By Benjamin Plackett. The last year has seen a new feature of the effort to deliver higher education to the Syrian youth displaced by the long-running war in their country—institutions tailored solely for Syrian students. More...
English is All the Rage in Mauritania
By Dah Yacoub. Seidi Ahmed, a 30-year-old graduate of the University of Nouakchott Faculty of Law, speaks his mother tongue, Arabic, and has added to that a mastery of French. But he could not get a much-coveted government job until after he enrolled in one of the English teaching institutes found everywhere in the Mauritanian capital. More...
Why a Global Education Doesn’t Have to Mean Going Abroad
By . Do students need a passport to get a global experience?
Breaking with orthodoxy in study abroad, some educators have come to believe that the answer is no. More...
Adult coding camps explode as employers seek tech-savvy workers
By Kathleen Gallagher. With eight employer requests for every student currently accepted into its computer coding classes, Milwaukee-based DevCodeCamp is expanding the amount of space it leases and the number of students it will train. It’s all part of an educational coding surge that is happening in many other cities, as well. More...
Why hasn’t higher education been more disrupted?
By Troy Williams. Virtually every industry has been fundamentally changed by the rise of the Internet. However, even though we are now in a second wave of disruption with the shift to mobile, higher education still remains largely unchanged. More...
In this tech age, who’s your target learner?
By Pam Buffington. What will university learners require in 10 years? Who will these learners be? How will they learn and what will they demand? Universities must innovate and evolve now to be prepared for the future. More...
Emerging field has huge potential for college and university curricula
By Bridget McCrea. Data analytics is gaining traction as a new career option for college graduates. Here’s how one institution is grabbing the opportunity and helping students prepare for jobs in the field. More...
University goes “Mad Men” for technology buy-in
By Andrew Barbour. In implementing any major tech initiative on campus today, the greatest challenges tend to revolve more around change management than technical issues. More...
Want to protect research data? Go multi-tiered
By Andrew Barbour. Network attached storage (NAS) provides campus researchers with a cost-effective way to store, share, and back up their work securely, but it should be part of a multi-tier storage and recovery strategy. More...
Tools help video collaboration go mobile
By . It’s not hard to spot technology on campuses across the nation, and unified collaboration tools are quickly becoming essential to teaching and learning at institutions of higher education. More...