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28 novembre 2017

A Note on Data Used for LMS Market Analysis

The market data are organized in a dataset that captures system usage on a per higher education institution basis. For most schools, a campus is equivalent to an institution. But there are also cases where there multiple campuses per university (e.g. University of Minnesota system with five campuses, or DeVry University with dozens of campuses) and the LMS decision is made at the system level. In these situations, one decision will lead to multiple institutions listed in the data. More...

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28 novembre 2017

State of Higher Ed LMS Market for US and Canada: Fall 2017 Edition

Now that we're past the 2017 WCET conference and headed to the EDUCAUSE conference, let's look at updates on the institutional LMS market for North America (US and Canada). Last year we started our LMS market analysis service, where we are working with LISTedTECH to provide market data and visualizations, and our fall report for subscribers will be released in about a month. Data for 2017 presented below goes through October 1 of this year. More...

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28 novembre 2017

The Strayer/Capella Merger and What it Means for For-Profits

Strayer has the upper hand in the merger, taking a 52% controlling interest in the new company, which will be called "Strategic Education" and will maintain Strayer's "STRA" stock symbol. With combined enrollments of close to 80,000 students, the new company will be one of the largest for-profits in the US. More...

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28 novembre 2017

The Dutch Learn to Welcome Refugee Students

Netherlands–When Wassim Mahmoud needs help navigating student life in Amsterdam, he turns to Rosa Rietkerk, a Dutch political-science student.
Mahmoud, a 29-year-old Palestinian from Syria, and Rietkerk, 20, met through the Foundation for Refugee Students (known by its Dutch acronym, UAF), a charity that supports refugees in higher education. More...

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28 novembre 2017

Germany Sees Mixed Results in Refugee Education

Two years after Syrians started coming to Germany by the hundreds of thousands, the nation has had decidedly mixed results in integrating the new arrivals into its educational system. Older children are often shut out of learning anything other than German language and culture during their first year, though younger children who quickly learn the language can join their German peers in the classroom. More...

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28 novembre 2017

A Team Effort to Combat Domestic Violence

Lebanon's Internal Security Forces and a group at the Lebanese American University here have collaborated in a training program for officers in the country's national police force to improve their response to violence against women. More...

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28 novembre 2017

NYU Department Cuts Ties With Abu Dhabi Campus

Egyptian researchers are exploring innovative solutions to some aspects of the country’s water-scarcity problem, including projects that seek to make the use of water in agriculture more efficient, to devise affordable ways of desalinating brackish water, and to recycle the “gray water” produced by laundries. But weak public funding for these projects makes it difficult to carry them out. More...

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28 novembre 2017

Water is Scarce in Egypt; So Are Research Funds

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28 novembre 2017

Qatar’s Museums Embrace an Educational Role

Sounds of excited children beam out of the Qatar Museums Gallery in the Katara cultural village here, as young visitors try their hand at skateboarding on a ramp inside the gallery space.
The specially built ramp is part of a photography exhibition, “Skate Girls of Kabul,” that presents the story of Afghan girls for whom skateboarding is a way of achieving more personal freedom in their country’s conservative society. More...

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28 novembre 2017

The Complete Writings of a Revolutionary

It is a sign of the enduring status of the work of the Palestinian writer Ghassan Kanafani that a collection of 17 of his books has recently been published in a boxed set, 45 years after his death. More...

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