The Lumina Foundation has been pursuing the goal of recognizing and accepting for-credit microcredentials and learning experiences for several years, through their Connecting Credentials effort and the proposed framework they launched back in 2015 (http://connectingcredentials.org/). This framework seeks to define an architecture wherein competencies can be defined in structured sets that can lead to microcredentials that […]
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.
The University of Wyoming now uses an augmented reality platform with a simulated class as part of its teacher education program. To use the program, a teacher-in-training faces a camera and teaches a class of digital students that's projected onto a screen. Offsite actors impersonate students with voices and digital puppeteering. Presenting a lesson in […]
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What do you see as the biggest roadblock for finance offices at colleges in moving away from spreadsheet-based budgeting and financial planning? "The biggest roadblock is changing existing processes that are constrained by outdated technology. With a platform [that has] data integrations, linking, collaboration, control and a full audit trail, finance teams can create […]
If there's one thing clear from Blurred Lines: Rethinking Sex, Power and Consent on Campus (2017 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), it is that what you think you know about sex on campus is probably wrong. Vanessa Grigoriadis embedded herself in the campus environment, speaking candidly with students and administrators to find that the definition of sexual […]
Following the multiple hurricanes that struck the Gulf Coast this past September, several higher ed institutions used unmanned aerial vehicles or systems—or drones—to assess damage on campuses and beyond. In Daytona Beach, professors from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University assisted local police by providing images both before and after Hurricane Irma. Drones were flown over municipal, private […]
The American Society for Engineering Education, the pre-eminent authority on the education of engineering professionals, knew that associations for other disciplines had great success with Liaison-powered Centralized Application Services (CAS). Nathan Kahl, ASEE's managing director for communications and society advancement, thought it might be time to offer his member engineering schools the same benefits. After […]
Ricky Fuentes, the director of user services at Clovis Community College in New Mexico, was staring down two challenges: Providing dedicated servers upon request and refining the backup process on those servers. "If a department says they had software that needs a dedicated server, I would have to find a vendor to help build out […]
