By Carl Straumsheim. Decision to grant a publisher the right to print the writings of Aaron Swartz -- viewed by some as a martyr of the open-access movement -- sets off a debate about copyright. Read more...
Monitoring the Gatekeepers
By Paul Fain. Obama administration continues to turn up pressure on accreditors, promising in new letter to measure the agencies against their peers and urging more focus on student achievement and troubled colleges. Read more...
Le ministère refuse tout tirage au sort en Paces
Par Thibaut Cojean, Orientations. Alors que le rectorat a annoncé la semaine dernière la mise en place d’un tirage au sort en Paces, Thierry Mandon a catégoriquement rejeté cette possibilité. Dans la pratique, il semblerait en fait qu’un tirage au sort n’aurait pas été nécessaire cette année. Voir l'article...
Austrade sets target of 110 million MOOC students for Australia by 2025
Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. International Education Minister Richard Colbeck will launch on Saturday a radical plan for Australia to use online technology to grab 10 per cent of the world market in education by 2025, amounting to an astonishing 110 million students. More...
A Digital Approach To Education
Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. Online higher education aims to make courses more engaging and interactive for students of all ages. Adult learners in particular have found that online courses fit better with their work and home schedules than showing up on campus two or three nights a week. More...
Despite some professors’ discomfort, online ed here to stay
Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. Henry Lucas, a faculty chair at the University of Maryland’s Smith School of Business and author of Technology and the Disruption of Higher Education: Saving the American University, argues faculty must come around to online education to keep their universities alive. More...
This Is Your Brain on Podcasts
Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. Storytelling happened, and now scientists have mapped the experience of listening to podcasts, specifically “The Moth Radio Hour,” using a scanner to track brain activity. More...
Google, Udacity partnership teaches mobile app development
Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. The Tech Entrepreneur Nanodegree from Udacity represents a Google-designed curriculum that focuses on creation, development, implementation and marketing apps. Academia Apps reports the program is designed for a non-technical user, which could open the door for educators to take the MOOC and develop apps for their courses. More...
Can AI fix education? We asked Bill Gates
Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. The rise of smartphones has transformed the way students communicate and entertain themselves. But the classrooms they spend so much of their time in remain stubbornly resistant to transformation. Bill Gates is working to change all that. More...
Higher ed CIO says student devices shifting the digital landscape
Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. With the average student bringing as many as seven wired or wireless devices to campus, Dee Childs, CIO and associate provost at the University of Alabama Huntsville, sees a new era to which campuses have had to adapt. More...