No, a tablet is not a book of notepaper, and yes, students appear to be adopting them in a “crossing the chasm” type shift.  The Pearson Foundation’s second-annual survey asked 1,206 college students and 204 college-bound high-school seniors about tablet ownership. The results suggest students increasingly prefer to use the devices for reading, and that use [...]

Announced today, 2Tor releases apps for iOS and Android . John Katzman, the founder and CEO of 2tor, also writes that your alma mater may very well be in jeopardy.

Josh Fischman speaks with Paul Freedman, chief executive of Altius, on the topic of “transfer colleges” in this podcast recorded at the 2012 Digital Health Summit.

How do we make digital textbooks easier for professors to use and incorporate into the classroom experience? Josh Fischman speaks with Sean Devine, CEO of CourseSmart about some ways the publishers are improving the e-book experience in this podcast from the Chronicle of Higher Education.

January 11th Summit to Focus on e-books, e-texts, e-classes for 21st Century Higher Education NEW YORK, Jan. 3, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — Sun Microsystems Co-Founder Scott McNealy and NCTA President Michael Powell will join more than three-dozen key leaders to chart the future of higher education in the HigherEdTECH Summit on Wednesday, January 11 at 2012 [...]

Fox News channel 44 in Vermont announces the keynotes for the Higher Ed Tech summit at CES this month in Las Vegas.

PR-Inside.com publishes the details on speakers at the 2012 Higher Ed Tech summit this January in Las Vegas.

YPulse keeps you in the loop this month with all the latest youth-related tech events, including the annual Higher Ed Tech Summit at the 2012 CES, this January in Las Vegas. Be there or be analog.

First Annual Sterling Awards Call for Entries Now Open Winners of Best Products and Services for Americans Over  Age 50 will be announced atFourth Annual Silvers Summit at CES 2012 LAS VEGAS, October 11, 2011 – The Silvers Summit to be held for its fourth  year at the Consumer Electronics Show here in January, 2012 [...]

February 11, 2011, 2:24 pm By Josh Fischman Josh Gottheimer of the Federal Communications Commission, where he is senior counselor to the chairman, talks at the Higher Ed Tech Summit about how the FCC is opening up new “dark fiber” Internet connections to schools and colleges. He says this will allow more students to use [...]

February 9, 2011, 5:12 pm By Josh Fischman From the 2011 Higher Ed Tech Summit in Las Vegas, this Wired Campus podcast explores new Obama administration plans for enhancing educational technology. Karen Cator, director of the Office of Educational Technology at the U.S. Department of Education, talks about a new National Center for Advanced Research [...]

Audrey Watters. Folklorist and tech gypsy Posted: January 17, 2011 12:16 PM Many analysts are predicting 2011 will be the year of the tablet. And in his keynote address at CES’s Higher Ed Tech Summit last week, The Wall Street Journal’s Walt Mossberg said that he anticipates a deluge of tablets on campuses. They won’t [...]

Moving Bits and Atoms: Tablets Rule CES 2011 By Calvin Reid Jan 17, 2011 If it’s possible to identify a single moment of clarity at a convention that attracts more than 140,000 people, then I’d point to Wall Street Journal technology columnist Walter Mossberg’s talk at the recent Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Speaking [...]

Podcast: FCC Pushes Faster College Internet Access and ‘Learning on the Go’ The Chronicle of Higher Education Blogs – 02/11/11 14:24 Josh Gottheimer of the Federal Communications Commission, where he is senior counselor to the chairman, talks at the Higher Ed Tech Summit about how the …Commission, where he is senior counselor to the chairman, [...]

January 7, 2011, 3:43 pm By Josh Fischman Las Vegas—In his keynote address at the Higher Ed Tech Summit, Walt Mossberg, the influential technology columnist for The Wall Street Journal, told an audience of higher-education officials and company executives that their future held many tablet computers. And not just the iPad, but some of the [...]

January 6, 2011, 5:15 pm By Josh Fischman Las Vegas—Linda Thor, chancellor of the Foothill-De Anza Community College District, started a session here at the Higher Ed Tech Summit with a startling statistic: In her previous job, as president of Rio Salado College, the college improved online-course completion rates from 50 percent to upward of [...]

The weather’s turned cold, and I’m still grading as I write this. In between reading yet another set of term papers, I’ve perused a few current articles in education publications wherein higher-ed pundits pontificate on trends to watch in 2011. I find these articles highly amusing. What comes to my imagination is a panel of [...]