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4 octobre 2014

For Bill on Disabled Access to Online Teaching Materials, the Devil’s in the Details

By Rebecca Koenig. As smart classrooms become the norm on more campuses and online courses proliferate, some observers worry that the digital revolution will leave students with disabilities behind. But a bill under consideration in the U.S. Congress, the Technology, Equality, and Accessibility in College and Higher Education Act (HR 3505), would deal with that concern by creating accessibility guidelines for electronic materials used or assigned by college professors and administrators. Read more...

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4 octobre 2014

MOOC U: The Revolution Isn't Over

By Jeffrey Selingo. Three years ago, this headline appeared in The New York Times: "Virtual and Artificial, but 58,000 Want Course." We all know the rest of the story. When the artificial-intelligence class at Stanford University started that fall, 160,000 students in 190 countries had signed up, touching off MOOC mania on campuses around the world. Massive open online courses were heralded as the invention that would disrupt higher education’s expensive business model and would become the next big innovation in the tech world. By the end of 2012, the Times declared it "the year of the MOOC." More...

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4 octobre 2014

NYU Eats World - An alumna laments the rise of an imperial university

By Claudia Dreifus. New York University’s students arrived in August at an institution embroiled in scandal.
Universities usually make headlines with sports-related meltdowns, but NYU—the very model of the modern, inflating mega-university—was fending off charges of outlandish payouts and perks to some high-level executives, and of labor and human-rights abuses at its branch campus in the Middle East. More...

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4 octobre 2014

Top 100 world universities 2014/15 - THE rankings

The world university rankings were published today, with the California Institute of Technology maintaining its position as the top-ranked university worldwide. The Times Higher Education (THE) magazine has today published its 2014/15 world university rankings, placing the California Institute of Technology in top place for the fourth consecutive year. Read more...

By Graeme Paton. The Higher Education Funding Council for England says that pupils in many rural areas are missing out on university despite gaining the grades needed to apply. Read more...

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