Stanford’s Cantor Arts Center partners with the Google Art Project, an international online art gallery
More than 100 high-resolution images from the Cantor are now available for in-depth research and examination. Stanford University Press Release
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The Heart of the Digital University
In a Q&A, authors Frank McCluskey and Melanie Winter discuss how the forces that have brought about the current crop of challenges in higher education are the same ones that can help solve them. Campus Technology Full Article
A new wave of educational efforts across Africa exploring the use of ICTs
A delegation of French businesses, together with some of their African partners, visited the World Bank last month to share lessons emerging from their recent efforts to utilize “digital technology to provide quality education for all”, and to outline some of their related upcoming initiatives and activities. The World Bank Blog
Intel on Adaptive Learning
Adaptive learning is hot. The technology, loosely defined as data-driven tools that can help professors mold coursework around individual students’ abilities, is developing at a dizzying pace. And colleges have been hard-pressed to keep up with the mishmash of adaptive offerings from emerging firms. Inside Higher Ed Full Article
New Test for Computers: Grading Essays at College Level
Imagine taking a college exam, and, instead of handing in a blue book and getting a grade from a professor a few weeks later, clicking the “send” button when you are done and receiving a grade back instantly, your essay scored by a software program. The New York Times Full Article
Colleges will soon have free access to the edX platform
Colleges and Universities on June 1 will have access to the source code for what has been dubbed the “Linux of learning” after not-for-profit educational enterprise edX teamed up with Stanford University in making available a host of open-source online learning tools. eCampus News Full Article
APLU’s Institutional Consortium Initiative to aid adoption of personalized learning
These days when you conduct a search on the Internet, search engines can suggest what you might be looking for before you have finished typing your search terms. When you are making an online purchase, the vendor offers tantalizing suggestions for other products you might like to buy. These are now common ways your experiences […]
Designing and Managing Distance Education Systems: Educational Systems
Dr. Farhad (Fred) Saba Founder and Editor, Distance-Educator.com Basic characteristics– These systems consist of a collection of courses that form a discipline supported by an academic department as well as policies and procedures affecting offering such courses and programs. Key personnel– Traditional members of this systems level include vice presidents of academic affairs, deans, […]
An education in Facebook
For some years academics have debated the role in higher education of Facebook, the world’s most extensive social networking site. At first there was enthusiasm—it was a new tool that could be ‘repurposed’ for education; then, as Facebook became more widespread, its use seemed less than opportune. But now, with so many students already engaged […]
Beyond the School’s Boundaries: PoliCultura, a Large-Scale Digital Storytelling Initiative
Technologies are changing the way we teach and learn in many respects. A relevant and not yet fully explored aspect is that they can support, even entice, students and teachers to go beyond the school boundaries, in spatial and temporal terms. Teachers and learners can keep in touch and work together, when they are not […]
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