By Colleen Flaherty. “Dress codes and good style aren’t mutually exclusive,” according to an online Gap ad that was panned by academics on social media this week. More...
Steady Hand in an Unpredictable Time
By Andrew Kreighbaum. Recent personnel choices at the Department of Education have received scrutiny for connections to private industry and personal ideologies at odds with the mission of their office. More...
Why Germany Educates International Students for Free
By David Matthews for Times Higher Education. University leaders see benefits to policy in a country with aging population, but some states have been trying to move away from the approach. More...
Years of Work, Tabled
By Colleen Flaherty. Duke University was trying to do something different with a proposed new undergraduate curriculum, emphasizing less what students should study than how. More...
UM is offering an online course to teach the public on how fake news can be spotted
Techno-News Blog. Fake news has been everywhere, constantly confusing and misleading people from the truth. And now, they are even more difficult to spot, for which reason the University of Michigan prepares to offer an online course to help their citizens be equipped on effectively spotting fake news. More...
Harvard’s newest business course? A TED Talk come to life
Techno-News Blog. Harvard Business School will begin offering the first open-enrollment online course from the its state-of-the-art WGBH studio next month. The class, called Managing Your Career Development, will take place over seven sessions starting May 16. More...
More SD Students Taking Online University Courses
Techno-News Blog. The number of students taking college courses online continues to rise. A report from the South Dakota Board of Regents shows over fourteen thousand students taking at least some of their classes on line last fall. More...
Exercise devised to boost completion rates of some online learning courses: study
Techno-News Blog. A study indicates that a simple writing activity, lasting about eight minutes, increased completion rates for people from individualistic, but not collectivist, cultures to take online learning courses. More...
Google AI experiment may lead to robots that can learn WITHOUT human input
Techno-News Blog. And creating robots that can learn without any input from humans is moving ever closer, thanks to the latest developments in artificial intelligence. One such project seeks to pit the wits of two AI algorithms against each other, with results that could one day lead to the emergence of such intelligent machines. More...
3 Reasons to Consider MOOCs Over an Online Degree
Techno-News Blog. Massive open online courses allow prospective students to gauge their interest in different majors at no cost. Having now also completed an online bachelor’s program at Oregon State University Ecampus, I feel it might be helpful for other prospective students to understand the benefits and challenges of a MOOC, and when it might make more sense to enroll in a more structured online degree program. More...