LearnAlberta
CADE coverage continues... I saw a nice presentation from this LearnAlberta project today (the presentation, which was mostly a live demo, is not available). Some very good work that really shows the potential of learning objects. These are not available online yet, since they don't have a proper repository for them, but some should be available by September. More...
By William Leonard. Tertiary degree completion rates in the United States are middling compared to other OECD nations and many other developed and developing economies. While troubling, the justifications are too familiar. More...By Brendan O'Malley. After years of sagging funding and rising enrolment, the University of California (UC) system is nearing a ‘tipping point’ where it cannot continue to grow with California’s population and labour needs without seeking new revenues and state reinvestment, according to a new report from UC Berkeley’s Center for Studies in Higher Education. More...
Earlier this month, the Department of Education announced that it would rescind the Obama administration’s “Gainful Employment” (GE) rule, which penalized certain higher education programs that graduated students with too much debt relative to their earnings. More...
Four West Virginia University fraternities sent a letter to university leadership indicating they no longer want to be a part of the school’s student organizations. More...
Florida State University will welcome some of the tiniest members of the FSU family when the FSU Childcare and Early Learning Program reopens for business Aug. 27 with a new toddler wing. More...
In a suburb less than 10 miles south of downtown Pittsburgh, massive garage doors retract to reveal an aircraft hangar almost as large as a football field. The morning sun lands on a group of eight or so decommissioned aircraft, an aeronautical infirmary whose patients range from obsolete military planes to old private civilian jets. More...
Authorities have released a photo of a man they say opened fire on Georgia State University police before attempting to carjack a student’s vehicle. More...
A package of bills was signed into law recently to encourage students to attend college full-time while easing the burden of student-loan debt. More...
A new collective bargaining agreement with full-time faculty was unanimously approved Monday by the Eastern Florida State College Board of Trustees. More...
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