“College campuses are hothouses of data, including course schedules, degree requirements, and grades. But much of the information remains spread out across software systems or locked on university servers. Now a crowd of start-ups has emerged with hopes of prying out those rich data sets to build an app economy for universities – a world of new personalized services that could transform the student experience …” (more)
[Nick DeSantis, Chronicle of Higher Education, 15 April]