Vanderbilt University, with the help of the Boston Consulting Group, conducted a comprehensive internal audit in 2015 to better understand its regulatory compliance costs. With just under 13,000 students, the Nashville university found that compliance cost $146 million in 2013-14, or 11 percent of the school’s non-hospital operating budget. The University of North Carolina’s 17 […]
Editor’s note: University Business welcomes the insights and opinions of educators and administrators on all topics. If you would like to contribute a guest column, please contact Tim Goral at [email protected]. Charles Isbell’s research passion is artificial intelligence, or AI. The senior associate dean for Georgia Tech’s College of Computing focuses on building “autonomous agents,” or […]
The University of Iowa adds narration in five languages to its online commencement videos so families from around the globe can experience their children's graduation.
Over the past decade, the eLearning team at Seminole State College of Florida saw video organically grow to become a regular part of students’ learning experiences. But as different instructors and departments were starting to adopt the technology, there was a lack of standardization, which quickly began to create a number of new challenges when […]
Event-related providers were asked: “What type of campus event could college administrators do a better job planning?” “Open houses and campus tours are great opportunities to engage prospective students and parents, but many colleges and universities are not getting the full return. Offering students more immediate ways to learn about or sign up for events […]
Montclair State partnered with the Sony Corporation to create what the New Jersey-based institution touts as the most technologically advanced broadcast and media production facility at a university. The new School of Communication and Media has broadcast-ready newsrooms, multimedia labs, production facilities, screening rooms and theaters filled with Sony equipment, including cameras and projectors. CHALLENGE: […]
Teenagers spend more of their time watching YouTube video clips than television, according to research from DEFY Media. Yet when they arrive at college, they’re suddenly expected to sit in classrooms, concentrating on 50-minute lectures. The disconnect between students’ digital lives and their classroom experience is narrowing as professors are increasingly embedding video in their […]
Eric Burns, co-founder and CEO, Panopto What are you seeing as the biggest trends in higher ed video? Lecture capture solutions are becoming as prevalent as email on college campuses, and institutions are using video in new ways to enhance pedagogy. For example, the flipped classroom has been something of a “silent revolution,” helping instructors reclaim class […]
D enise Swett has seen the same approach from several different companies when it comes to offering academic-planning solutions: Plenty of promises that do not fit the needs students at Foothill College, a community college in Northern California. "Everyone says they're going to solve our retention problems or graduation problems," says Swett, who has a […]
