Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. The digital wave in the country has transformed the entire education ecosystem, making it more tech-oriented and student-friendly. More...
What are the “black swans” of higher ed-tech?
Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. According to ed-tech experts, responding as flexibly as possible to often unpredictable trends and new technologies is critical for maximizing their potential positive impact on learning. More...
Can Online Education Help Refugees Earn Degrees?
Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. When refugees want to enter higher education, they often lack the paperwork. More...
Cheaper and Smarter: Blowing Up College With Nanodegrees
Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. A company called Udacity, partnering with Google, shows us that we’ve been focused on the wrong disruption. More...
How Student Video Presentations Can Build Community in an Online Course
Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. There was no way we could simply replicate in the online course the presentations that happen in the face-to-face version of the course. More...
EdX Overtakes Coursera in Number of Ivy League Partners
Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. With the addition of Princeton to its list of partners, edX, the non-profit MOOC provider that Harvard and MIT founded in 2012, now has more Ivy League partners than its largest for-profit competitor, Coursera. More...
In ‘Flipped’ Classes, Faculty See Opportunities and Obstacles
Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. Harvard faculty members have demonstrated an increased interest in the “flipped” classroom model, the practice of moving some material previously taught in lecture to pre-class video recordings, according to faculty involved in pedagogical research. More...
Education Department announces new open educational resources hire, college website
Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. Andrew Marcinek was hired by the Office of Educational Technology to work on connecting K-12 and higher ed schools to openly licensed educational resources. More...
Survey reveals why teachers aren’t embracing social media
Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. A new survey finds that just 13 percent of participating educators have used social media as part of their classroom learning. More...
Higher ed data security an ongoing process, not a problem to be solved
Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. Higher education institutions won’t ever get to a point where they can stop worrying about protecting data, so the best strategy is to prepare for continual training and review. More...