By Stefanie Botelho. QLess, the company behind the leading mobile technology that eliminates physical lines, today announced that its dynamic wait experience solution has been integrated into Mosaic™, a mobile app platform from Blackboard, a global leader in education technology that is dedicated to improving the student learning experience. More...
College presidents join effort to improve success for Latino students
By Stefanie Botelho. To mark its 10 years of service, Excelencia in Education announced the launch of a new effort to engage college and university presidents across America. Presidents for Latino Student Success enlists institutional leaders throughout the country to make America stronger by increasing degree attainment for Latino students and all students. More...
Cengage Learning and Celebrus Technologies partner
By Stefanie Botelho. Cengage Learning, a leading global educational content, technology and services company for the higher education and K-12, professional and library markets, today announced a partnership with Celebrus Technologies, a provider of tagging-free multi-channel digital big data software that captures rich behavioral data to understand how customers are interacting with the company’s digital service offerings. As the first major US publisher to work with Celebrus, this partnership puts Cengage Learning at the forefront of the industry in understanding how big data can inform student product usage, learning objectives and learning outcomes. More...
Big data and learning analytics
By Avi Asher-Schapiro. By now, big data and learning analytics are familiar buzz words for anyone working in higher education. Thanks to student information systems (SIS) like Banner and Blackboard, universities collect an ever increasing volume of data about campus life and student performance. But knowing what data to collect and leveraging it for better outcomes is not always easy. More...
I. Myself. Deeply. Regret. What. Happened.
By Tracy Mitrano. Those are Monica Lewinsky’s words in summary about her “affair” with President William Jefferson Clinton. In a Vanity Fair article, due out tomorrow, she claims that the Tyler Clementi incident – no, let me rephrase, the suicide of 18 year old freshman college student, Tyler Clementi, due to the humiliation, one assumes, from the exposure of his same-sex experience filmed by his not-thinking-it-through-to-say-the-least and oh-how-that-young-man-and-his-family-have-paid-for-the-lapse-in-thought-too -- drove him to take his life by forcing a fall from the George Washington Bridge. Exposure amplified by the Internet. Read more...
Process not Product
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Writing Your Way Around the Web
Here are my top picks for writing, publishing, and posting to the web:
- WordPress - My first experience as a blogger began with the self-hosted version of WordPress back in 2004. Since then, the platform has become the go-to site for writers, bloggers, and content creators. Read more...
Rethinking Accessibility for Online Learning
By Sang-Mook Lee. I am a Korean marine geophysicist who became quadriplegic (spinal cord injury with complete injury on cervical bone number four) as a result of a van rollover accident during a geological field trip in California almost 9 years ago (July 2, 2006). I am completely paralyzed from the neck down. Read more...