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WASHINGTON — Two Senate Democrats have found a new way to try to hit for-profit colleges where it hurts, by proposing a ban on the use of revenue from federal financial aid for advertising, marketing and recruitment. The proposed legislation is unlikely to go anywhere this year, and will draw little support from Republicans. But […]
The theme of disrupting higher education was buzzing among hundreds of conference attendees this week at the Education Innovation Summit at Arizona State University.Wired Campus Full Story
As part of efforts to employ technology to enhance the Princeton academic experience and enable faculty to extend their teaching beyond the physical borders of the campus, the University will explore the development of online class materials via the new educational platform Coursera. According to Coursera, Princeton will join Stanford University, the University of Michigan […]
Three significant blows were struck this week for the international cause of achieving open access to scientific research. Neelie Kroes (pictured), vice-president of the European Commission, who is responsible for the Digital Agenda for Europe, has confirmed that the commission is drawing up a proposal to open up access to the results of research funded […]
Princeton University, the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor have teamed up with a for-profit company to offer free versions of their coveted courses this year to online audiences. By doing so, they join a growing group of top-tier universities that are embracing massively open online courses, or MOOCs, as […]
The UNESCO/COL OER Knowledge Cloud will greatly enhance research opportunities and access to knowledge and research on Open Educational Resources and related information by removing barriers, opening up scholarship and making research universally accessible. The OER Knowledge Cloud has been established to identify, collect, preserve and disseminate available documents of enduring value to researchers, industry, […]
Scottsdale, Ariz. — We’re used to personalization on the consumer Web, from book recommendations on Amazon to the news feed on Facebook. But what will it mean for learning as colleges, too, increasingly mine data to shape the student experience? What does educational personalization look like? How finely should technologists try to parse it—down to […]
North Carolina’s classrooms are about to get a lot bigger. Virtual field trips and remote science lessons will be possible with the opening of the Nature Research Center. Across the state, classrooms will be able to connect to the SECU Daily Planet, a three-story multimedia globe that is the expanded N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences’ […]
As 45 states, the District of Columbia, and two territories move from widespread adoption of the Common Core State Standards to implementation, there is a need to appropriately identify and link assets using a shared system of identifiers and a common XML representation. There have been several prior efforts at this. The Council of Chief […]
PLAN TO JOIN US IN KANSAS CITY, MO, SEPTEMBER 17-19, 2012 as distance learning and educational technology leaders return to where it all began 30 years ago. The National University Technology Network is a networking and professional development organization for innovative leaders in the advancement of distance education. This year’s anniversary conference will be hosted […]