Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. Search engine giant Google and online education company Udacity on Monday launched IT courses in India, branching outside the US to tap the country’s millions of software developers scrambling for jobs. More...
Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. The California community colleges, at the Chancellor’s Office level and among individual colleges, have been taking the lead, actively studying the certification and badge system. A recent mapping effort by the Sector Navigators staff among the Colleges detailed the growing number of certifications. More...
Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. Although Coursera got its start in Silicon Valley, the Mountain View, Calif., company has attracted an increasingly global user base in the past three years. More...
Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. Even though tablet purchases are on the rise among college students, most of them still prefer to use laptops for learning. At the same time, overwhelming majorities of students believe tablets will serve more and more educational functions in the future. More...
Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. Implementing adaptive learning technology in college courses can be an uphill struggle but well worth it, according to pioneering faculty members. Adaptive learning platforms in higher education are starting to produce some promising results, yet the market is still in its infancy. More...
Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. Using computers and other learning technology too often can be detrimental to student performance, OECD says. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Why Twitter’s Dying (And What You Can Learn From It)
Umair Haque, Medium, 2015/10/15
Twitter is dying. No this isn't just my opinion, but the conclusion being drawn as the company lays of hundreds of staff in a bid to remain solvent. Why? Umair Haque suggests a one-word explanation: abuse. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Technology Imperialism, the Californian Ideology, and the Future of Higher Education
Audrey Watters, Hack Education, 2015/10/15
Your new word for the day is 'synecdochal'. It's a lovely word, used by Audrey Watters in this talk. It was new to me, and means "Using an inclusive term for something included, or vice versa; using something spoken of as the whole (hand for laborer) or vice-versa (the court for the judge).". More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. 2 Universities Turn to the Cloud for Their LMS
Dian Schaffhauser, Campus Technology, 2015/10/15
My first experience with Blackboard many years ago involved writing a complete ethics course on the hosted platform. The ethics course is long since lost, sadly. And Blackboard became an application universities installed on their own servers. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Writing for Visual Thinkers: Narrative Structures
Andrea Marks, Graphics, 2015/10/15
I'm including this item just to tweak the learning-styles-sceptics out there. This item has nothing to do with learning styles per se but the appeal to 'visual thinkers' comes straight from the same theory. More...
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