By 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...
By 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...
By 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...
By 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...
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...
By Jonathan Haber. As the Inaugural Visiting Fellow at HarvardX, my mission over the six months while “embedded” with the HX team involves exploring how to maximize the effectiveness of assessments and other student assignments within Harvard’s growing catalog of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). More...
By Matt Reed. In a recent exchange with one of my favorite higher education peeps, I realized that I’ve been stubbing my toe on the same issue for years now. I’m hoping that some very smart readers have found an elegant way around it, the better to spare my theoretical feet. Read more...
By Matt Reed. Most campus-based colleges have some form of a “student activities” or “student life” office. That office runs a slate of programs for students, ranging from co-curricular to extracurricular to just-for-fun. (Rule of thumb: the office that runs “Spring Fling” is Student Life.) The idea is to help students blow off steam, connect with each other, connect with the college, and engage more with the world. Read more...
By Matt Reed. Travel funding is even harder to come by these days than it used to be. In the community college world, that’s saying something. I mention it in light of this piece in the Chronicle about the Aspen Institute’s recommendations for search committees looking for community college presidents. Read more...
By Laura Tropp. I have been rethinking my policy towards participation in class. My policy has always stated that students need to find some way to add to the class discussion. I tell them that they should plan to speak at least once during class. When I observe other faculty teaching, I look for the level and quality of participation in their classes. Read more...
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