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Today [August 23, 2013], President Obama traveled to the University at Buffalo, the State University of New York to announce his plan to combat the soaring costs of higher education. The speech, the first stop on a two-day college affordability bus tour, is a part of his broader initiative to secure a better bargain for […]
Kaplan’s fortunes are looking up. The education company no longer has to pick up the slack for The Washington Post, the venerable newspaper and loss leader that Kaplan’s corporate owner, the Washington Post Co., just sold off. Even better, Kaplan is back in the black itself after years of tumbling enrollments and profits, which were […]
The purpose of this literature review was to compile and analyze the research that has been conducted on parents’ use of the Internet and determine what we know about how parents use the Internet in everyday life. A comprehensive literature review focusing on studies that have asked parents about their Internet use was conducted to […]
The WICHE Cooperative for Education Technologies (WCET) has partnered with Sage Road Solutions LLC, Mozilla, and Blackboard, Inc. to explore the possibilities of digital badges through — what else? — a MOOC. eCampus News Full Article
David Willetts, universities and science minister, talks at length about the potential for massive open online courses (Moocs) to change the way higher education is delivered. There then follows a question and answer session featuring UK university employees. The session is chaired by Anthony McClaran, chief executive of the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education, […]
The Lumina Foundation is putting $2.3 million behind a growing effort to reduce the regulatory burden on institutions that offer online courses to students across state lines, according to the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education. Inside Higher Ed Full Article
Legislation in California originally aimed at getting state colleges to award credit for massive open online courses and other offerings from nonuniversity providers has been shelved for at least a year. Wired Campus Full Article
July 31, 2013 Contact: David Doyle 518-320-1311 New York City — State University of New York Chancellor Nancy L. Zimpher and the presidents of SUNY’s four university centers today joined higher education colleagues nationally in a call for Congress and President Barack Obama to close the “innovation deficit” – the widening gap between needed and […]
More Australians are attending university than at any time in the past 150 years, but most now struggle to live on incomes that are below the poverty line while their levels of debt have soared by almost 30% in the past six years. University World News Full Article
Pittsburgh is a great place to talk about technological innovation. Just yesterday, I visited KDKA, home of the first commercial radio broadcast in the United States way back in 1920. That innovative spirit infuses the Pittsburgh of today. The telestroke program at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center is saving lives. Tech leaders like Apple […]
