Audrey Watters has a great blog at www,hackeducation.com
Top Ed-Tech Trends of 2014: Buzzwords
Dec 032014
Dec 032014
(thanks Allen Taylor for the tip) – From OpenCulture.com…
While you were eating turkey, we were busy rummaging around the internet and adding new courses to our big list of Free Online Courses, which now features 1,100 courses from top universities. Let’s give you the quick overview: The list lets you download audio & video lectures from schools like Stanford, Yale, MIT, Oxford and Harvard. Generally, the courses can be accessed via YouTube, iTunes or university web sites, and you can listen to the lectures anytime, anywhere, on your computer or smart phone. We didn’t do a precise calculation, but there’s probably about 33,000 hours of free audio & video lectures here. Enough to keep you busy for a very long time.
Nov 282014
By Stefanie Botelho at University Business Magazine…
A large majority of college-bound students (85 percent) said that digital capabilities, such as integration of technology into classrooms, virtual coursework and online classes are a top determinant in choosing which university to attend, according to a five-country survey by Accenture.
Nov 142014
From Business Wire…
Survey Reveals the iGeneration Wants Personalized Communications on Multiple Platforms during the College Admissions and Enrollment Process to Make Informed Decisions
Aug 312014
Making a strong case for liberal arts degrees. By Elizabeth Segran at FastCompany.com…
Why Top Tech CEOs Want Employees With Liberal Arts Degrees | Fast Company | Business + Innovation.
Aug 312014
Anyone planning an enterprise deployment of iPads specifically, or tablets generally, is advised to check out the series of podcasts available.
From their web site: Deploy 2014 is a series of shows we are currently building up to help you lead a major technology deployment in your school or organisation. The series is published in our regular podcast feed and this page gathers and organises each of the posts in the series, along with a summary of the content.
Jun 232014
While I appreciate the good intentions behind it, here comes another unfunded mandate increasing the costs in higher education. Next story line (from a different author) will be something like “The Soaring Costs of Tuition in U.S. Higher Education.”
By Karen Farkas at Cleveland.com…
In a continuing effort to curb campus sexual assaults, the U.S. Department of Education officially proposed a new rule that requires colleges and universities to compile statistics for incidents of dating violence, domestic violence and stalking, Inside Higher Ed reported.
Jun 192014
I’ll be checking in on this interesting initiative. I have three family members going to school here.
By Conner Forest at TechRepublic.com…
Virginia’s Chesterfield County Schools recently announced that it will launch the largest education deployment of Chromebooks to date. Here’s what you can learn from it.
via 32,000 Chromebooks: How a Virginia school system bet on Google’s PC platform – TechRepublic.