By Ashley A. Smith. The Obama administration announces a new $100 million competitive grants program to stimulate the expansion of free community college programs and connect college graduates to in-demand jobs. Read more...
12 mai 2016
12 mai 2016
Beyond Male/Female
By Scott Jaschik. Two national applications will offer applicants the chance to move past the traditional gender binary in classifying themselves. Read more...
12 mai 2016
Class Gift: A New Counselor
By Jake New. For their departing gift to the university, seniors at Penn State created an endowment for the university's counseling center to expand mental health services they found wanting. Read more...
12 mai 2016
All Rights Reserved
By Carl Straumsheim. Decision to grant a publisher the right to print the writings of Aaron Swartz -- viewed by some as a martyr of the open-access movement -- sets off a debate about copyright. Read more...
12 mai 2016
Monitoring the Gatekeepers
By Paul Fain. Obama administration continues to turn up pressure on accreditors, promising in new letter to measure the agencies against their peers and urging more focus on student achievement and troubled colleges. Read more...
12 mai 2016
Le ministère refuse tout tirage au sort en Paces
Par Thibaut Cojean, Orientations. Alors que le rectorat a annoncé la semaine dernière la mise en place d’un tirage au sort en Paces, Thierry Mandon a catégoriquement rejeté cette possibilité. Dans la pratique, il semblerait en fait qu’un tirage au sort n’aurait pas été nécessaire cette année. Voir l'article...
12 mai 2016
Austrade sets target of 110 million MOOC students for Australia by 2025
Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. International Education Minister Richard Colbeck will launch on Saturday a radical plan for Australia to use online technology to grab 10 per cent of the world market in education by 2025, amounting to an astonishing 110 million students. More...
12 mai 2016
A Digital Approach To Education
Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. Online higher education aims to make courses more engaging and interactive for students of all ages. Adult learners in particular have found that online courses fit better with their work and home schedules than showing up on campus two or three nights a week. More...
12 mai 2016
Despite some professors’ discomfort, online ed here to stay
Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. Henry Lucas, a faculty chair at the University of Maryland’s Smith School of Business and author of Technology and the Disruption of Higher Education: Saving the American University, argues faculty must come around to online education to keep their universities alive. More...
12 mai 2016
This Is Your Brain on Podcasts
Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. Storytelling happened, and now scientists have mapped the experience of listening to podcasts, specifically “The Moth Radio Hour,” using a scanner to track brain activity. More...
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