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31 juillet 2014

10 Apple and Android apps for international students

By Ron Bethke. For more than 800,000 international students who attend college in the U.S. every year, the transition to both college and to the country are one in the same. Adjusting to an entirely new culture, learning a new language, and getting the feel for a new area can always be difficult, but when you add taking a full course load and learning to live on your own for the first time, you’d likely be hard pressed to find an international student who wouldn’t mind some help managing his or her experiences once in a while. More...

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31 juillet 2014

Op-ed: It’s time to drop the digital

By David J. Hinson. It’s time to drop digital from everything. Digital humanities. Digital marketing. Digital branding. Digital agencies. Just stop. Now.
Because Humanities are Humanities, not Digital Humanities. Marketing is Marketing, not Digital Marketing. Agencies are Agencies, not Digital Agencies. More...

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31 juillet 2014

5 PD tips for the new semester

By Amy Schoenrock. Faculty often want to learn more about technology integration, but have difficulty finding the time, or knowing where to start. Many understand the basics of technology in higher education, but would like to see new ideas. They are faced with providing more training to more users with fewer resources. More...

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31 juillet 2014

Why are colleges getting free Big Data services?

By Denny Carter - eCampus. Hoping to mold a generation of college graduates specializing in analyzing data using certain proprietary Big Data software, companies are offering their services for free to campuses nationwide. The latest offer is from California-based Predixion Software, which announced its Predixion in the Classroom (PIC) initiative Jan. 28. More...

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31 juillet 2014

Professor argues GRE hurts STEM, women and minorities

By eCampus News staff and wire reports. The Graduate Record Examinations, a standardized test developed more than 60 years ago and a requirement at most U.S. grad schools, is not a good predictor of a student’s ultimate success, and is the primary barrier holding back women and minority students, said Casey Miller, a professor of physics at USF and co-author of “A Test that Fails,” published last month in the journal Nature. More...

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31 juillet 2014

Nearly 100 percent of libraries offer this critical training

By eCampus News staff and wire reports. Coinciding with President Obama’s recent signing of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act, a new tech trends study from the American Library Association (ALA) finds that nearly 100 percent of America’s libraries offer digital readiness programs, such as homework assistance, workforce development programs, WiFi, and technology skills training, including maker spaces, website coding and social media classes. More...

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31 juillet 2014

Obama Administration: These job-training programs are the most effective

By Meris Stansbury - eCampus. There’s a growing trend, as the economy still lingers in recovery and traditional four-year tuition remains barely affordable, of students and parents coming to understand that if you want relatively stable paying job after postsecondary education, skills training is a great bet. But what programs are currently the most successful. More...

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31 juillet 2014

8 key considerations for competency-based education

By Meris Stansbury - eCampus. With the recent signing of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act, the popularity of jobs training programs across the country, and the recent surge in the offerings of digital badges, competency-based education (CBE) is becoming a must for any higher education institution looking to serve a broader pool of 21st-century students. More...

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31 juillet 2014

Student plagiarism causes and solutions

By Meris Stansbury - eCampus. Student plagiarism has become a lot more complex than simply quoting a famous author or a famous work without attribution. Thanks to the influx of internet resources and student and faculty reliance on these online sources, common examples of plagiarism are numerous. More...

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31 juillet 2014

The next big innovation in higher ed is…collaboration?

By Meris Stansbury - eCampus. Poetry, personal stories, laughs and boisterous arm and hand gestures are not what I was expecting at 8 in the morning, and, I’m nervous to admit, from a university president. Neither was the conversation aimed at inspiring collaboration among all departments and lessening boundaries and hierarchy. More...

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