Cars Not Welcome Here
Some colleges make new efforts to discourage students from bringing vehicles to campus. Driving them away can be tough.SOURCE: Inside Higher EdRead the Full Article
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Alternative Sourcing Strategies at Menlo College
As part of revitalizing itself as a Silicon Valley business school, Menlo College tackled its unsatisfactory campus technology support and infrastructure by hiring a new CIO. To address multiple technology issues affecting students, faculty, and staff as quickly as possible, the IT department mixed in-house staffing, outsourcing, and cloud sourcing. In less than two years, […]
Coming Soon: The Death of Accreditation
By: John Hall, CEO and Co-Founder of Greenwood & Hall. He is also an Ed.D. candidate at the University of Southern California Many in higher education and particularly the for-profit sector were expecting the worst from the Department of Education as it handed down its final so-called gainful employment regulations. While far from ideal, several […]
Assessing Retention in Online Learning: An Administrative Perspective
Abstract As the growth of online programs continues to rapidly accelerate, concern over the retention of the online learner is increasing. Educational administrators at institutions offering online courses, those fully online or brick and mortars, are eager to promote student achievement. Retention is critically important, not just for student success, but also for the success […]
Blackboard Launches Pilot for Innovative Approach to Improving Developmental Education
WASHINGTON, June 20, 2011 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ –A group of leading colleges and universities have partnered with Blackboard Inc. (Nasdaq: BBBB) and K12 Inc. (NYSE: LRN) to pilot a new, innovative approach for improving outcomes in developmental education. Studies show nearly 60 percent of community college students and 20 percent of students at four-year colleges […]
New project could improve results from school web searches
Creative Commons, educational publishers have teamed up to make search results more relevant for students and teachersSOURCE: eSchool NewsRead the Full Article
Agreement reached on UW role in state cooperative network
UW-Madison will be able to continue all current networking affiliations, including membership in WiscNet, under an agreement included in Wisconsin’s proposed state budget.SOURCE: University of WisconsinRead the Full Article
You can take it with you
A new system lets you transfer open applications between a computer and a cellphone simply by pointing the phone’s camera at the computer’s screen.SOURCE: MITRead the Full Article
Mobile Teaching Versus Mobile Learning
Higher education historically has focused on instructors teaching rather than students learning, an ineffective approach that could seriously hamper the promise of mobile learning. Successful student learning emerges from active engagement, connection to the students’ prior knowledge, and simulation of real world experiences — all facilitated by engaging learners’ senses through multimedia. Higher education should […]