Campus Technology: 50+ Percent Off! The Walmart of Education

Strategic Discussions on Technology

10/16/2013

Executive View

50+ Percent Off! The Walmart of Education
No, it's not about forcing the little guys out of business! Calvin College Senior Instructional Designer Daniel Christian explains a strategy that, with the use of technology, he hopes would result in a 50 percent or more savings to students on a higher education.
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Worth Noting

Online Learning Innovations Get Sloan Consortium Recognition
An online certificate program in food security, several programs of study that help educators learn how to deliver instruction online, and multi-degree program that includes online career fairs and webinars with experts were among the recipients of this year's innovation awards from Sloan Consortium (Sloan-C).
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UC San Diego To Deploy 2-Petaflop Supercomputer with $12 Million NSF Grant
The San Diego Supercomputer Center at the University of California, San Diego will deploy Comet, a machine capable of two quadrillion operations per second, or nearly two petaflops.
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Stanford Launches Online Innovation and Entrepreneurship Course
Stanford has launched Financing Innovation: Valuing Projects and Firms, the eighth course in its Innovation and Entrepreneurship Online Certificate Program.
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Cornell Enters MOOC Arena with 4 Courses
Cornell University will launch four massive open online courses next semester. The classes will be the first MOOCs offered by the university, which joined edX in May.
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IMS Global Learning Consortium Launches Connected Learning Innovation Challenge
IMS Global Learning Consortium has launched the Connected Learning Innovation Challenge in an effort to encourage plug and play integration of learning apps, tools, and content.
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McGraw-Hill Debuts On-demand Professional Development Program
A new on-demand professional development resource aims to help faculty get up to speed on emerging technologies.
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Desire2Learn Offers Alternative MOOC Platform, Integrates New Tools
Desire2Learn has introduced a new all-encompassing version of its flagship offering, Learning Suite, and has also launched a service for delivering MOOCs that integrates with the learning platform.
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Khan Adds Personal Tutoring To Help Identify Skills Gap
Khan Academy has added a new personal tutor feature designed to help students figure out where to start their lessons and to know when they have mastered the concepts.
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Curated Repository of Free Arts and Humanities Media Offers 16,000 Indexed Videos
CourseWorld, a non-profit initiative that relies solely on crowd-sourcing contributions from site users and freelance volunteers, has launched a free video library of educational videos focused entirely on arts and humanities materials.
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