By Stephen Coan. Given the competitive environment of higher education, institutions need to improve student retention and success and attract high-performing students while ensuring their employability, according to Jon Baldwin, managing director of market development for Tribal. Analytics can be key in responding to these imperatives. Read more...
By Sungula Nkabinde. Educators have no doubt over the efficacy and need for learning analytics, but the invasion of privacy that it entails makes it an ethically grey area – because more often than not, the data is collected without students’ knowledge or consent. Read more...
By Karen MacGregor. An ‘operational network’ that stretches across the world and will offer regional support structures for open, distance and e-learning institutions was launched on the final day of the biennial conference of the International Council for Open and Distance Education, or ICDE. Read more...
By Munyaradzi Makoni. MOOCs – massive open online courses – have the potential to build new learning pathways. Governments, universities and stakeholders have a duty to scrutinise how the opportunities MOOCs offer can best be harnessed for development, the International Council for Open and Distance Education, or ICDE, conference heard. Read more...
By Munyaradzi Makoni. As societies change, so must leadership. Today’s higher education leaders must be ready to adapt to the new era of fast-paced technology, and to understand and engage in the complex environment in which it operates. Read more...
By Sungula Nkabinde. The future of technology is being shaped in Silicon Valley and California’s global innovation hub will thus dictate the evolution of education technology. The digital revolution and the ‘sharing economy’ mean education will become more accessible, but education technology writer Audrey Watters believes that does not necessarily bode well for the greater good that is the transfer of knowledge to the world’s most economically vulnerable people. Read more...
By Karen MacGregor. This has been the ‘Year of Education’, with a flurry of global policy statements key to online, open and flexible education, said Gard Titlestad, secretary general of the International Council for Open and Distance Education or ICDE. Read more...
Representatives of the American universities of Michigan State and California, Berkeley presented the MasterCard Foundation grants initiative to students at the University of Lomé in Togo, West Africa. Read more...
Théophile Mbemba, higher education and universities minister in the Democratic Republic of Congo, has closed 174 higher education institutions that have been judged ‘non-viable’. Read more...
By Emanuela Carleschi. The South African government’s research funding policy has long been criticised by academics. The policy has three major weaknesses. Read more...
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