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Thursday, October 14, 2010

News: Shifting Market Shares - Inside Higher Ed

News: Shifting Market Shares - Inside Higher Ed

Shifting Market Shares

Blackboard's competitors gain, budget cuts continue, mobile apps and lecture capture look likely to grow, annual technology survey finds.

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Mobile Momentum and Doubts

Technology companies promote convenient versions of services, but some professors still worry that all that convenience comes at the expense of attention in class.

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Britain Goes to Market

Landmark report proposes that government slash teaching subsidies and let student fees rise, in expectation that competition and choice drive quality.

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Britain's Answer to 'Who Pays?'

Proposed changes in financing of country's higher education system -- which, like those in U.S. and elsewhere, seems unsustainable -- would shift burden from government to students.

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