Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. Google has added two new virtual reality tours to its Google Expeditions Pioneer Program, a VR platform designed specifically for classroom use and available free for schools. More...
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Ramping Up for the 2016 Mobile Explosion With Wave 1 and Wave 2
Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. Lorraine Abraham, CIO and library director of Emory and Henry College (VA), is not taking any chances. More...
How Five EdTech Start-Ups Are Using Big Data To Boost Business Education
Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. Education tech companies including Coursera, edX, Udacity and their b-school and university partners are delving deeper into big data analytics to improve teaching and student learning. More...
EdTech: Mooc Platforms Force B-Schools To Embrace Blended Online/Campus Learning
Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. In biz ed, the New Year brings fresh obstacles for the decades’ old institutions trying to stay relevant in a hyper-connected educational landscape. More...
Turnitin Launches Service Designed to Improve Student Writing
Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. Turnitin, best known in education circles for its technology designed to detect plagiarism in students’ papers, has launched a new tool that aims to improve those students’ papers during the writing process. More...
Google Expeditions Takes Students on VR Tours of Great Barrier Reef, Buckingham Palace
Collaborative classrooms mark wave of the future in higher ed
Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. Student-centered models turn instructors into guides as students investigate for themselves. Student-centered, collaborative classroom design is exploding across higher education and virtually all faculty today understand the difference between labs of computers and classrooms that feature them. More...
EdTech: Wharton Launches Big Data, Entrepreneurship Moocs With Silicon Valley’s Coursera
Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. Pennsylvania’s Wharton School has announced it will offer two new online programs through Silicon Valley-based online learning start-up Coursera. More...
MIT’s 7 Best Free Online Courses: Quantum Physics and Making Video Games
Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. You don’t need to go to Cambridge to enjoy all the fun of a wildly expensive education. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a global leader on open-access education. More...
Who needs a computer science degree these days?
Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. Two candidates apply for a software development position: One has a degree in computer science from a prestigious school. The other is self-taught with several years’ experience under his belt. More...
What low-income students miss using only their phone to get online
By Stefanie Botelho. For many of us, access to the Internet through a variety of means is a given. I can access the Internet through two laptops, a tablet, a smartphone and even both of my game systems, from the comfort of my living room. More...
