Coursera moves closer to academic acceptance
Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller, Stanford University computer science professors who started Coursera, Coursera, an online-education provider is one step closer to academic acceptance, saying Thursday that...
View ArticleOnline education replacing physical colleges at a record pace
Educators have known that the online revolution would eventually envelop the physical classroom, but a torrent of near-revolutionary developments in the past month are proving that change is coming...
View Article7 wearable technologies being developed now
Keyglove Wearable technologies will be entering mainstream use in four to five years in the classroom. The 2013 NMC/EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative Horizon Report for Higher Education has identified some...
View ArticleA college degree is the new high school diploma
An increasing number of companies are requiring college degrees. It used to take just a high school diploma to get a low level job like a file clerk. Today, it takes a college degree: the new minimum...
View ArticleProviders of free online higher education add more schools, including foreign...
Coursera adds 29 universities and institutes to their online venture. Providers of free online higher education are expanding the ranks of universities that contribute courses to their Web sites. They...
View ArticleA deluge of new ed-tech accelerators
Kaplan and Pearson have unveiled their new startup programs. When it comes to picking an accelerator or incubator programs, ed-tech entrepreneurs will be spoiled by the choices. Education’s old...
View ArticleDaVinci Coders classes starting April 15th
What do startups like Groupon, Twitter, Living Social, and Guitar Hero all have in common? They are all fast-growing startups that built their business on Ruby on Rails. Rails is the best way for...
View ArticleHow many Ph.D.’s find academic jobs by graduation?
Not all Ph.D. students want a career as a tenured college professor. There are many fields, such as humanities, that spending your life buried in books and papers is the gold standard of success....
View ArticleApple’s iTunes U tops a billion downloads
Apple’s iTunes U Apple has reached an iTunes milestone. They have announced that the company’s iTunes U courses have topped a billion downloads. The company announced the news Thursday, saying...
View ArticleThe Half-Life of a College Education
Futurist Thomas Frey: Last week I went through the process of analyzing how much of what I learned in college that I’m still using today. This ends up being a difficult thing to assess. While most...
View ArticleThe future of education eliminates the classroom
The world is your classroom. If you and a group of friends are arguing about some piece of trivia and someone says, Let’s look this up on Wikipedia,” and then that person starts to read the information...
View ArticleWelcome to the future of education: Technology is changing the way students...
Technology will make education even more accessible and more reliable than it has today. Kevin Kelly told the audience at the 2007 EG Conference for youth and young adults that 10 years ago no one...
View Article17% of smart, poor kids apply to the wrong colleges
The majority of high-achieving kids from low-income backgrounds fail to apply to any selective colleges. Middle-class American high-school seniors with good grades go through a familiar ritual of the...
View ArticleDifference in unemployment by level of education
The question of whether college is “worth it” continues to be hot. Last week, the national unemployment rate fell from 7.9 percent to 7.7 percent after a strong Non-Farm Payrolls report. But the...
View ArticleMassive open online courses are transforming higher education and science
MOOCs: Internet-based teaching programs are designed to handle thousands of students simultaneously. Engineering, science, and technology have at the forefront of the massive open online course...
View Article8 free online courses entrepreneurs can’t miss
Entrepreneurs can hop online and hone their expertise for free. Education for entrepreneurs is slowly but surely becoming more mainstream. Traditional universities are offering entrepreneurs more tools...
View Article72% of MOOC professors don’t think their students deserve college credit
The actual number of professors who discount the quality of MOOCs is probably much higher than 72%. Seventy-two percent of professors who have taught Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) don’t believe...
View ArticleCredit Banks, Testing Centers, and Micro-Credits – Missing Elements of a...
Futurist Thomas Frey: A couple years ago I was on a weekend outing in Vail, Colorado and ended up attending a kayaking tournament taking place on the Gore Creek in the heart of town. Fascinated by...
View ArticleTop 10 Photos of the Week
Those who play with matches are likely to get burned! Quote of the Day: ”The trouble with being punctual is that nobody’s there to appreciate it.” – Franklin P. Jones . Well hello! But what’s with the...
View ArticleTop 10 Photos of the Week
When life gives you mud, feel free to get your hands dirty! Quote of the Week - “That’s it! You people have stood in my way long enough. I’m going to clown college!” – Homer Simpson . . . Yup, the...
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