A quick glance at the challenges being faced in Higher Ed, when it comes to implementing emerging technologies.
Article discusses the decrease in the number of women entering computer science and software engineering.
In a novel collaboration, the New Media Consortium (NMC), the Economist Magazine’s Intelligence Unit (EIU), and Apple jointly designed and conducted a study of nearly 300 CIOs and others inside and outside education around the world. The study was designed to uncover perceptions among these leaders specifically related to the use of technology in higher education worldwide in the coming years.
An article discussing the various uses, weaknesses, and strengths of the use of mobile technology in higher education.
An article outlining the various uses of technology in higher ed and advocating systemic transformation.
VK: The whole idea behind distance education has been to take education to people who cannot come to the university because of work, or because they live too far from a university, or because they do not have enough money. Various countries have tried to address the problem of access to education by using the postal service, as the U.K. Open University did in the beginning; interactive telecommunications, as they did in the University of Maine system and in other places around the world; and now the Internet. Open-education efforts, as exemplified by MIT's OCW initiative or the many other initiatives that have sprung up since, make course content and other materials from educational institutions freely available on the Web for direct use or for repurposing for different contexts.
To date, most CIO studies have looked at the corporate model without regard to the unique demands of the academic arena. Despite many similarities between the skills, responsibilities, and roles of corporate and higher education CIOs, enough differences exist in their working environments and applications to warrant more study specifically targeting the higher education CIO. In light of the seriou
students in the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities System are in overwhelming support of SMARTHINKING online tutoring, according to a Fall 2007 survey. The survey explored the satisfaction of Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system students enrolled in the Minnesota Online gateway system who use SMARTHINKING online tutoring.
Concerned by the low numbers of law students choosing careers in public service, Harvard Law School plans to waive tuition for third-year students who pledge to spend five years working either for nonprofit organizations or the government.
High school seniors nationwide are anxiously awaiting the verdicts from
the colleges of their choice later this month. But though it may not be of
much solace to them, in just a few years the admissions frenzy is likely
to ease. It’s simply a matter of demographics.
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A quick glance at the challenges being faced in Higher Ed, when it comes to implementing emerging technologies.
VK: The whole idea behind distance education has been to take education to people who cannot come to the university because of work, or because they live too far from a university, or because they do not have enough money. Various countries have tried to address the problem of access to education by using the postal service, as the U.K. Open University did in the beginning; interactive telecommunications, as they did in the University of Maine system and in other places around the world; and now the Internet. Open-education efforts, as exemplified by MIT's OCW initiative or the many other initiatives that have sprung up since, make course content and other materials from educational institutions freely available on the Web for direct use or for repurposing for different contexts.
To date, most CIO studies have looked at the corporate model without regard to the unique demands of the academic arena. Despite many similarities between the skills, responsibilities, and roles of corporate and higher education CIOs, enough differences exist in their working environments and applications to warrant more study specifically targeting the higher education CIO. In light of the seriou
students in the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities System are in overwhelming support of SMARTHINKING online tutoring, according to a Fall 2007 survey. The survey explored the satisfaction of Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system students enrolled in the Minnesota Online gateway system who use SMARTHINKING online tutoring.
High school seniors nationwide are anxiously awaiting the verdicts from the colleges of their choice later this month. But though it may not be of much solace to them, in just a few years the admissions frenzy is likely to ease. It’s simply a matter of demographics.
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