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Category Archives: Higher Education

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  India’s Cabinet Clears Three Key Education Bills

  Source: The Times of India

  May 14, 2012

  India’s cabinet has cleared three crucial pieces of legislation in the education sector, enabling mandatory accreditation of higher-education institutions and establishing innovation universities as hubs of excellence in research and innovation. The cabinet also cleared an…

  Related To: Higher Education, Policy & Governance, Teaching & Learning

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  Six-fold Return for England’s Economy on University Innovation Funding

  Source: University World News

  May 7, 2012

  According to a recent report sponsored by the Higher Education Funding Council for England, (HEFCE), every pound invested in higher education innovation funding adds at least £6 in knowledge-exchange income to the national economy. The report comes at…

  Related To: Higher Education, Policy & Governance, Research, Teaching & Learning

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  Harvard, MIT Partner to Provide Free Courses through edX

  Source: THE Journal

  May 2, 2012

  Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have partnered to launch edX, an initiative to offer free online courses worldwide and develop an open source platform to deliver them. The platform developed for MITx, an…

  Related To: Assessment & Curriculum, E-Learning, Higher Education, ICT in Education, Open Educational Resources, Primary/Secondary Education, Teaching & Learning

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  Britain Announces Plan to Make Publicly Financed Research Freely Available

  Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education

  May 2, 2012

  Throwing its weight behind open access, the British government has declared it wants to make all research paid for with public money freely available online. If it succeeds, the move is likely to have significant consequences…

  Related To: Higher Education, Open Educational Resources, Research, Teaching & Learning

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  New Web Tool Helps Track Community-College Progress

  Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education

  Apr 30, 2012

  The College Board Advocacy & Policy Center (U.S.) today released the Completion Arch, a free Web-based tool that aggregates and explains public data used to measure community-college students’ progress and success. The Completion Arch pulls from national, state,…

  Related To: Assessment & Curriculum, Higher Education, ICT in Education, Teaching & Learning

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  Community College Attendance Up, but Graduation Rates Remain Low

  Source: U.S. News & World Report

  Apr 23, 2012

  U.S. community colleges originally were designed to expand access to higher education. In recent years, however, they’ve been asked to put unemployed Americans back to work, quickly prepare students for specific technology jobs, and prepare others…

  Related To: Higher Education, Research, Teaching & Learning

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  Online-Education Start-Up Teams with Top-Ranked Universities to Offer Free Courses

  Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education

  Apr 18, 2012

  Last fall, Stanford computer-science professors Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller helped create an online course-hosting platform that opened some of the university’s classes to the world. Coursera, the start-up company that grew out of that effort,…

  Related To: E-Learning, Higher Education, ICT in Education, Open Educational Resources, Teaching & Learning

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  U.S. NEH-backed Program to Emphasize Civics and Humanities at Community Colleges

  Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education

  Apr 13, 2012

  Teams at 10 community colleges have been selected to participate in Bridging Cultures, a three-year curricular and faculty-development project that aims to support civic learning and humanities education. The program is financed by the National Endowment…

  Related To: Assessment & Curriculum, Higher Education, Policy & Governance, Professional Development, Teaching & Learning

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