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Online technologies are moving advising out of academic offices and onto the Web, where students gain anytime, anywhere access to advisers and tools to help them succeed. MoreUnder pressure to deliver more bang for the buck, traditional schools are launching competency-based degree programs that reward life experiences and give students demonstrable skills. MoreCompetency-based education can illuminate what time-based degrees do not. More
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The call for nominations for the 2014 CT Innovators Awards will begin Jan. 6. MoreSan Jose State University has gone back to the drawing board and tweaked delivery of a much-maligned program set up with MOOC provider Udacity. MoreA joint project of Stanford University and Carnegie Institution for Science will make forest monitoring tools and training freely available to allow people around the world to monitor the health of their forests through raw satellite images. MoreBenQ's new EW series monitors allow users to stream media -- including cloud-based content -- from their smartphones, laptops or game consoles for large-screen viewing. MoreAugsburg College in Minnesota has replaced its legacy backup system with a cloud-based solution that has reduced the amount of time system administrators spend managing backups and has reduced the amount of storage space required for backups. MoreAdobe Connect users have a new way to build games into their online sessions and foster discussion and interaction among meeting attendees. MoreHebrew University of Jerusalem new discovery service, HU Find, enables library users to conduct searches across multiple databases and the library's catalog, with a single search function. MoreA Stanford professor has unveiled a prototype of a scalable virtual lab for use in massive open online courses, at schools with limited lab equipment or even by members of the public. MoreOpenStax College, a nonprofit organization operating out of Rice University, has released its sixth free textbook in electronic format: Introductory Statistics. MoreCompletion rates for on-campus courses are only slightly higher than those for online courses, according to a new report from the WICHE Cooperative for Educational Technologies. More
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