Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. Research outfit Gartner tracked a 9.5 percent decline in shipments in the second quarter of this year compared to the same time a year ago, posting a tally of 68.4 million units. More...
Nursing Cyber-education: More pros than cons
Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. Enrollment in degree programs has been increasing at all levels as nurses and employers develop higher expectations of advanced education for the profession, according to healthcare researchers. More...
Searching For The Next Wave Of Education Innovation
Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. With the rise of the internet, it seemed like education was on the cusp of a complete revolution. More...
3 Ways Colleges Are Working to Improve Online Learning
Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. By forming online learning institutes and collecting data about student progress, programs hope to improve virtual learning. The University of Phoenix and DeVry University have implemented systems that run an analysis to look for troubling patterns in a student’s progress. More...
Can an Online Teaching Tool Solve One of Higher Education’s Biggest Headaches?
Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. Carnegie Mellon University has a problem. It’s a good one, this time—unlike when it lost dozens of researchers and scientists to Uber. More...
Gainful employment rule upheld by DC judge
Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. The for-profit college industry has lost a second round in the battle over the U.S. Department of Education’s gainful employment regulations. More...
Fiber Optics Cracked: Super-Fast, Cheap Internet En Route
Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. Electrical engineers have made a major breakthrough in fiber optic communications which has the potential to lead to super-fast, cheap Internet. More...
Is Facebook the Next Frontier for Online Learning?
Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. Social-networking sites such as Facebook can help students learn scientific literacy and other complex subjects that often receive short shrift in today’s time-strapped classrooms. More...
Flipped learning is changing the face of special ed
Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. At E.L. Haynes High School in Washington, D.C., 44 percent of students are English language learners, have special needs, or both. More...
Tackling BYOE (bring your own everything) in Higher Ed
Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. “Bring Your Own Device,” or BYOD, has been an ed tech buzzword for so long that it’s hard to imagine a learning environment without student-owned laptops, tablets, smartphones and the like. More...