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4 octobre 2014

LinkedIn Flexes Its Search Engine Muscle, Adds College-Finding Tools For Students

By . Last year, LinkedIn widened the net for potential users when it started to allow high schoolers to join its social network for professionals, and today it’s launching a clutch of features that it hopes will get them to stick around a while longer: three new tools — Decision Boards, University Outcome Rankings and University Finder — focus on college-bound students who are deciding where to apply, what to study and people who might give them some useful advice on the way. More...

4 octobre 2014

3 Things Higher Education Should Know about Disruptive Innovation

By . Online learning presents both an opportunity and a challenge as technology shakes up higher education. A professor speaking at the EDUCAUSE higher education conference in Orlando, Fla., said he considered a group case study debate in the Harvard Business School as a safe zone that couldn't be disrupted. But he was wrong. More...

4 octobre 2014

For-profit school plans to cut cost of college degree in half

By Alex Friedrich. In the for-profit college sector, bachelor's degrees often cost students two to three times the price of those offered at state universities. Rasmussen College aims to eliminate that competitive advantage with a business degree that could cost less than those offered at its public counterparts. More...

4 octobre 2014

Maximizing the ROI of intellectual property

University Business LogoBy Chris Nicholson. Universities widely consider the revenue behind intellectual property to be a secondary concern. But even for the noble academic, there are dollars on the table. In terms of making money from inventions, New York University does pretty well. In 2013 it earned $214 million from intellectual property (IP) created through research, primarily in the schools of medicine and engineering and in the departments of computer science and physics. More...

4 octobre 2014

Trademarks: Easy money for higher education?

University Business LogoBy Chris Nicholson. It's not scholarly material, but it generates $4.6 billion for institutions every year. While trademark would not generally be considered scholarly material that is serving the public good, the $4.6 billion a year it generates for institutions does help them remain more healthy and visible. More...

4 octobre 2014

COPIA adds major publishers to growing list of higher ed content

University Business LogoBy Stefanie Botelho. COPIA Interactive, creator of one of the most robust, independent, full-featured digital content platforms and college digital bookstore sites, today announced relationships with seven additional publishers of higher-education textbooks and content. More...

4 octobre 2014

SEM solutions offer modern tools for student engagement

University Business LogoBy Stefanie Botelho. Jenzabar, Inc., a leading provider of software, services and strategies for higher education, announced updates to Jenzabar’s portfolio of strategic enrollment management solutions. With heightened competition to recruit and retain the right student, Jenzabar’s Enrollment, Recruitment and Retention CRMs provide the modern tools to enrollment and persistence goals. More...

4 octobre 2014

SAP, customers plan joint cloud sis project to simplify higher ed

University Business LogoBy Stefanie Botelho. Workday, Inc. (NYSE: WDAY), a leader in enterprise cloud applications for finance and human resources, today announced the availability of Workday Student Recruiting, a mobile-first application that modernizes the way higher education institutions prospect and recruit students to better meet specific admission objectivesSAP SE (NYSE: SAP) today announced at EDUCAUSE 2014 that it plans to cooperate with the University of Kentucky, Northern Kentucky University and other higher education customers to reinvent the proven student information system (SIS) design as a simple, easy-to-use platform for student interaction, engagement and collaboration. The transformation is planned to lead to an SIS that allows students to track their classes and degree requirements on the mobile device of their choice, alongside fellow students in a social environment on SAP HANA® Cloud Platform. More...

4 octobre 2014

I Just Came To Say Ello

http://www.insidehighered.com/sites/default/server_files/styles/large/public/CRW.jpgBy Lee Skallerup Bessette. There’s a new social media space up and running called Ello.co. It’s currently by invitation only, says that it values your privacy and won’t ever show you ads. Of course, it still tracks you and there’s no way to block users who might be abusive, and they have venture capital money invested in them so they already have an exit strategy. Read more...
4 octobre 2014

The Future of Higher Education

By Steven Mintz. With a number of leading for-profits beset by legal and financial woes, enrollment in online education leveling off, and MOOCs off the front pages, one might reasonably conclude that the threats to higher ed posed by what was hailed as “disruptive innovation” have abated. More...

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