Increasing Student Engagement Through Mobile Apps and Software
By Rob Sabo The days of breezing through college without hardly creasing the bindings of required textbooks may be coming to an end. Professors in today’s digital classrooms employ more educational...
View ArticleNew York Film Academy Uses Content Marketing to Attract Potential Students
Students at the New York Film Academy represent a wide variety of demographics in terms of age, nationality, and background. The one thing every student there shares is simple: they are passionate...
View ArticleInterview | Staying On Coursmos
As hyped as MOOCs may be, according to recent stats (see TIME magazine) fewer than 10 percent of people actually finish their massive open online course, a massive problem says Pavel Dmitriev,...
View ArticleThe Rise and Fall of Kno—In Search of a Solution without a Problem?
Last Friday we learned from Intel Education that it acquired digital textbook maker Kno. The sum was undisclosed and the announcement itself pretty short. Intel is excited to welcome the team to the...
View ArticleHow Can Campus IT Departments Be More Student-Focused?
By Justin Boyle Each passing year in education brings with it a host of technological innovations, and it’s fair to say that just adjusting to online course content, BYOD classrooms, e-textbooks and...
View ArticleTop 10 Cloud Computing Posts of 2013
As 2013 draws to a close, it’s fun to look back and see what we’ve accomplished. Here at EdCetera, we’ve explored the issues related to cloud computing in higher ed and provided information about some...
View ArticleThe Future: What 32 Ed Leaders Are Excited About
“The Future: What 32 Ed Leaders Are Excited About” by Tom Vander Ark was originally published on Getting Smart. With two historic shifts under way simultaneously—the adoption of common college- and...
View ArticleCan Software Take Grading Off a Professor’s To Do List?
No professor wistfully lists grading papers as the reason they went into education, or as one of the job’s most rewarding components. The task, crucial to tracking the progress of students, tends to...
View Article5 Resources to Help You Flip Your College Classroom
So you want to flip your classroom. That means creating a ton of lecture videos and hosting them on your college’s learning management system or online, right? Not necessarily. There are some great...
View ArticleDigital Humanities in a MOOC Age
Art. History. Philosophy. The humanities study how people process and record their lives and ideas. In other words, they channel the human experience. As such, humanities courses tend to be small and...
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