President Obama highlights SLCC’s Green Academy/Energy Institute during visit to Utah
While at Utah’s Hill Air Force Base last week on Friday, April 3, President Obama talked about the new Solar Ready Vets Program, which will use Salt Lake Community College to train transitioning military veterans for entry into the solar industry workforce. SLCC has been offering solar training since 2009 and was singled out during […]
University of Utah develops UOnline Initiative
From MOOCs to “flipped” classrooms, technology has forever changed how higher education is delivered to students. In the Utah System of Higher Education, one in four students take at least one class online, and 81 degrees and certificates are offered entirely online. The University of Utah has recently developed the UOnline Initiative to help meet […]
Technology in the Utah System of Higher Education
Technology plays a major role in higher education today, impacting everything from the delivery of course instruction and student experience in the classroom, to interaction with instructors and peers. Of the 167,317 students enrolled at a Utah System of Higher Education (USHE) institution in Fall 2014, over one in three (35.7%) are participating in some form of technology-delivered instruction. This […]