush too quickly to embrace the new technology for distributed public ledgers on the internet. Inside Higher Ed
Several Ivy League universities offer online degrees at the graduate level — but few have ventured into online undergraduate degrees. The University of Pennsylvania could lead the way. The University of Pennsylvania announced Tuesday that it plans to launch a completely new, online bachelor’s degree in applied arts and sciences. Inside Higher Ed
Hoboken, N.J—September 13, 2018—John Wiley and Sons Inc. (NYSE:JWa) (NYSE:JWb), a global leader in education and scholarly research; Publons, the world’s largest peer review platform; and ScholarOne, the leading manuscript submission system, today announced the launch of the scholarly industry’s first scalable open peer review workflow. Academic journals have faced a number of practical difficulties […]
ProctorU, the world’s largest online proctoring and identity management company, announced today the release of Live+, the latest version of its live online proctoring solution. ProctorU Live+ is the first proctoring solution to layer artificial intelligence (AI) behind live proctoring providing enhanced behavior monitoring and security for every exam. ProctorU
Hoboken, NJ. (September 4, 2018) – Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota, a private, non-profit Lasallian Catholic educational institution, and Wiley Education Services, a division of Wiley that provides tailored services and technology solutions to higher education institutions, are pleased to announce a 10-year extension of their existing partnership. The extension will run through 2029 and […]
When you can bring huge numbers of students together with lots of well-branded universities and global enterprises seeking a highly skilled workforce, could those linkages be strong enough to forge a new future for massive open online courses? Campus Technology