This is a disturbing infographic about the current state of education in the U.S..
At USAToday.com…via INFOGRAPHIC: Unprepared for college | USA TODAY College.
Mar 012013
Feb 262013
I’ve been waiting for months for one of these, that’s beside the point. This is just awful.
By Nate Anderson at arstechnica.com…
Marmet, West Virginia is a town of 1,500 people living in a thin ribbon along the banks of the Kanawha River just below Charleston. The town’s public library is only open Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays. It’s housed in a small building the size of a trailer, which the state of West Virginia describes as an “extremely small facility with only one Internet connection.” Which is why it’s such a surprise to learn the Marmet Public Library runs this connection through a $15,000 to $20,000 Cisco 3945 router intended for “mid-size to large deployments,” according to Cisco.
via Why a one-room West Virginia library runs a $20,000 Cisco router | Ars Technica.
Feb 232013
ATHENS, W.Va. – Concord University will host the community premiere of “Three Rivers: The Bluestone, Gauley and New” on Wednesday, Feb. 27. The 90-minute documentary, produced by West Virginia Public Broadcasting, will be shown in the main theatre of the Fine Arts Center beginning at 5 p.m.
Jan 112013
By Rip Empson at TechCrunch.com…
Coursera Takes A Big Step Toward Monetization, Now Lets Students Earn “Verified Certificates” For A Fee
Jan 032013
The Year Ahead in IT, 2013
January 3, 2013 – 3:00am
By
Lev Gonick
via Predictions about higher ed technology in 2013 (essay) | Inside Higher Ed.
Dec 202012
This is one of the best articles to date on where we are with technology and society in higher education today. By Nathan Harden at The American Interest…
In fifty years, if not much sooner, half of the roughly 4,500 colleges and universities now operating in the United States will have ceased to exist.
via The End of the University as We Know It – Nathan Harden – The American Interest Magazine.
Dec 142012
By Chris Proulx at Forbes.com…
2012 was a transformative year in education. Between the introduction of the MOOC (the ‘Massive Open Online Course’), and the explosive growth in the number of online offerings, all eyes were on higher ed. In the past twelve months, students were increasingly able to learn from leading faculty at elite institutions beyond the four walls of their classrooms, and soon, professors will be collaborating across universities to collectively create and distribute for-credit curriculum for an online semester. New high growth players entered the online education marketplace, and universities began to align around interactive platforms. As online certificate programs became more robust and hyper-targeted towards professional development, more and more students looked to gain these credentials as a differentiator in the work force.
via 5 Ways Technology Will Impact Higher Ed in 2013 – Forbes.
Dec 142012
From The Chronicle…
Martin Bean, vice chancellor of the Open U., says the new venture will have a “distinctly British” twist.
Earlier this month, one of Britain’s top newspapers noticed a glaring absence on the British education scene: MOOC’s. “U.K. universities are wary of getting on board the MOOC train,” read The Guardian’s headline. Two institutions, the Universities of Edinburgh and London, have recently signed on to offer massive open online courses via the American company Coursera. Yet in Britain, said the newspaper, “there is scarcely a whiff of the evangelism and excitement bubbling away in America, where venture capitalists and leading universities are ploughing millions” into MOOC’s.