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SDSU, the state’s land grant research institution, is seeking a new Director of Continuing and Extended Education to exercise comprehensive strategic leadership as it deepens and expands its historic commitment to non-traditional education. CCE at SDSU comprises both fully online and hybrid programs, as well as face to face instruction at the institution’s main campus […]
For the past decade, the primary use of recordings in higher education has been to make live lectures available to students for review (lecture capture). However, with the rise of podcasting and the increased focus on interaction as a means to engage students, current web-based lecture technologies (WBLT) are capable of much more than simply […]
There’s been much recent talk about schools going all-digital–from Arne Duncan’s call to actionto the backlash from educators–but implementing digital resources is no easy task. During a recent stakeholder forum, however, leaders and experts came together to address how to make this shift into a reality. eSchool News Full Article
ICDE extends a warm welcome to Eurasian Open Institute, Moscow, Russia as a new ICDE member institution. International Council for Open and Distance Education (ICDE) Full Article
Princeton and Stanford can rest easy now that Minnesota higher-education officials have backed off threats to track down dozens of universities like them for offering free online courses in their state without permission. Wired Campus Full Article
High schools are creating student-run help desks to deal with larger numbers of mobile devices. A thousand miles apart, Niles West High School in Skokie, Ill., and Burlington High School in Massachusetts each have student teams handle problems with mobile devices. The 20 tech leaders at Niles West High School support 3,600 netbooks at two […]
Sebastian Thrun, co-founder of Udacity, Vice President/Fellow at Google, wowed the audience on Wednesday, Oct, 11, with his keynote address, “Democratizing Higher Education.” 18th Annual Sloan-C International Conference on Online Presentation
It’s the latest snapshotof the growing burden of student debt and it’s another discouraging one: Two-thirds of the national collegeclass of 2011 finished school with loan debt, and those who borrowed walked off the graduation stage owing on average $26,600 — up about 5 percent from the class before. eCampus News Full Article
Online degree programs’ reputations have taken a beating, thanks to unscrupulous diploma mills and a lack of respect from HR pros. That perception may finally be changing, but it still pays to be careful. Time Magazine U.S. Full Article
REDMOND, Wash. — Oct. 19, 2012 — Microsoft Corp. today announced new academic institutions and medical schools that are adopting Microsoft Office 365 for education, the company’s next-generation cloud productivity service, to improve communication and collaboration across campuses while helping meet security, privacy and other regulatory requirements as mandated by the U.S. Health Insurance Portability […]