United Bus Technology (UBT), a leading IT solution provider for the motorcoach industry, has made it one of its goals to help raise up the next generation of business leaders. Beginning with its recent sponsorship for George Mason University School of Business, UBT intends to bring the real-world business experience to the classroom. More...

When students can transfer smoothly from community colleges to four-year institutions, students, families and taxpayers realize the benefits of incredible cost savings as well as the economic and social returns that come from earning a bachelor’s degree. More...

The LMS is dead, not unlike God: thoughts on the NGDLE
Jim Groom, bavatuesdays, 2017/07/18
Jim Groom and Brian Lamb are working on a position paper challenging traditional models of higher education. This is Groom's contribution, which he sets out in the context of the EDUCAUSE Next Generation Digital Learning Environment (NGDLE), which he notes, was the subject of  an entire issue of EDUCAUSE Review. More...

The New Class of Digital Leaders
Pierre Peladeau, Mathias Herzog, Olaf Acker, Strategy+Business, 2017/07/06

Does this sound familiar: "ad hoc digital initiatives spread throughout a large organization, lacking central oversight; a traditional culture that resists change; a gap in the talent required; and legacy systems and structures that threaten to derail their ambitions?" The role of a chief digital officer (CDO) is to make this mélangework cooperatively. More...