EXO U Inc., developer of the newly launched EXO U Digital Education Platform, has entered into a partnership agreement with Proeducacion, a Mexican-based provider of technology solutions for universities. More...
25 ways to strengthen workforce education
The Task Force on Workforce, Job Creation, and a Strong Economy includes representatives from community colleges, the business community, labor groups, public agencies involved in workforce training, K-12 policymakers, and community-based organizations. More...
Back to campus: Top technology trends for the year ahead
By Bob Burwell. It’s back to school time, and IT teams at college campuses nationwide are preparing to handle the onslaught of technology needs of faculty and students alike—but what should IT and admin prioritize. More...
Biggest cloud challenge? Hint: It’s not the technology
By Andrew Barbour. Go ahead and call it: 2015 is the year when higher education finally accepted that the cloud offers advantages its institutions simply can’t match. Gone is the suspicion that the cloud is a Wild West of drive-by FERPA violations and nonexistent security; gone is the fear that schools will lose ownership of their data. More...
Why moving past the SAT is essential in today’s admissions
By Hilda Mejia Abreu and William Sedlacek. In 2013, graduate programs received 1.97 million applications and accepted about 40.5 percent of applicants. The process relies heavily on standardized test scores to vet and decide which applicants to accept. More...
Old texts inspire new thinking about math teaching
By Katherine Long. Central Washington University math professor Dominic Klyve is pioneering a novel new way to teach math — by relying on some of the oldest mathematical texts ever written. More...
Heidelberger Studenten: Schnüffelei von V-Mann an Uni war wohl rechtswidrig
Monatelang hatte ein verdeckter Ermittler der Polizei sich unter linke Studenten in Heidelberg gemischt. Die verklagten daraufhin das Land Baden-Württemberg. Ein Gericht befand nun: Der Spitzeleinsatz verstieß wohl gegen das Gesetz. Mehr...
Personalized Learning is Hard
By Michael Feldstein. Paul Fain has written a really good, nuanced article at IHE covering the update that Essex County College gave of their developmental math adaptive learning pilot at a recent conference in Washington, DC. We did a two–part case study on ECC in our e-Literate TV series). More...
The Fraught Interaction Design of Personalized Learning Products
By Michael Feldstein. David Wiley has a really interesting post up about Lumen Learning’s new personalized learning platform. More...
Inside View Of Blackboard’s Moodle Strategy In Latin America
By Phil Hill. One year ago Blackboard’s strategy for Moodle was floundering. After the 2012 acquisition of Moodlerooms and Netspot, Blackboard had kept its promises of supporting the open source community – and in fact, Blackboard pays much more than 50% of the total revenue going to Moodle HQ[1] – but that does not mean they had a strategy. More...