Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. A company that helps users link their achievements documented in their digital portfolios with firms that may be seeking those kinds of skills has inked a deal with the University of California System to make it available to current students and graduates. More...
Assessing competency-based education in terms of outcomes
Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. Higher education has long been consumed with access rather than outcomes, but developing metrics for monitoring competency-based programs could provide an opportunity to change that. More...
How Coursera Cracked The Chinese Market
Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. Coursera announced in July that they crossed 1 million registrations as China became their second largest market, overtaking India. Most U.S. consumer Internet companies have a hard time breaking into China. More...
Myths and Realities of Online Training
Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. Even after many years of online training in business, industry, and academia, there remain many myths concerning this method of delivery. Online training is impersonal. Online training can be made personal. More...
ASU’s MOOC lets students around globe earn freshman-year credit online
Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. More than 12,500 people from 163 countries have enrolled in ASU’s first for-credit massive open online course, or MOOC, which launched Thursday. More...
8 little-known video resources popular with teachers
Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. The use of video in education is growing by leaps and bounds. Videos are used in classrooms to support student learning, they play a critical role in flipped learning, and they also figure prominently in teacher professional development. More...
Should students learn coding? Students, schools disagree
Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. Parents across the U.S. are eager for their children to learn coding and other computer science skills, but their message hasn’t yet hit the in-box of school administrators. More...
Online course teaches kids to program while having fun
Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. With technology skills becoming as important as readin’, ritin’ and ’rithmetic in today’s digital world, many parents want to ensure that their children develop the right skills for the future. More...
What will learning look like in the future?
Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. When smartphones and tablets become one: the use of apps to deliver the training of the future suggests that as well as overcoming possible cost barriers, old attitudes and connectivity issues, objections around screen size will also go away. More...
Codeacademy: Turning a Profit when Your Product is Free
Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. A good way to build a large user base is to offer something valuable for free. That’s been the strategy so far behind Codecademy. In just a few short years since its inception in 2011, the company has grown into one of the world’s largest online learning platforms, with more than 24 million users. More...