Ed Tech: Page 31
-
Pluralsight, best-paying ed jobs, and priorities: The week’s most-read education news
Fall behind? Get caught up on how humanities deans are dealing with shifting value propositions and more right here!
By Roger Riddell • June 12, 2015 -
New partnership joins corporations and community colleges
The College Employer Collaborative will design content with CorpU for community colleges to incorporate into their certificate programs.
By Tara García Mathewson • June 12, 2015 -
Trendline
Emerging Technology
As higher ed deals with enrollment declines and other challenges, colleges need to consider how increased and changing use of technology affects students and campus finances.
By Higher Ed Dive staff -
Grovo, Capital One partner on free digital literacy training
The Future Edge Digital Literacy Challenge aims to teach adults basic computer skills necessary for many jobs.
By Tara García Mathewson • June 11, 2015 -
XPRIZE, Barbara Bush Foundation offering $7M to top adult literacy app creators
The global competition will challenge developers to create scalable mobile apps that can help adult students make significant progress in basic literacy.
By Tara García Mathewson • June 10, 2015 -
Deep Dive
EAB: Tracking outcomes top of mind in online, professional ed
Annual survey of online and professional ed administrators also offers insights on alternative credentials and hybrid programs.
By Roger Riddell • June 9, 2015 -
Daphne Koller: Online ed won't replace the traditional model
The Coursera co-founder argues online courses are more effective for certain topics, but traditional classroom experiences have their own draw beyond learning.
By Tara García Mathewson • June 8, 2015 -
Deep Dive
Tech learning 'Netflix' Pluralsight offering free courses to reservists, vets, and families
The promotion runs through the end of July, opening the platform’s training library to hundreds of thousands.
By Tara García Mathewson • June 5, 2015 -
Penn State to offer supply chain certificate bootcamp
The Smeal College of Business is partnering with CorpU on the program, which aims to close a skills gap in supply chain talent pools.
By Tara García Mathewson • June 5, 2015 -
Linux looks to edX for second MOOC
The new course will build on Introduction to Linux 101 and end with a certified system administrator exam.
By Tara García Mathewson • June 4, 2015 -
Former Ed Dept official joins 2U as chief impact officer
Jim Shelton, who previously served as deputy secretary of education, will ensure 2U maintains high quality as it scales up.
By Tara García Mathewson • June 4, 2015 -
Thrun sees nanodegrees as key to ed democratization
The Udacity founder sees short, online degree programs pushing higher education into the 21st century.
By Tara García Mathewson • June 4, 2015 -
Online education partnerships increasingly popular among employers
Free schooling is gaining steam as an employment benefit and higher ed should take note.
By Tara García Mathewson • June 3, 2015 -
Udemy rakes in $65M for international expansion
The online learning marketplace is also eyeing growth in its course catalog and enterprise offerings.
By Tara García Mathewson • June 3, 2015 -
EdCast sets sights on bite-size lifelong learning with new social platform
EdCasting brings together elements of microblogging and MOOCs to share short videos and other educational content.
By Tara García Mathewson • June 2, 2015 -
Mount Holyoke debuts online, face-to-face teacher leadership programs
The program will contain video conferencing sessions and asynchronous online content for a 32-credit program.
By Tara García Mathewson • May 28, 2015 -
Deep Dive
Bringing integrity to online credits
At the end of the exam, each student will receive an Integrity Score and instructors will get a report showing those scores.
By Tara García Mathewson • May 27, 2015 -
MBAs, Pearson, and MOOCs: The week’s most-read education news
Catch up on Texas' testing contract switch-up, FutureLearn's giant MOOC, and more.
May 22, 2015 -
Deep Dive
MiM: The new MBA?
Students are increasingly seeing Master's in Management programs as the better option.
By Tara García Mathewson • May 20, 2015 -
Does edX proctoring solution hold key to offering MOOCs for credit?
The non-profit MOOC provider now offers a way to record student test-taking for later review, increasing flexibility for high-quality verification.
By Tara García Mathewson • May 20, 2015 -
Succession planning for online courses
When faculty create online courses, passing them on to other instructors can be emotionally fraught.
By Tara García Mathewson • May 20, 2015 -
The Learning House acquires Carnegie Mellon creation Acatar
Acatar will broaden the company’s appeal to institutions looking for help with online education.
By Tara García Mathewson • May 19, 2015 -
Pakistan’s Axact allegedly rakes in millions with massive diploma mill
The New York Times says the company duped mostly U.S. and Arabian students into paying thousands each for fake degrees.
By Tara García Mathewson • May 19, 2015 -
Champlain College's corporate partnerships boost online enrollment
The small Vermont college has forged more than 50 partnerships with companies like Comcast and Ben & Jerry's to secure new student populations.
By Tara García Mathewson • May 18, 2015 -
UK-based FutureLearn launches biggest MOOC yet
The online course focused on English has enrolled 382,000 students from 153 countries.
By Tara García Mathewson • May 18, 2015 -
UC-Irvine MOOCs move from zombies to vampires
The university's latest massive open online science course offered via Instructure is based on the FX TV show The Strain.
By Tara García Mathewson • May 15, 2015
Previous
