An article about the partnerships that banks have with college campuses with a special focus on financial advertising to youth.
There is one thing college students don’t need when it comes to their software: another expense. With books, tuition and the million other expenses that come with going to college, the last thing you should have to pay for is some decent software.
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
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An article about the partnerships that banks have with college campuses with a special focus on financial advertising to youth.
There is one thing college students don’t need when it comes to their software: another expense. With books, tuition and the million other expenses that come with going to college, the last thing you should have to pay for is some decent software.
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.
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