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I have been running into the same scenario a lot recently: I interview a millenial startup founder and immediately feel like I have done nothing with my life. Take Christina Nanfeldt. She is majoring in Entrepreneurship at George Washington University (GW), and because the school doesn’t actually have a major for it, she has created […]
WASHINGTON, Feb. 4, 2014 – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that the Obama Administration is investing in rural telecommunications equipment to help expand access to education, create jobs and improve health care in 25 states. The Prairie Star Full Article
Third time isn’t necessarily the charm for massive open online course instructors, but through a process of trial and error, some faculty members at Stanford University say their MOOCs are living up to (some of) the potential promised two years ago. Inside Higher Ed Full Article
The University of the People, an unusual online institution in which students pay no tuition and faculty members volunteer, has been accredited, The New York Times reported. Officials at the university have predicted that accreditation could lead to rapid growth. The university was accredited by the Distance Education and Training Council. The university’s founder described […]
Mobile communication technologies (MCTs) pose new opportunities and challenges to university governance. Not only are the devices widespread, they have particular capabilities and constantly changing uses which makes any governing of them difficult. Furthermore most devices are individually owned. Thus universities are unable to directly control how they are used but do have a duty […]
This study examined predictors of students’ intentions to access face-to-face (f2f) or online options for lectures and tutorials in a buffet-style blended learning 2nd-year psychology statistics course (N = 113; 84% female). Students were aged 18 to 51 years (M = 23.16; SD = 6.80). Practical and technological predictors, along with attitudinal and motivational factors drawn from the expectancy […]
Leaders of key committees in the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, the Acting Under Secretary of Education and the chair of the U.S. Department of Education (USDE) National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity addressed plenary sessions at the Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA) 2014 Annual Conference, held January 27-29 in Washington, […]
Unisa will host the 26th World Conference of the International Council for Open and Distance Education (ICDE), to be held for the first time in Africa. “This is an extraordinary and out-of-the-box opportunity,” said ICDE Secretary General, Gard Titlestad. Speaking following a successful two-day workshop at Unisa, where the conference details were deliberated, he described Unisa […]
Dennis Tenen, an assistant professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia, has an unusual background for a humanities scholar. An émigré from the former Soviet state of Moldova, he has a doctorate in comparative literature from Harvard as well as a software design prize from his former employer, Microsoft. Now he is using the […]
Communication is an indispensable part of international cooperation and it requires managing different cultures. Being prepared to see and understand different values, trying to understand contrasting views in a consortium, can decrease the potential of misperception which otherwise may act as a real barrier to cooperation. This is why international cooperation necessitates negotiation across cultures. […]