By Michael Feldstein. Phil and I will be doing a webinar along with Echo 360’s Fred Singer for Inside Higher Ed tomorrow. We’ll be talking about how to think about adopting these platforms in ways that create opportunities to encourage conversation within the campus community about pedagogy and improving student outcomes. More...
By Michael Feldstein. Don’t be put off by a title that reads like click bait; this piece in EdSurge by Julia Freeland Fisher is the real deal. The column looks at the adoption rates of…well…fridges and washing machines. More...
By Phil Hill. In July 2014 I wrote about the University of California’s project to update its payroll & HR systems to Peoplesoft systems and how the project had ballooned out of scope. More...
By Phil Hill. Today’s biggest ed tech news was Lumen Learning – co-founded by David Wiley and Kim Thanos and focused on getting deeper adoption of OER in higher education – and their new round of funding. More...
By Phil Hill. This Wednesday, April 19th, at 11am PDT / 2pm EDT I will be participating in a WCET webcast based on the latest National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES) and its Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) data for the Fall 2015 term on distance education (DE) enrollment. More...
By . For decades, Kuwait’s strong economy has attracted millions of Arab and foreign expatriates, who often work in jobs Kuwaitis are less interested in. But recently, the Kuwaiti government has raised concern that the high number of foreign workers in the country may be keeping the country’s graduates from finding employment. More...
By . The number of academic papers that focus on the perennially taboo subject of female genital mutilation has risen steeply since 2011. Research productivity on the topic in 2014 was 80 times higher than it was in 1976. This, say activists and experts, is crucial in the fight to reduce and eliminate the practice, which remains stubbornly prevalent in much of the Arab world. More...
By . Egypt is planning to increase international student enrollments at its national universities, with the aim of bringing in much-needed foreign currency to boost the national economy. More...
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