Women Now Lead Men in College Attainment - Inside Higher Ed

For the first time in the 75 years that the U.S. Census Bureau has tracked college attainment, women are more likely than men to have a bach...

The Learning Paradigm in Online Courses - Rob Kelly, Faculty Focus

In their 1995 Change magazine article, “From Teaching to Learning—a New Paradigm for Undergraduate Education,” Robert B. Barr and John Tagg ...

U Michigan Scales Up MOOC Mission - Dian Schaffhauser, Campus Technology

The University of Michigan is expanding its MOOC presence. The institution, which was a founding partner in Coursera, will now be offering i...

Online college: is it for you? - Seth Stutman, Mass Appeal

Why are college students taking courses online? What are the advantages? What are the disadvantages? College planning expert, Paul Hemphill ...

Can Online Education Help Refugees Earn Degrees? - Ellen Wexler, Chronicle of Higher Ed

When refugees want to enter higher education, they often lack the paperwork. But in the past few months, some online universities have been ...

Number of new college grads declines - Stefanie Botelho, University Business

In 2013-14, as a percentage of all undergraduate degree recipients, new college graduates fell from 75 percent in 2010-11 to 71 percent in 2...

'Revolution in Higher Education' - Scott Jaschik, Inside Higher Ed

Richard DeMillo is Charlotte B. and Roger C. Warren Chair of Computing and director of the Center for 21st Century Universities at the Georg...

Cheaper and Smarter: Blowing Up College With Nanodegrees - KEVIN MANEY, Newsweek

A company called Udacity, partnering with Google, shows us that we’ve been focused on the wrong disruption. The big change won’t be the digi...

Getting an education at bargain basement price? Two colleges say yes - Trent Gillies, CNBC

Bucking the trend of annual tuition increases, two small private liberal arts colleges are actually cutting tuition next year — by more than...

Humanities Majors' Salaries - Scott Jaschik, Inside Higher Ed

The American Academy of Arts & Sciences -- an advocate for the humanities and general education -- is releasing a series of studies on t...

Farewell to America’s Small Colleges - Alia Wong, the Atlantic

Unfortunately, Sweet Briar’s future—along with that of similar higher-education institutions across the country—doesn’t look too sweet. Acco...

Online university offers refugees chance to study for free - ASTRID ZWEYNERT, Reuters

Kiron University, named after the centaur Chiron, known in Greek mythology for nurturing others in times of need, was founded last year by a...

5 Tips for Handling Grading in Large Online Classes - Anastasia Salter, Chronicle of Higher Ed

I’ve been chronicling my experiences this semester adapting my approach to teaching from my previous experience with small courses to a new ...

Discover the Weekly Number of Hours Online Students Study - Joe Chapman, US News

Year after year, one of the most common pieces of feedback I receive from students who are new to our online degree program is that they are...

EdX Overtakes Coursera in Number of Ivy League Partners - C. RAMSEY FAHS, Harvard Crimson

With the addition of Princeton to its list of partners, edX, the non-profit MOOC provider that Harvard and MIT founded in 2012, now has more...

Statistics grads still on the rise, but not quickly enough - Tara García Mathewson, Education Dive

Data from the National Center for Education Statistics shows explosive growth in the number of statistics grads since the 1990s, but experts...

Perkins Loan Program dies as Alexander blocks funding bill - Tara García Mathewson, Education Dive

The Federal Perkins Loan Program died Wednesday when Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN) prevented a one-year extension bill from making it out of t...

College Credit for a Boot Camp - Paul Fain, Inside Higher Ed

Students at Lynn University soon will be able to earn 15 credits by completing a 16-week academic program in technology design at a distant ...

ASU, Coursera to offer online courses for Latin American, US Hispanic students - Arizona State University

Arizona State University and Coursera announced Tuesday that they will offer open online professional-development courses targeted towards H...

Point-Counterpoint: Online classes are perfect for independent students - Kelly Wynne, College of DuPage Courier

Online learning allows me to take my education into my own hands. I know that if I don’t understand the material I cannot blame it on a teac...

Digital Learning Fosters Gen-Y Of Rural India - Aakash Chaudrhy, Business World

The introduction of digital education in rural India came with its own set of infrastructural issues. The erratic electricity supply and lac...

Micro-Master's Degree: MIT's New Model - Carl Straumsheim, Inside Higher Ed

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology will next year launch the first of what could be several pilots to determine if pieces of what it ...

Coursera, Udacity And The Future of Credentials - Ryan Craig, Forbes

Two high-profile companies are pursuing a badge-based future: Coursera and Udacity. Both began their lives as providers of Massive Open Onli...

Worldwide Demand for English Education: Can online learning rise to the challenge? - Charles McIntyre, EdTech

Two billion students will be learning English over the next decade, 80% of global companies say English is needed to succeed in their busine...

4 ways MOOCs are changing professional development - Sharon Florentine, CIO

Massive open online courses (MOOCs) offer an incredible value for enterprises looking to increase skills and knowledge within their workforc...

How to Kick Off Blended Learning (Hint: It’s Not Just About Tech) - Elena Sanina Freddy Esparza, Mark Montero, EdSurge

“Quantity of devices and well-developed adaptive software is the key to a successful blended learning implementation,” said no one ever! Wha...

New Orleans universities gradually embrace online courses - Jed Lipinski, The Times-Picayune

Prior to Hurricane Katrina, most colleges in New Orleans provided few if any online courses. But the widespread displacement that followed t...

Coursera Expands To Latin America In Big Ways - Brian Rashid, Forbes

Fifteen million people have made a choice. They chose to learn and grow and expand and advance. They sat in their apartments in New York Cit...

Digital badges hit the big time in higher ed - Matt ZalaznickUniversity Business

More institutions now offer digital badges as a form of micro-credential or “subdegree” to students who pass individual courses or certifica...

Virtual student unions provide communities for online learners - Kurt Eisele-Dyrli, University Business

Fulfilling a connection need: Troy University’s Trojan Cafe (left) has had more than 19,000 users in the past year, and Northern Virginia Co...

NCES data: Most college students are 'nontraditional' - Tara García Mathewson, Education Dive

Data from the U.S. Department of Education’s National Center for Education Statistics shows the vast majority of undergraduates are now clas...

US Dept of Ed Inspector General Issues Critical Audit on CBE Review Process - Paul Fain, Inside Higher Ed

The U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Inspector General has issued a critical audit on the review process that the Higher Learning Co...

'A Cat is Not a Dog' and Other Advice for Blended Learning Teachers - Audrey Mullen, EdSurge

We asked San Jose high school sophomore Audrey Mullen to share how she and her peers actually use various edtech tools and how they really f...

Is Your Learning Introvert-Friendly? Jennifer B. Kahnweiler, CIO

Make sure development suits introverted employees — they have more influence than their quiet dispositions might suggest. Imagine this scena...

Innovative humanities MOOC, “Visualizing Japan,” nominated for the Japan Prize - MIT

Shigeru Miyagawa, professor of linguistics and the Kochi-Manjiro Professor of Japanese Language and Culture at MIT, has earned a reputation ...

U of Toronto courses adopt the inverted classroom - Joshua Grondin, THE VARSITY

In an age of technology and readily available information, course instructors are experimenting with the inverted classroom teaching format....

Princeton faculty to begin offering courses on edX online platform - Michael Hotchkiss, Princeton University

Princeton University continues to broaden its online teaching and learning efforts and has become a charter member of the edX Consortium. As...

Why My Kids Finished Their MOOC—When Most Adults Don’t - Alex Hernandez, EdSurge

My 9-year-old twins recently completed a five-week MOOC (massive open online course). I thought I’d be a proud, high-fiving dad, but MOOC co...

Scenario-Based Learning in the Online Classroom - Rob Kelly, Faculty Focus

Scenario-based learning can be an effective way for students to apply what they have learned to realistic situations. There are many differe...

3 Things the Military Community Should Know About Online Learning - Darwin Green, US News

With online learning, military students don't have to worry about whether moving will interfere with their studies. It was the winter of...

Brits using online learning to boost career prospects - B Daily

Jobs today are changing faster than ever - too fast for the traditional education system to keep up and adequately train the next workforce....

Cornell partners with Fortune for online business education program - Claire Zillman, Fortune

Together, the Ivy League’s online learning group and the magazine are offering courses in business strategy. The online education market got...

Online course brings legendary Professor George Mosse to a new audience - the University of Wisconsin

George Mosse was one of the University of Wisconsin-Madison's iconic professors: a pioneering historian with a gift for connecting the p...

Hootsuite Launches Online Learning Portal for Classes on Social Media - Erika Morphy, CMS Wire

Vancouver, British Columbia-based Hootsuite debuted an online learning portal called Podium this week that’s devoted to classes on (what els...

Bipartisan Bill Creates Pilot Program for Alternative Accreditation Process - Senator Michael Bennet

U.S. Senators Michael Bennet (D-CO) and Marco Rubio (R-FL) today introduced a bill to create a voluntary, alternative system of accreditat...

Congress Lets Perkins Loan Program Lapse - Inside Higher Ed

The U.S. Senate failed to take action on a last-ditch effort to renew the federal Perkins Loan Program, letting the program lapse. Both hous...

Higher ed data security an ongoing process, not a problem to be solved - Tara García Mathewson, Education Dive

Higher education institutions won’t ever get to a point where they can stop worrying about protecting data, so the best strategy is to prepa...

Data Security in Higher Ed: A Moving Target - Michael Hart, Campus Technology

How do you make sure everybody with access to information on your campus knows what they have and how to keep it secure — in an ever-changin...

Academic Social Network Hopes to Change the Culture of Peer Review - Jeffrey R. Young, Chronicle of Higher Ed

An academic social network has added a tool it hopes will shake up the system of peer review. The network is called Academia.edu, and it has...

Rubrics Can Work Across Colleges - Dian Schaffhauser, Campus Technology

A cross-institutional experiment to see whether rubric-based assessments can scale and whether students are actually learning what the asses...

Growth In Online MBA Applications Outstrips Traditional Degree Formats - Seb Murray, Business Because

A growing number of online and flexible MBA programs have reported year-on-year growth in applications, more than traditional part-time and ...

Free online courses for designers, artists and creative pros offered by FutureLearn - Digital Arts UK

FutureLearn is kicking off free online courses for pros across branding, design, animation, VFX and more. The courses have been created usin...

College Degree Not Worth Cost?: New Gallup-Purdue Poll Finds Experiential Learning Valued - Jake New, Inside Higher Ed

Just half of college alumni “strongly agree” that their education was worth what they paid for it, according to the newest data from an ongo...

So you want to slash college debt? - Politico

Free college is unlikely in the U.S., but within the higher-ed world, everyone from college presidents to financiers have been hatching idea...

OnlyBoth benchmarks 1,899 private colleges - University Business

OnlyBoth today launched its collegiate financial benchmarking engine, which enables unbiased comparisons among 1,899 private, post-secondary...

Some Free Online Classes Can Help Your Career - Natalie Kiteroeff, Bloomberg

For all their problems, free online classes may have a net positive effect on your career. A new study shows that most people who took a fre...

Moody's: Smaller College Closures to Triple - Kellie Woodhouse, Inside Higher Ed

Closure rates of small colleges and universities will triple in the coming years, and mergers will double. Those are the predictions of a Mo...

Coursera's Hunt For Feedback Reveals A Divided World - George Anders, Forbes

Although Coursera got its start in Silicon Valley, the Mountain View, Calif., company has attracted an increasingly global user base in the ...

Poll: Most College Students Prefer Laptops Over Tablets for School - Michael Hart, Campus Technology

Even though tablet purchases are on the rise among college students, most of them still prefer to use laptops for learning. At the same time...

Tales From the Front Lines of Adaptive Learning - David Raths, Campus Technology

Implementing adaptive learning technology in college courses can be an uphill struggle but well worth it, according to pioneering faculty me...

Udacity partners with Google to expand nanodegree program to India - Leena Rao, Fortune

Online education company Udacity will start offering classes tailored to Indian students, marking the startup’s first effort to target a cou...

Which 100 universities are the most innovative? -eCampusNews

Stanford, Harvard, MIT top inaugural list focusing on innovative policies and practices. Stanford University, the Massachusetts Institute of...

"Your professor will never know!" The Must-Have College Accessory: Ringly - Jennifer Bett Communications

It’s back to school time, and there’s one must-have accessory for college students – Ringly! Ringly is a stylish ring that connects to your ...

EdTech Harnesses Big Data To Improve Student Learning - Seb Murray, Business Because

Business schools and their partners in the nascent edtech sector are exploring digital analytics to improve students’ academic performance. ...

Connected Classroom: Business Schools Partner Mooc Disruptors For Growth - Seb Murray, Business Because

The explosion of online learning has been a double edged sword for universities. Most are focused on providing the latest digital advances t...

WGU Texas chancellor explains online, competency-based approach - Ralph K.M. Haurwitz, American-Statesman

Veronica Vargas Stidvent became chancellor of the Texas arm of Western Governors University in June 2014. WGU occupies an unusual niche: It’...

UPCEA And OLC Form Coalition To Advance The Interests Of Non-Traditional Learners

The University Professional and Continuing Education Association (UPCEA) and the Online Learning Consortium (OLC) have formed a coalition to...

Learning about learning: Creating a connection - Michael Patrick Rutter, Harvard Gazette

Peter Bol, Harvard’s vice provost for advances in learning (VPAL), announced Thursday the formation of the VPAL Research Group. The organiza...

Udacity's new business model markets nanodegrees for in-demand skills - García Mathewson, Education Dive

No longer trying to tempt traditional students from higher education, Udacity's new model focuses on adults who have skills, but want to...

Digital Learning: Beyond the Copycat Model - Aaron Kim, Business to Community

The not-so-secret sauce to make the most of the new learning opportunities brought by the digital transformation movement is to combine the ...

Who’s Benefiting from MOOCs, and Why - Chen Zhenghao, et.al.; Harvard Business Review

Our latest research demonstrates that among learners who complete courses, MOOCs do have a real impact: 72% of survey respondents reported c...

Microdegrees Boost Tech Learning - ERIC NIILER, Discovery News

Technology jobs are changing so fast that some believe traditional four-year degrees may be out of date by the time the college graduate sta...

In Online Courses, Students Learn More by Doing Than by Watching - Ellen Wexler, Wired Campus

When students enroll in MOOCs, they almost always watch a series of video lectures. But just watching videos — without also engaging interac...

Guidance on Competency-Based Education - Inside Higher Ed

The U.S. Department Education said Tuesday it is poised to release an extensive reference guide for institutions that are participating in a...

7 Things You Should Know About Personalized Learning - Michael Feldstein, Phil Hill, Thomas Cavanagh, EDUCAUSE

Personalized learning provides a unique, highly focused learning path for each student. Individual attention from instructors isn’t feasible...

Why this GROOC will help you change the world - KARL MOORE, The Globe and Mail

This is Karl Moore of the Desautels Faculty of Management at McGill University, Talking Management for The Globe and Mail. Today I am deligh...

EdCast Launches New Interactive Learning Platform To Bridge Formal And Informal Learning - Jonathan Shieber, Tech Crunch

With an eye toward building what EdCast chief executive Karl Mehta calls “the next big social media company,” his company has launched a new...

What We’ve Learned From MOOCs - Candace Thille, John Mitchell and Mitchell Stevens, Inside Higher Ed

What no technology can solve is a failing business model for U.S. higher education. Citizens benefit most from education early in their live...

Universities Move to Flat-Rate Textbooks - Rhea Kelly, Campus Technology

Course materials management company Rafter today announced new agreements with several colleges and universities to deploy Rafter360, techno...

Survey: Librarians and Faculty a Mile Apart on Need for Better Communication - Dian Schaffhauser, Campus Technology

Faculty and librarians don't see eye to eye. While nearly every single academic librarian (98 percent) thinks there needs to be better c...

White House taps ASU to lead national STEM collaborative - University Business

The White House has chosen Arizona State University to lead the National STEM Collaborative, a consortium of 19 institutions of higher educa...

UMUC Plans to Create a Company to Help Colleges Harness Big Data - Ellen Wexler, Chronicle of Higher Ed

The Maryland Board of Regents on Friday approved the University of Maryland University College’s request to create a for-profit business-int...

On Campus: Tracking effects of UW budget cuts, work on tenure policies continues - NICO SAVIDGE, Madison.com

Campuses across the University of Wisconsin System are slashing hundreds of jobs as they cope with a $250 million state budget cut, accordin...

Obama administration unveils College Scorecard to praise and criticism - Tara García Mathewson, Education Dive

President Obama’s College Scorecard, a shadow of the college rating system he first proposed, went live late a week ago Friday with an incre...

Benefits outweigh downsides in case for online learning - Emma Williams, Arkansas State Herald

For many students at Arkansas State and across the country, online learning has significantly impacted their success in earning a college de...

Would-Be Disruptor Modern States Shifts Gears - Carl Straumsheim, Inside Higher Ed

Modern States Education Alliance, an organization initially billed as an accreditor for nontraditional providers of education, is changing i...

Free Freshman Year? Texas State Hopes To Try It Out - MATTHEW WATKINS TEXAS TRIBUNE

The Texas State University System has an idea for future students busy with families and jobs: Don't even show up on campus freshman yea...

UC Irvine Extension Launches Five New Online Specializations Through Coursera - UC Irvine

University of California, Irvine Extension, the continuing education unit of UC Irvine and an innovator in online and open education, today ...

Know Your Time Management Limits as an Online Student - John LaMar, US News

A full-time job and a full-time course load aren't workable for every online student. After closing five tabs on my Chrome Web browser a...

Looking to boost enrollment, N.C. A&T turns to online courses - John Newsom, News & Record

N.C. A&T last year became the largest historically black college in the nation. This year, A&T thinks it can grow even bigger. Unive...

Mobile Journaling App Helps Students Document Field Learning - Meg Lloyd, Campus Technology

Tying together timelines, note-taking, geolocation and multimedia, The Traveler provides a cutting-edge mobile journaling experience for stu...

Harvard Business School Begins Offering Credit for some Online Extension Courses - Campus Technology

Beginning in January, students who take select courses in Harvard Business School's online digital education initiative, also known as H...

The biggest potential, and biggest challenge, to Big Data in higher ed - Troy Williams, eCampus News

Slimming down the big data discussion to what really matters. The era of big data in higher education has arrived. However, it’s important f...

What learners do during MOOCs–and why it matters - Ron Bethke, eCampus News

A new report examines learner activities during MOOCs, and the importance of integrating certain tools. Course design may take a back seat t...

Choice of college major influences lifetime earnings more than simply getting a degree - University of Kansas

A new study based on longitudinal data confirms a college degree provides an advantage in lifetimes earnings, but a related decision once st...

Why Higher Ed Needs to Step Up Its IT Security Game - David Weldon, Campus Technology

Jane LeClair, chief operating officer at the National Cybersecurity Institute at Excelsior College in Washington, DC, recently stressed the ...

Why We Should Build Classes Around Mobile Tech -Toni Fuhrman, Campus Technology

Using an app he created, in classes he has configured around mobile technology, Ronald Yaros is preparing his students for a future that wil...

Will future global development education be short and online? - Kelli Rogers, Devex

Short-term courses and certificates are gaining ground, especially for mid-career professionals who might not have the wish, time or money t...

Perkins Loan Program on the federal budget chopping block - WMTV

In another fight to spread education opportunities, lawmakers on Capitol Hill are up against a pressing deadline. The latest deadline is to ...

Soaring Student Loan Burden Poses Risk To Economic Growth - Jim Puzzanghera, Los Angeles Times

Students around the country — and often their parents — have racked up so much college debt since the recession that it now threatens the na...

Is E-learning the future? - Stephen Chartrand, Brock Press

Despite the stereotype that university students are beer-guzzling spendthrifts, the reality is that most students today have to take on one ...

Ball State University on-campus enrollment down, online brings total up - Seth Slabaugh, Star-Press

On-campus enrollment at Ball State University has dropped for the fourth consecutive year, but overall enrollment is up as the number of onl...

Which college degrees are in the most, least demand? by GREG HINZ, Crain's Chicago

"While it's encouraging to see accelerated growth in STEM-related college programs, the slowdown in overall degree completions—espe...

Udacity, Coursera and edX Now Claim Over 24 Million Students - EdSurge

Shortly after the “Big Three” MOOC providers launched in 2012, nearly everyone focused on user numbers as a sign of their scale and reach. F...

The New College Scorecard Revealed - Michael Stratford, Inside Higher Ed

The Obama administration over the weekend unveiled the revamped college information website it created instead of its original plan to rate ...

Gamifying the Educational Experience - Steven Mintz, Inside Higher Ed

Many parents and some psychologists decry videogames as a waste of time – or worse, as actually harmful. Videogames, according to this view,...

U-Michigan to Invest $100M in Big Data Initiative - Greg Slabodkin, Health Data Management

The University of Michigan over five years will invest $100 million in a big data initiative with researchers seeking insights in four targe...

Future of higher education - Rosebank College, Johannesburg

What does the future of higher education look like? According to Moses Motha, Teaching and Learning Manager at Rosebank College, a brand of ...