San Jose State University News

On the heels of faculty backlashes to massive open online courses, three universities have pulled out of an online learning program with education company 2U.

I have a new post up at the Center for Information Research and Innovation blog at the San Jose State University School of Library and Information Science: Although educators and scholars are debating the advantages and downsides of MOOCs, with many asserting that MOOCs have the potential to provide new insight regarding online learning, research ... (more)

In a seemingly quixotic quest, an East Bay businessman who is a dual Iranian and U.S. citizen has thrown his hat into the ring to be Iran's next president.

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Professors across the U.S. are criticizing a rush to offer free online college courses, challenging a movement designed to spread knowledge and reduce higher-education costs.

Monta Vista High School English teacher Mikki McMillion recently received the Excellence in Education award at the 11th annual Goldin Foundation Educators Forum hosted by the Los Gatos-Saratoga Joint Union High School District.

It's a result only a mathematician could love. Researchers hoping to get '2' as the answer for a long-sought proof involving pairs of prime numbers are celebrating the fact that a mathematician has wrestled the value down from infinity to 70 million.

San Jose State University faculty recently decided the best way to address scientific criticisms of alarmist global warming theory was to burn the books containing such criticisms .

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A municipal credit research group has published credit scores for 260 California cities calculated with an open source credit model.

When her name was announced and she realized all her hard work had earned her a life-altering reward, Devon Pollard briefly appeared to go numb.

Arturo HilarioEl ObservadorAt a theater room in an engineering building at San Jose State University a large drum rang through the walls at the commencement of a community lecture by author Luis J. Rodriguez.

San Jose State University did not discipline an instructor who admitted to crossing the line with a female student in his office A San Jose State student says she was sexually assaulted in her professor's office.

Several members of the San Lorenzo Valley High School community will be recognized Saturday, May 11, for their leadership and support efforts for the campus' Gay-Straight Alliance at the 16th annual Queer Youth Leadership Awards at Pajaro Valley High School in Watsonville.

The union representing professors at San Jose State University wrote the following statement expressing concerns about recent efforts by the university's president, Mohammad H. Qayoumi, to work with commercial MOOC providers.

No one can accuse the Rolling Stones' "50 and Counting" concerts of being the same for every show because not only are the set lists changed for every show but there are also different guest performers at every concert.

San Jose State University's Dr. Alison Bridger holds a lit match beneath a book that claims global warming is "natural" as assistant professor Craig Clements looks on last month.

Airborne drones, data mining, and MOOCs were among the features of our digital life whose bleaker side drew scholars to a conference last weekend at the U. of Wisconsin at Milwaukee.

While the popularity of online learning cannot be denied, there is another side to the increasing online course presence at universities across the nation.

Scientist William Borucki conceived, designed and now is leading NASA's Kepler space mission that will bring the world a step closer to knowing whether life exists on other planets.