By Meris Stansbury - . These are just two major trends technology analysts from IEEE Computer Society, and education analysts from Eduventures, say will shape higher education in 2015. More...
11 janvier 2015
15 higher-ed technology predictions for 2015
Higher education must change to reflect shifting student demographics
By Jamie P. Merisotis. The profile of today’s college-going population looks much different than it did decades ago, when the average student was a fresh-faced 18-year-old moving directly from high school to campus. Students today are older, more experienced in work, and more socioeconomically and racially diverse than their peers of decades past. More...
Professors learn to adapt to today's students
By . Today's college students don't learn the same way as those in the past, and professors need to adapt to keep them engaged, according to speakers at a Teaching and Learning Symposium hosted Wednesday by Illinois State University's Center for Teaching, Learning and Technology. Spring semester classes don't start until Monday, but a few hundred of their professors were in “class,” learning about and sharing ideas for better teaching. More...
Purdue partners with edX
By Stefanie Botelho. Purdue University will partner with global leader edX, the nonprofit learning destination founded by MIT and Harvard, through a two-year agreement to begin offering a lineup of selected Purdue courses to anyone anytime with an Internet connection. More...
McGraw-Hill releases new SmartBook for higher ed
By Stefanie Botelho. At CES 2015, McGraw-Hill Education introduced the newest version of SmartBook, the company's adaptive reading platform, which helps students study more effectively and efficiently by guiding them through a personalized study experience that continually adapts to their needs and focuses their attention on what they need to learn the most. More...
CampusBooks.com’s new “Buy vs. Rent” tool launches
By Stefanie Botelho. CampusBooks.com, a leading textbook price comparison website, announces their new “Buy vs. Rent” price prediction tool, an industry first, that helps students decide with confidence whether they should buy or rent based on current price and future estimated value. In a recent CampusBooks.com survey conducted by Campbell Rinker, eighty-five percent of students purchase textbooks online but nearly two in five students (39 percent) feel they get “poor” value selling their books at the end of a semester. More...
Let's abolish West Point
By Stefanie Botelho. Many pundits have suggested that the Republicans’ midterm gains were fueled by discontent not merely with the president or with the (improving) state of the economy, but with government in general and the need to fund its programs with taxes. Indeed, the Republican Party of recent decades, inspired by Ronald Reagan’s exhortation to “starve the [government] beast,” has been anti-tax and anti-government. Government programs, as many of their thinkers note, primarily exist to perpetuate their own existence. At the very least, they have to justify that existence. More...
Statement on the U.S.-Mexico bilateral forum on higher ed
By Stefanie Botelho. FOBESII builds on longstanding cooperation among our governments, the private sector and academic institutions, including in such areas as the Fulbright-Garcia Robles program, EducationUSA educational advising services and language instruction. It complements President Obama’s 100,000 Strong in the Americas initiative, which seeks to increase student mobility between the United States and the countries of the Western Hemisphere, including Mexico. More...
Move to simplify federal student aid application form gains traction
By Stefanie Botelho. Donnaldo Escobedo knows that the key to his future lies in college and that the key to college lies in obtaining financial aid. More...
Rapid Insight creates predictive modeling online education series
By Stefanie Botelho. Rapid Insight Inc., the leading provider of easy to use predictive analytic and data blending software, announced the rollout of its predictive modeling educational video series. The free series was designed to walk an individual through the key elements of predictive modeling and to provide insights and strategies for successful implementation of a predictive modeling project. More...
