Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. Education Minister James Merlino said literacy abilities like reading, writing, speaking and listening would all be assessed. Mr Merlino said it was important to stop children falling through the cracks. More...

Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. Artificial intelligence* is developing much faster than we thought. Just last month, Google’s DeepMind AI beat Lee Sedol, a legendary Go player, at his own game in a defining moment for the industry. More...

Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. Modeled on the Oxbridge tutorial system, SyriaScholar gives small groups of students direct one-on-one interaction with tutors. The brothers used available, open-source software to build the website, which includes a platform for video-conferencing, allowing them to run the two-way tutorials online as well as upload powerpoint presentations that the students can follow during the tutorials. More...

Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. President of APLU, Peter McPherson, writes: “This book about change and reform is written by people who have spent their lives in higher education. Their concerns and proposals come from their deep commitment to our purposes and should be taken seriously by other serious people.” More...

Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. “Worldwide, OERs and MOOCs are being offered free of charge, as a philanthropic and altruistic movement, and as a testing ground for offering effective learning online,” says Dr Yuen Kin-sun, director of the Educational Technology and Publishing Unit at The Open University of Hong Kong. More...

Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. The tangle of data privacy regulation for education is heating up as state and federal lawmakers increasingly consider laws intended to protect students. More...

Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. Rift has arrived. Oculus announced in a blog that it had begun shipping its virtual reality (VR) headset first to those who invested in its idea through Kickstarter. More...

Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. There are many ways of integrating technology in the classroom; ways that do not directly involve the use of computers. Some of the traditional classroom tools have found equivalent technology tools. More...

Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. Higher education leaders are pondering how to make bite-sized, low-cost learning opportunities available to students in different ways. Working adults who change jobs and careers frequently often don’t need to go through an entire degree program to learn different skills. More...

Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. ALISON founder Mike Feerick says global inequality and the skills gap is one of the biggest challenges facing governments, and free online education is one of the most powerful modern tools available to address it. More...