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Western Governors University is known for innovation in pursuit of student success. Its latest initiative takes that out of school and deep into the hiring process.
04/20/2020
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Upcoming events include the STEAM Week 2020, OLC Ideate, and the Campus Technology Distance Learning Summit.
04/20/2020
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Amazon Web Services Education has introduced a set of free resources intended to help teachers and faculty in K-20 with their transitions to remote teaching and learning.
04/16/2020
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With nearly all campuses transitioning to online learning during the COVID-19 outbreak, California's community colleges will let students continue their science lab-based education by giving them access to virtual laboratories.
04/16/2020
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At last count, 4,235 higher education institutions across the United States have been impacted by the coronavirus pandemic — affecting an estimated 25,798,790 students, according to a visualization from Entangled Solutions.
04/16/2020
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Coursera has introduced a new tool that helps universities identify courses on the company's online learning platform that most closely match their on-campus offerings.
04/15/2020
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These practices will help engage students and improve outcomes throughout the online learning process.
04/15/2020
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Lamar University in Texas is using a chatbot to help share information with students during the coronavirus pandemic.
04/14/2020
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Johns Hopkins University has launched a United States-specific COVID-19 tracking map with comprehensive county- and state-level data.
04/13/2020
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Colleges and universities have been impelled, in recent weeks, to conduct nearly all academic and business processes online for our health and safety amid the hazards of COVID-19. Out of this, a persistent question has emerged: Are we really able to carry on the best values of higher education through our online presence? Gardner Campbell considers the question.
04/13/2020
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To take advantage of the momentum created by a quick switch from face-to-face courses to online version, one Texas university is ramping up plans for a major online summer session too. Rice University, which switched to distance learning in March in response to coronavirus, has decided to offer all of its summer courses online.
04/13/2020
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Upcoming events include the STEAM Week 2020, OLC Ideate, and the Campus Technology Distance Learning Summit.
04/13/2020
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CRM implementations are never easy; but choosing one that's cloud-based brings its own unique challenges.
04/09/2020
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COVID-19 is part of this year's Call for Code Global Challenge, run by the Clinton Global Initiative University and IBM. The challenge is a global program to entice students, developers and other problem solvers with both technical and non-technical backgrounds to create practical applications that use cloud, data and artificial intelligence and can make an "immediate and lasting impact on humanitarian issues."
04/09/2020
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A new analysis by App Annie has found that mobile education applications have experienced a 90 percent increase in weekly downloads usage worldwide between the last three months of 2019 and the first three months of 2020.
04/09/2020
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Researchers at Johns Hopkins University have turned to Twitter data to find out whether social distancing recommendations are having an effect in managing the COVID-19 pandemic.
04/08/2020
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Over the next two months, Kosovo's University for Business and Technology will be using the EON Reality platform to create 20,000 augmented/virtual reality lessons across a variety of subjects.
04/07/2020
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Two education organizations have created a free Apple iOS app to help demonstrate how far to stay away from other people to practice safe physical distancing. The program, "Social Distancing Trainer," was produced by Discovery Education and Afterschool Alliance. The app uses augmented reality to get the idea across.
04/07/2020