By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Sketching a Process for Sharing / Getting Feedback on Certification Drafts
Alan Levine, CogDogBlog, 2016/07/14
I am not even remotely convinced that creating a 'Creative Commons Certification' is a good idea either as a means of education or promotion, but it's not my call and of course the organization can do what it wants. Of more interest to me here is the process of getting people worldwide to collaborate on the creation of the certification draft. More...
Mobile phone platform set to enhance university access
By Maina Waruru. Prospective students with smartphones will soon be able to access and undertake degree programmes from anywhere in the world under an innovative new distance learning initiative offered by a Kenyan private university and a United States company. Read more...
Building a Common Technology Vision
Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. The most effective IT leaders solve institutional problems, not simply IT problems. Their success relies on a shared understanding with institutional leaders on how technology can advance the institutional mission. More...
Higher ed prepares for the Internet of Things
Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. Devices will talk to other devices on campus. Here’s how to get ready. While little pockets of IoT are springing up in higher ed—both in the form of institution- and student-owned devices—campuswide installations are predicted to be a few years away. More...
Georgia Tech exec: Tech key to answering higher ed ‘triple threat’
Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. Georgia Tech Center for 21st Century Universities Executive Director Richard DeMillo told Campus Technology 2016 attendees that technology will soon govern how colleges and universities are operated. More...
More Than a Million Syllabuses at Your Fingertips
Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. By measuring the number of times a text appears on different syllabuses, OSP calculates a “teaching score.” The more a text appears, the higher the score is. More...
How much are Georgia college students saving on textbooks?
Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. Efforts to cut college costs are paying off for Georgia students. Students in Georgia’s public University System saved the most money of any school or school system on textbooks last year through an open publishing program known as OpenStax, a Rice University-based publisher. More...
Using educational technology to enhance student learning
Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. Improving educational delivery is a core focus of MIT, and also a priority for training new generations of teachers in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE). More...
Machine-Learning Algorithm Combs the Darknet for Zero Day Exploits, and Finds Them
Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. The first machine-based search of online hacker marketplaces identifies over 300 significant cyberthreats every week. In February 2015, Microsoft identified a critical vulnerability in its Windows operating system that potentially allowed a malicious attacker to remotely control the targeted computer. More...
MIT Software Greatly Simplifies Tough Database Querying
Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. New software from researchers at MIT could make even the most complex databases easier for non-experts to use. More...