Administrators and staff at Wayne State University are dedicated to helping students succeed. But accessing student-level data to guide their strategy was challenging. More...
Integrated dashboards link engagement to academic performance
Echo360, in partnership with Instructure, launched a newly integrated analytics solution that will allow faculty to quickly compare course-level data, like attendance and grades, with more granular evidence of real-time student engagement like note-taking, class participation, and collaborating with peers. More...
Hispanic-serving community colleges targets student success
Beginning in Fall of 2017, all 70,000 students enrolled in the Pima Community College District of Tucson, Arizona will have access to Starfish by Hobsons, a technology platform that aims to make it easier to identify academic and career goals, collaborate with advisors and faculty, and make better informed decisions about courses and majors. More...
Akademos, Missouri Valley College partner on textbook affordability
Akademos, Inc., a provider of integrated online bookstores and marketplaces for educational institutions, announced that Missouri Valley College, a private career-oriented liberal arts college, has joined its growing list of partner institutions. More...
New service helps to ensure high-quality online courses
Smart Sparrow, a provider of adaptive learning and learning design, has launched the Learning Design Studio, a team of learning designers, engineers, and UX and graphic designers — with offices in San Francisco and Sydney — who work with educators to transform analog courses into dynamic learning experiences. More...
Effort boosts access to STEM courses, individualized learning
A new collaboration will offer schools science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) programs for students with proven-effective online STEM tools and courses, as well as expert teachers. More...
Internet of Things course launches on Coursera
EIT Digital introduced the Software Architecture for the Internet of Things MOOC, which was developed in cooperation with iMinds. More...
White House funded partnership to train disadvantaged youth for tech jobs
The Software Guild is partnering with LaGuardia Community College in Long Island City, Queens to provide free, high-quality software development education to at-risk youth and underserved populations. The program, known as TechIMPACT, is funded by a $3.9 million grant awarded to LaGuardia by the White House and US Department of Labor‘s TechHire Initiative. More...
Digitization initiative preserves over 100K items in first year
Just one year into its massive digitization initiative, Indiana University has already rescued from ruin more than 100,000 precious audio and video recordings, thanks to a successful collaboration with Memnon Inc., a Sony company. More...
Pearson LearningStudio customers switch to D2L’s Brightspace LMS
D2L announced that over the past two years, a growing number of learning institutions are switching to its Brightspace platform from Pearson LearningStudio. More...