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Tablets are in, computer labs are out, and the cloud is the new hard drive — these are the interwoven threads upon which college students are hoisting themselves into the future of campus computing. So say technology futurists, those whisperers who strive to interpret for the rest of us the inscrutable “digital natives” who now […]
A $2 million Department of Education Title III grant designed to help institutions of higher education better serve Native American students is going to help Northeastern Oklahoma A&M (NEO) upgrade its distance learning offerings. SOURCE: Campus Technology
Students may covet seats in Stanford’s popular iPhone and iPad application development course, but you don’t need to be in the classroom to take the course.SOURCE: Stanford UniversityRead the Press Release
MINNEAPOLIS, MN – November 9, 2011– PLATO Learning, a leading provider of online education solutions for kindergarten through adult learners, announced today that it is acquiring Educational Options, Inc. (EdOptions™), an award-winning education technology firm based in Falls Church, Va., to enhance its comprehensive portfolio of education solutions. PLATO Learning is backed by leading middle […]
Recent news that South Korea plans to digitize its entire elementary- and secondary-school curriculum by 2015, combined with the declining cost of e-readers and Amazon’s announcement earlier this year that it is selling more e-books than print books, prompts an interesting question: Which traditional campus will be the first to go entirely bookless? Not, of […]
New open educational resource aims to help stakeholders evaluate and share content, learning strategiesSOURCE: eSchool NewsRead the Full Article
Both nonprofit and for-profit colleges profit, usually handsomely, from providing online courses. While aggregated data on cost and revenue are difficult to find, all the recent online-learning business models point to substantial profit margins.SOURCE: The Chronicle of Higher Education Read the Full Article
WASHINGTON — A bill under consideration in Congress could make it easier for federal prosecutors to bring criminal charges against academic libraries for unduly making copyrighted materials available to students, according to a letter sent to lawmakers on Tuesday by a group of influential library associations.SOURCE: Inside Higher EdRead the Full Article