C-Level View: Faculty Success Means Student Success: Supporting Online Faculty

Strategic Discussions on Technology

3/17/2015

Executive View

Faculty Success Means Student Success: Supporting Online Faculty
The push for "student success" is all around us. But what about the notion of "faculty success"? CT talked recently with Michael Cottam, who believes that supporting his institution's online faculty is the most important element of creating student success at Webster University.
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$9.6 Million in Grants To Boost Community College Completion in North Carolina
A collection of grants from the John M. Belk Endowment totaling $9.6 million aims to increase community college completion in North Carolina, create career pathways for more students and strengthen the state's workforce.
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Carnegie Mellon, U Pittsburgh Team with Pittsburgh Medical Center on Big Data Health Care Initiative
Carnegie Mellon University, University of Pittsburgh and University of Pittsburgh Medical Center have teamed up to explore ways big data can improve health care.
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MIT Hackathon Tackles Technologies To Benefit the Disabled
An assistive technologies hackathon at MIT late last month came up with innovations for assisting people with everything from cerebral palsy and paraplegia to hearing and visual impairments.
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Gartner: Student Success Driving Education IT More than Anything Else
Student success and the reinvention of academic credits top the list of business trends that are currently influencing education, according to a recent report from Gartner.
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UC Irvine Opens Chemistry Lectures Online
The University of California, Irvine has kicked off an "Open Chemistry" project that makes lectures from 16 separate undergraduate and graduate courses freely available online.
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Rutgers Offers Online Course on Video Sharing
The Rutgers Business School Executive Education program will offer an online course, dubbed a "mini-MBA," in viral video marketing.
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Penn State Expands Online Master of Ed Program
Pennsylvania State University has expanded its online Master of Education in Curriculum and Instruction to include five areas of emphasis for students to choose from.
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U Michigan's Sirius Sees Things Siri Is Blind to
Virtual intelligent personal assistants — think Siri, Cortana or Now — are about to go open source. A team of researchers at the University of Michigan has developed an open standalone speech- and vision-based IPA service similar to what Apple, Microsoft and Google have introduced into their products.
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MakerBot Debuts Starter Labs for Ready-to-Go 3D Printing
MakerBot has launched Starter Labs, kits designed to help educational institutions get 3D printing systems set up quickly.
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Versal, Wolfram Partner To Facilitate Online Course Creation
Versal and Wolfram Research are joining forces to make it easier for teachers to insert interactive elements into the online courses and other learning experiences they create — without coding.
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