Once More with Insight: USD Students Get a Personal Assistant Mobile App

After too many years watching students struggle with the transition to college, mobile application developers at the University of San Diego are excited to watch this year's freshmen get organized and get ahead with a highly customized USD personal assistant mobile application.

Universities to Boost Student Grad Rates by 20 Percent

An alliance made up of 11 major universities across the United States has knocked its goal of graduating more students -- including more low-income students -- out of the park.

Wearables See Triple-Digit Growth

Wearables are not just for gadget enthusiasts and early adopters anymore. They've gone mass-market. More than 71 million wearables were shipped in the last year, according to a new report.

Education, Gaming Drive Virtual Reality Gear

Virtual reality devices will grow by nearly 85 percent for the next five years, driven in large part by gaming and educational applications, according to a new report from ABI Research.

Instructure Opens Up Canvas Network Data

Researchers can now access de-identified learning data from more than 230 massive open online courses (MOOCs) hosted on Instructure's Canvas Network.

Salesforce.org Launches Higher Ed Data Architecture

Salesforce.org, the philanthropic arm of Salesforce, has introduced its Higher Education Data Architecture, an open-source data architecture designed to help higher education institutions rapidly deploy Salesforce's constituent relationship management platform.

High Schoolers Take Top Spot at Cornell MakeaThon

Over the course of a weekend, 14 teams made up of college students and high schoolers identified problems, created working prototypes, pitched the audience on their ideas and did demos of their solutions as part of Cornell University's Make-a-Thon.

Report: Game-Based Learning Helps Students Develop Writing Skills

According to initial results from recent pilot, digital game-based learning improved student engagement and self-efficacy in writing courses at 14 colleges and universities.

MIT Project Lets Users Go Public with a Private Activity — Web Browsing

Interested in sharing what you're browsing with others? Right now, companies have the upper hand in that. They monitor your Web activities and then use that data to serve more of what they think you want in the form of banner ads — whether it's really wanted or not. A research team at MIT has developed a set of tools that deliver similar insights, but for the use of the people actually doing the browsing.

Gale Content Now Available Via Google, Google Scholar

Gale's library resources are now searchable by way of Google and Google Scholar.

ICEEEL 2017 : 19th International Conference on e-Education and e-Learning

Kurogo Higher Ed Mobile Conference 2016

Transformational Technology in Higher Education (formerly Campus Technology Forum)

OLC Innovate 2016

ACUTA Annual Conference & Exhibition 2016

OLC Collaborate

2016 NMC Summer Conference

The 16th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT)

Campus Technology 2016

Distance Teaching & Learning Conference

OLC Accelerate