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While many students have lost their internships for the summer over COVID-19 closures, a group of companies has come together to put coding students to work. Major League Hacking and GitHub have announced a remote internship program to support young developers by getting them involved with coding projects.
05/11/2020
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The University of Arizona plans to resume in-person classes this fall, after the state began statewide antibody testing with help of the university.
05/11/2020
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A new set of guidelines from the American College Health Association has provided a run-down of key considerations for safely reopening institutions of higher education as the COVID-19 pandemic slows.
05/11/2020
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Upcoming events include TDWI Virtual Summit, SANSFIRE 2020, and OLC Innovate 2020.
05/11/2020
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Does research at your institution have the visibility and impact it could? A new class of open source tools can be used to create a modernized, 21st century 'digital research ecosystem' that will help faculty and graduate researchers advance their research objectives and gain recognition for their work.
05/11/2020
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College and university advancement teams are evolving their strategies to help their institutions persist through uncertain times. Here are five examples to learn from.
05/08/2020
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When the University of Pennsylvania moved to virtual instruction for all classes and provided students with a pass/fail option, it turned to business process management software from BP Logix to automate the resulting workflow change in the registrar’s office.
05/08/2020
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Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) is launching a new interdisciplinary institute on AI.
05/07/2020
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The University of Arizona has expedited plans to launch a global campus, involving other institutions of higher education on five continents, to reach international students whose plans have been disrupted by COVID-19-induced campus closures, international travel restrictions or visa moratoriums.
05/07/2020
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A new report has identified five areas where colleges and universities will have to develop strength in order to woo future generations of international students: social engineering, sustainability, mindfulness, savvy use of technology and the ability to deliver a "transnational" education.
05/07/2020
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Video management company Panopto has launched a free tool to allow teachers and instructors to create and share recordings of their presentations and lectures.
05/07/2020
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Three universities have gone public with their use of remote laboratory equipment from National Instruments (NI) to give students hands-on practice with live data and instrumentation, even as they made the switch from in-person to remote classes.
05/06/2020
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Thunderbird School of Global Management, a school within Arizona State University, is planning for a robot-filled graduation. The institution will be using telepresence robots equipped with a tablet computer to provide video and audio of the graduating seniors.
05/06/2020
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MOOCs — massive open online courses — have become a major part of the online learning conversation with the advent of school closures due to coronavirus. Class Central, a site that tracks and catalogs the online learning platform segment, reported a "surge" of attention on MOOCs beginning on March 15, a date when "social distancing" became part of the common language.
05/06/2020
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Nearly half of faculty in a recent survey said they lowered their expectations about the amount of work they could expect from their students after the switch to online learning in response to school closures caused by COVID-19.
05/05/2020
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Video lectures may have worked as a stop-gap measure in the emergency move to online learning, but they just don't cut it for the long term. Here are nine ways to bring distance education courses to the next level.
05/05/2020
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In an April survey done by education technology vendor Top Hat, a quarter of college students said they're undecided about whether or not to continue their education in the fall.
05/04/2020
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The merger between learning materials companies Cengage and McGraw-Hill has been terminated by mutual agreement.
05/04/2020