Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. Students in an online data science program offered by the University of Wisconsin (UW) may soon get an opportunity to use virtual reality headsets to interact with mountains of data. More...

Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. The company makes Beam, a mobile videoconferencing device that can be operated remotely with a computer or a phone. More...

Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. Chromebooks have surpassed sales of Mac laptops in the United States for the first time ever. And that doesn’t surprise me. Because roughly a year ago I made the same switch. More...

Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. What is the blockchain? It is a distributed database of computers that maintains records and manages transactions. More...

Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. Our country is catching up in global trends when it comes to Training and Development (T&D) practices. This was captured in the recent survey conducted by the Philippine Society of Training and Development (PSTD) Foundation, Inc. where companies from different industries said they treat T&D as one of the business priorities by making it a distinct organization thus the focus and specialization and by allocating budget for T&D initiatives. More...

Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. Just as different students need to learn in different ways, we believe that different faculty (and other educational professionals) will learn best through different forms. More...

Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. Today’s institutions need to adopt new models to stay competitive. They need to focus on outcomes, cost-effectiveness, and responsiveness. More...

Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. Finding a textbook in Barbara McNulty’s communications class requires some sleuthing. That’s because the weighty volumes are stacked at the bottom of a dark closet and haven’t been used in 10 years. More...

Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. Worldwide PC shipments are expected to decline by 73 percent year over year in 2016, according to a recent forecast by the International Data Corporation’s (IDC) “Worldwide Quarterly PC Tracker.” The outlook continues to predict progressively smaller declines through 2017, followed by stable volume in 2018. More...

Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. US Army-funded researchers at MIT believe an optical equivalent of a “sonic boom” created using graphene could make chips a million times faster than they are today. More...