By Michael Feldstein. David Wiley has a really interesting post up about Lumen Learning’s new personalized learning platform. More...
29 août 2015
29 août 2015
What will learning look like in the future?
Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. When smartphones and tablets become one: the use of apps to deliver the training of the future suggests that as well as overcoming possible cost barriers, old attitudes and connectivity issues, objections around screen size will also go away. More...
29 août 2015
Codeacademy: Turning a Profit when Your Product is Free
Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. A good way to build a large user base is to offer something valuable for free. That’s been the strategy so far behind Codecademy. In just a few short years since its inception in 2011, the company has grown into one of the world’s largest online learning platforms, with more than 24 million users. More...
29 août 2015
Professors at odds over technology’s role in the lecture hall
By Madeline Smith. In the mid-nineties, Mark Morton was one of the first instructors at the University of Winnipeg to offer telecourses for the school, letting students tune in to his English classes via broadcast on a local community channel. Read more...
24 août 2015
US Department of Education: Almost a good idea on ed tech evaluation
By Phil Hill. Richard Culatta from the US Department of Education (DOE, ED, never sure of proper acronym) wrote a Medium post today describing a new DOE initiative to evaluate ed tech app effectiveness. More...
24 août 2015
Survey: Here’s why technology matters to college students
By . According to the results of a new survey from VitalSource Technologies, college students overwhelmingly agree that technology boosts grades, improves their overall learning experience and alleviates costs. More...
24 août 2015
University trials can go paperless with cloud-based EDC
Clinovo is offering its cloud-based clinical research EDC (electronic data capture) system, ClinCapture, for no charge to universities, academic medical centers and other institutional research organizations. More...
24 août 2015
What Higher Ed Jobs Will Robots Be Doing In 2025?
By Joshua Kim. “Many chains are already at work looking for ingenious ways to take humans out of the picture, threatening workers in an industry that employs 2.4 million wait staffers, nearly 3 million cooks and food preparers and many of the nation’s 3.3 million cashiers”. Read more...
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