By Karine Joly. What will 2014 bring to the digital field in higher ed? That’s the million dollar question at the start of this new year. Unfortunately, charting a precise course for success over the next 12 months isn’t possible. More...
By Scott Jaschik. The early decision deadlines of many colleges this fall grew confusing and chaotic -- to applicants and colleges alike -- when glitches in a new version of the Common Application resulted in system crashes that made it impossible for many to complete applications. Many colleges pushed back their deadlines and college counselors tried to calm anxious applicants and parents. Read more...
By Julia Tyler. Big data will rapidly revolutionise the business school curriculum; students and schools will need to adapt quickly to stay ahead, says Julia Tyler. It is estimated there are more than 2.5 quintillion data bytes of “big data” moving among us every day. Every time we use Facebook, Twitter, Google, the Web, YouTube, a tablet device, a mobile phone, GPS, email, or any digital social media platform to communicate, make purchases, or conduct business, we are manoeuvring the virtual tsunami of data bytes washing across the globe. Read more...
iPads in Higher Education. 20-22 March 2014: IHE 2014, Paphos, Cyprus.
ihe 2014 is the world’s 1st international research conference about iPad use in Higher Education (HE). You are invited to join scholars, learning technologists and practitioners from across the globe to share insights into teaching practice and student learning in an interdisciplinary and collaborative interchange of experience. The conference seeks to provide a common forum for the varied forms of research on the use of iPads HE, and to explore innovative models of learning using the iPad.
The iPad computer tablet is described as a category-defining phenomenon, a game-changer and a transformative experience. Increasingly, many higher education (HE) institutions around the world are embedding the use of iPads in teaching and learning. Yet, despite the prevalence of the iPad in comparison to other tablets both in the market and in educational institutions, there is a noticeable shortage of research on the use of this tablet in HE.
The main aim of the 1st international conference is to encourage research, debate, reflection and exchange of ideas on the use of iPads in HE. The theme is broad to encourage contributions from a variety of disciplines and to bring together researchers and academics from a wide spectrum of HE fields and educational practices.
The full programme of the conference in pdf format (Changes are possible until the end of February 2014): ihe2014_programme_V01.
By Nancy Mann Jackson. Campus bookstores can help in the adoption of new technology.Not everyone on campus is ready to use e-books, video lectures and other digital learning materials. But the campus bookstore can help in the adoption of new technology.. More...
By Lauren Williams. Students say phone are both a great study tool and a distraction. More college students are using their smartphones as a study tool even though the internet and activities like texting were cited as the biggest distractions to hitting the books, according to a new study by McGraw-Hill Education. More...
By Audrey Watters. Yesterday, I wrapped up my year-end series on the Top Ed-Tech Trends of 2013. Good riddance to 2013. (Good riddance to the series.) Seriously though: It’s a project that takes me an incredibly long time to do — to review everything that’s happened in ed-tech throughout the year and to compile an overview that captures events and offers analysis. I sometimes shudder that these posts get wrapped up in the weariness, if not animosity towards year-end “list” posts (I hate list posts too) ,and I do wonder sometimes if it’s even worth my writing annual reviews. More...
In its prime, the ancient neighborhood of Petsburg may have had as many as 10,000 homes. And though they are now abandoned, traces of their inhabitants still hide in the ruins. “I just LOVE attention!,” a resident named Gypsy once wrote in her long-forgotten journal. Another resident named Cosmo confessed, “I don’t mean to be a bad cat, but being good is very difficult.” Names of these neighbors linger on the walls and in guestbooks. There was Fuzzy, Tinker, Nipper, Spice, Boomer, Lady Sustina, Whisky, and countless others too, now scattered, if they're still anywhere at all. More...
Blog Educpros de Gilbert Azoulay. Le handicap doit faire partie des préoccupations majeures de l’ensemble des institutions publiques. Cela a été rappelé lors des journées d’étude NTIC et informatique adaptée organisées par la Fédération des Aveugles et handicapés Visuels de France (FAF) les 2/3 décembre derniers. Une occasion de rappeler que le handicap doit réellement être pris en compte dans le schéma directeur numérique de tous les établissements. D’autant que ce sujet permet de déterminer des solutions ergonomiques, intuitives et faciles d’accès. C’est le point de vue d’Eric Vidal, responsable informatique de la FAF. Entretien. 
By Jan Puhl. Ibrahim also created a foundation which releases an annual ranking of good and bad governance among African nations, based on a number of indicators. Free and fair elections garner positive points, for example, while corruption lowers a country's ranking. The foundation also presents the annual Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership, which awards $5 million to a commendable African politician. This year, though, for the second year in a row, the jury found no one it considered worthy of receiving the prize. More...
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