By Geoff Irvine. In the years that I have stood at the helm of Chalk & Wire (now nearly 20) I have never experienced such a consistent demand for assessment systems for cross-campus use. Clearly, leaders feel compelled to address the “value” question in Higher Education as never before. More...
By . When Cheap Trick first belted out “Are you lonely tonight,” it’s safe to say the band didn’t have distance learning in mind. Yet the line accurately sums up the most persistent problem plaguing online education since its inception: a sense of isolation among students. More...
By . Although most online higher education courses today are presented as mere PowerPoint lectures, Microsoft has joined forces with edX in the hopes that their Office Mix service can revolutionize online learning on the platform. More...
By Meris Stansbury - . These are just two major trends technology analysts from IEEE Computer Society, and education analysts from Eduventures, say will shape higher education in 2015. More...
By Jamie P. Merisotis. The profile of today’s college-going population looks much different than it did decades ago, when the average student was a fresh-faced 18-year-old moving directly from high school to campus. Students today are older, more experienced in work, and more socioeconomically and racially diverse than their peers of decades past. More...
By . Today's college students don't learn the same way as those in the past, and professors need to adapt to keep them engaged, according to speakers at a Teaching and Learning Symposium hosted Wednesday by Illinois State University's Center for Teaching, Learning and Technology. Spring semester classes don't start until Monday, but a few hundred of their professors were in “class,” learning about and sharing ideas for better teaching. More...
By Stefanie Botelho. Purdue University will partner with global leader edX, the nonprofit learning destination founded by MIT and Harvard, through a two-year agreement to begin offering a lineup of selected Purdue courses to anyone anytime with an Internet connection. More...
By Stefanie Botelho. At CES 2015, McGraw-Hill Education introduced the newest version of SmartBook, the company's adaptive reading platform, which helps students study more effectively and efficiently by guiding them through a personalized study experience that continually adapts to their needs and focuses their attention on what they need to learn the most. More...
By Stefanie Botelho. CampusBooks.com, a leading textbook price comparison website, announces their new “Buy vs. Rent” price prediction tool, an industry first, that helps students decide with confidence whether they should buy or rent based on current price and future estimated value. In a recent CampusBooks.com survey conducted by Campbell Rinker, eighty-five percent of students purchase textbooks online but nearly two in five students (39 percent) feel they get “poor” value selling their books at the end of a semester. More...
By Stefanie Botelho. Many pundits have suggested that the Republicans’ midterm gains were fueled by discontent not merely with the president or with the (improving) state of the economy, but with government in general and the need to fund its programs with taxes. Indeed, the Republican Party of recent decades, inspired by Ronald Reagan’s exhortation to “starve the [government] beast,” has been anti-tax and anti-government. Government programs, as many of their thinkers note, primarily exist to perpetuate their own existence. At the very least, they have to justify that existence. More...
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