"In God we trust. All others must bring data." —W. Edwards Deming Baby boomers look back nostalgically on the 1960s, some marching in the ranks of a war on the other side of the world and others marching on college campuses. It seemed a Golden Age of affordable tuition, manageable student debt, and good job […]
Online proctoring has taken off over the last 5 years. What are the main issues it attempts to solve? It's really three things. First, and foremost, it's trying to prevent students from cheating during an assessment. Second, it's about protecting the exam content, so students can't copy and share exam questions with others. And third, […]
Ten years ago, few universities employed chief information security officers. Now these administrators—known as CISOs—lead teams dedicated to shielding information, systems and research from internet thieves, and to keeping up with federal regulations. CISOs must ensure their schools are in compliance with a wide assortment of federal standards that pertain to the business of higher […]
The guiding principle for deploying new technology at the University of San Diego is simple: It has to improve the student experience. With that in mind, administrators there have developed an app store featuring apps that go beyond typical functions such as viewing course schedules. Two transaction-based features housed within its umbrella mySDMobile app are […]
Kate Wing, a senior at Smith College, will soon join the 14 percent. That is, the 14 percent of students who started their postsecondary education in a community college, then transferred to a four-year school and earned a bachelor's degree within six years of entry. "In general the pathways to transfer are not clear, and […]
Over ten years ago, members of the humanities division at Blinn College, a two-year community college with four campuses and 18,000 students in central Texas, long suspected students were either not submitting original copy or working with peers on projects when collaboration wasn't allowed. Teachers had performed Google searches whenever unoriginality was suspected but […]
If you haven't heard of blockchain yet, then it's time to add this term to your technology lexicon. The most widely known use of the technology to date has been bitcoin, but blockchain is ripe with possibilities that go far beyond digital currency, with the potential to impact many industries, including higher education. What is […]
Online faculty at Castleton University don't just dole out tests—they take them, too. Full- and part-time instructors who have no experience teaching online with Moodle's learning management system work through a self-paced, six-module course created by associate academic dean Cathy Kozlik. The course resides on a Vermont State Colleges System Moodle Sandbox website, where professors […]
MONTCLAIR, New Jersey—Montclair State had been a university for only a few years when Susan Cole took over as president in 1998. She wanted the job—her second presidency—because she saw vast, untapped potential on the campus of 12,000 students. She also felt certain that she could, pretty quickly, ensure the institution lived up to its […]
Video has become a common tool in classroom instruction. And as new pedagogies such as the flipped classroom and student recordings join established uses such as lecture capture and event live streaming, the amount of video most institutions create and manage will only grow. It's important to invest in a solution for video that can […]
