The next generation of wireless technology is coming, promising everything from faster data to self-driving cars — and Salt Lake City is one of the first stops. More...
D2L's Brightspace offers new ways to organize and manage professional development
D2L today announces a Professional Development (PD) offering for Higher Education. The Brightspace learning platform can now be used to provide seven ways to organize and manage professional learning. More...
When you cut the humanities, what you lose is the human
A few months after the end of spring quarter classes in 2016, one of my former Northwestern University students emailed that he had found an old copy of the essays of 16th-century French philosopher Michel de Montaigne on a trip to France. More...
Trump University settlement now final as objector drops appeal
A federal judge on Monday signed off on a $25 million agreement to settle fraud claims arising from Trump University, the now-defunct education venture of U.S. President Donald Trump, after a former student agreed to drop further appeals. More...
As college costs rise, some Texas students go hungry. Will food scholarships help?
Joel Philistin, a financial coach at Houston Community College, has had students come to his office hungry. Not on-a-diet hungry, or only-eating-ramen-noodles hungry. But so hungry they can’t concentrate in class. More...
Spark451 launches Element451
Spark451, a leading higher education enrollment technology and marketing firm, has announced the launch of Element451, an intelligent admissions marketing platform. More...
How institutions can ensure their online offerings are up to scratch
Adoption and offering of online programming is on the rise at postsecondary institutions across the United States and Canada, it’s continued growth being driven by a number of trends coming together. Of course, development, delivery and support of online programming requires a different set of competencies and priorities from institutional leaders than the more traditional face-to-face offerings that have been the bread and butter of higher learning academies for generations. More...
Austin aims to become fashion hub with help from ACC, city funding
Austin isn't currently known for being a fashion hub, but if the City of Austin and Austin Community College have anything to say about it, the city very well could be. The ACC Fashion Incubator, which will launch in the coming months at ACC's Highland Campus, received some of the equipment that will be used there: fashion industry-quality machines for the people in the incubator to use. More...
Odem is a new startup using Blockchain to transform education
Whether you agree with it or not, the current education system is broken. The cost of education has been skyrocketing over the past 10 years. It’s not just the tuition costs at elite universities like Harvard, in 2015, the average cost of tuition and fees at a private, non-profit, four-year university was $31,231—up sharply from $1,832 in 1971-1972 (in current dollars). More...
Blue Prism works with the University of Manchester
Staying true to their vision of building authentic, enterprise grade software, Blue Prism (AIM: PRSM), the pioneer in Robotic Process Automation (RPA), has today launched its Global Academia Program, to empower students with the skills they need to participate in and shape the future of work. More...