Continued from part I. The University of Texas at Austin (UT) is one of the largest public universities in the United States. Founded in 1883, the university has grown from a single building, eight teachers, and 221 students to a 350-acre main campus with 21,000 faculty and staff, 17 colleges and schools, and more than...

Recently, Apple’s AppStore served up its 10 billionth app. But when me and my mobile learning partner, Todd Hitchcock paid a visit recently, we weren’t shopping. Rather, we wanted to discover what the App Store had to say about the current state of mobile learning in the Apple mobile ecosystem. In our forthcoming article Learning...

by Andrea Nierenberg For the last 15 years, I have spoken at colleges and universities around the country talking about what ‘real life networking’ is and how important it is to develop the skills that will help one get a job, keep it and get promoted. These types of interpersonal skills will serve students over...

As rising demand and declining budgets continue to strain community college systems across the U.S., the results of a new survey underscore the economy’s impact on students who are finding fewer courses available at their local community college, even as they are competing with greater numbers of their peers to attend them. In the first...

Last summer, leading distance learning innovators came together at the 2010 Distance Teaching and Learning Conference in Madison, Wisconsin. They predicted a decade of massive transformation. eLearning expert Jon Aleckson recently documented their predictions, and added some valuable insights of his own. Top takeaways: global interconnectedness, new technologies, and ubiquitous bandwidth will promote learners’ understanding...