UMaine System officials consider push for single accreditation - Nick McCrea, Bangor Daily News

As the University of Maine System eyes major structural changes in hopes of resolving its persistent financial struggles, it could take the ...

Babson Report That Says Online Learning Growth Is Slowing Misses Big Picture - Michael Horn, Forbes

Some research has suggested that the growth of online learning is flattening. Much of the reduction in the rate of growth is because one seg...

Creating Your Own Online Course? Avoid These Mistakes! - Priscila Hinkle, Huffington Post

The Internet has made it possible for us to explore different options, learn new skills, and embark in new careers with the click of a mouse...

Free Online Course Hopes To ‘Myth-Bust’ Controversial Topic Of Global Climate Change - Chris Spears, CBS4

Do you believe in global climate change? It’s not always an easy topic to discuss. If you want to learn more about the topic, researchers fr...

Studies: Online Courses Unsuccessful at Community Colleges - the Hechinger Report

Online instruction at community colleges isn’t working. Yet policymakers are continuing to fund programs to expand online courses at these s...

LSU Prepares Financial Exigency Plan - Inside Higher Ed

The Louisiana State University System is drafting a plan to declare financial exigency, The New Orleans Times-Picayune reported. Governor Bo...

Arizona State and edX Will Offer an Online Freshman Year, Open to All - Charles Huckabee, Chronicle of Higher Ed

Arizona State University is joining with the MOOC provider edX in a project that it says “reimagines the freshman year” and opens a new low-...

#Infographic on Mobile Learning Techologies - Citrix

The rapid evolution of technology is changing the way we learn, work and educate. Students want the freedom to learn and study using the lat...

Digital Learning Experiences: Future of the Textbook - Steven Mintz, Inside Higher Ed

What might the textbook of the future be like? One possibility is a digitized version of existing textbooks, supplemented with a wide array ...

UC delays release of admissions data amid budget negotiations - Katy Murphy, Mercury News

Amid a state budget standoff and a growing sense that a UC education is slipping out of reach for Californians, the University of California...

'Flipped classrooms' provide better approach for instruction of students - David Lockett, Daily News Journal

Flipping a classroom means switching the activities that normally occur at home versus in the classroom. Thus, rather than listening to an i...

Coursera’s Andrew Ng: How MOOCs Are Taking Local Knowledge Global - Knowledge@Wharton

In an interview about MOOCs and their impact, Ng says they allow universities to take their great content and project it onto a larger audie...

The Future of College: It’s Online - Daphne Koller of Coursera, Wall Street Journal

Online education, by reducing cost and removing physical barriers, can open doors of opportunity to millions of people who otherwise might n...

Poll finds widespread opposition to Walker budget ideas - Associated Press

A new poll shows strong opposition to key provisions of Gov. Scott Walker's budget to cut funding for K-12 public schools and the Univer...

Gen Ed Discounting or Devaluing? - Kellie Woodhouse, Inside Higher Ed

University of Akron plans to cut the cost of its general education courses by 86 percent and begin delivering them primarily online in an ef...

4 Ways the House Republican Budget Hurts Students - Equal Justice Works, Huffington Post

House Republicans recently released their proposed 2016 budget, and it is cause for concern. As emphasized in recent questioning by Rep. Mar...

U Arizona Girds for Online Undergrads - Dian Schaffhauser, Campus Technology

Now that the University of Arizona has launched an online campus, UA Online, the institution is ready to start up its first "General Ed...

Wharton online director: We want to help shape the future of learning - Roger Riddell, Education Dive

An early adopter in the space among its peers, Wharton was among the first to embrace MOOCs upon Coursera's launch in 2012. A Wharton Bu...

Ivy League schools key into online courses - Nancy Marshall-Genzer, Marketplace

Yale University’s School of Medicine is deciding whether to create an online version of its physician’s assistant master’s program. Its firs...

Disrupting Higher Education - John K. Waters, Campus Technology

Technology driven disruptive innovation in higher education "Disruption" is one of the most overused buzzwords in education today,...

The Texas Affordable Baccalaureate Program - Rebecca Klein-Collins and Kathleen Glancey, EDUCAUSE Review

A targeted collaboration among higher education entities in Texas addressed a key problem for would-be students and their families: affordab...

Internet of Things Data To Top 1.6 Zettabytes by 2020 -Rhea Kelly, Campus Technology

The volume of data captured by the Internet of Things (IoT) will exceed 1.6 zettabytes by 2020, according to a recent forecast from ABI Rese...

Students want better digital credentials - Ron Bethke, eCampus News

Innovation in online credentialing can help students better display learning outcomes and the value of their education to employers on socia...

What Harvard Business School Has Learned About Online Collaboration From HBX - Bharat N. AnandJanice H. HammondV.G. Narayanan, Harvard Business Review

In June 2014, Harvard Business School launched HBX, to focus on solving real-world business problems. Videos capturing real managers discuss...

Online Course Offers N.H. Primary Experience To Political Junkies Across Globe - MICHAEL BRINDLEY, New Hampshire Public Radio

A free online course this fall focused on the New Hampshire Primary is likely to attract political junkies from the Granite State and beyond...

Where Flipped Learning Research Is Going - David Raths, Campus Technology

While most agree that the flipped classroom model benefits learning, researchers are delving into the details and exploring the many facets ...

MIT creates new Online Education Policy Initiative - MIT

Through its newly created Online Education Policy Initiative (OEPI), made possible by a grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, MIT...

MOOCs for (a Year's) Credit - Carl Straumsheim, Inside Higher Ed

Arizona State University, in partnership with edX, this fall will begin to offer credit-bearing massive open online courses at a fraction of...

Someone Calculated How Many Adjunct Professors Are on Public Assistance, and the Number Is Startling - Jordan Weissmann, Slate

According to an analysis of census data by the University of California–Berkeley's Center for Labor Research and Education, 25 percent o...

Harvard Admissions Office Considers How To Weigh MOOCs - DAPHNE C. THOMPSON, Harvard Crimson

Among the familiar sea of acronyms surrounding college admissions―AP, IB, SAT, ACT―a new credential is popping up on applications that Harva...

Education Dept. Approves Two More Direct-Assessment Programs - Inside Higher Ed

The U.S. Department of Education has granted federal aid eligibility to two new academic programs that do not rely on the credit hour -- a f...

Corinthian Dismantling Continues - Michael Stratford, Inside Higher Ed

The U.S. Department of Education on Tuesday fined Corinthian Colleges nearly $30 million for misrepresenting job placement rates at its Heal...

North Carolina higher ed bill could prove disastrous for research - Tara García Mathewson, Education Dive

A bill proposed in North Carolina’s senate would require all public school professors to teach at least four courses per semester , potentia...

Inside Look at Ratings Plan - Michael Stratford, Inside Higher Ed

Inside Higher Ed obtained a copy of the department’s agreement with Research Triangle Institute (also called RTI International) last week af...

The Increasingly Digital Community College - Ashley A. Smith, Inside Higher Ed

Distance education at community colleges continues to increase even as overall enrollment at two-year institutions falls. A study released M...

Emerging Path to Federal Aid - Paul Fain, Inside Higher Ed

A scenario in which a student can use a Pell Grant to help pay for a bundle of edX courses no longer seems so far-fetched. Political support...

Public Colleges' Revenue Shift - Kellie Woodhouse, Inside Higher Ed

Tuition dollars made up roughly 47 percent of revenues for public higher education for the third straight year in 2014, cementing a trend in...

Embracing Failure to Spur Success: A New Collaborative Innovation Model - Kim Wilcox and Edward J. Ray, EDCUAUSE Review

On college and university campuses across the United States, we're surrounded by a resource that leads to discovery, innovation, and gro...

Google Applies Mobile-Friendly Criteria to Rankings Beginning Tuesday - Thanks to Shelly Palmer

Google is making a big change to its ranking algorithm tomorrow. For the first time, mobile usability will affect search results. If you don...

5 Lecture Capture Hacks for More Engaging Videos - Leila Meyer, Campus Technology

As more and more instructors flip their classrooms or teach online courses, it's become increasingly important to create videos that can...

9 accessibility steps for MOOC platforms - eCampus News

U.S. reaches settlement with edX to increase MOOC accessibility for those with disabilities. Under an agreement with the U.S. Department of ...

A Data Commons for Scientific Discovery - David Raths, Campus Technology

The Open Cloud Consortium is working to meet the collaboration and data-management needs of multi-institution big data projects. In 2008, a ...

5 universities taking innovation from buzzword to practice - Meris Stansbury, eCampus News

How universities are looking past incubators to future functionality. Are college and university investments in innovation worth the time an...

Keep gender in mind for course evaluations - the Daily Tarheel (letter to editor)

Recent research suggests that students rate female professors more harshly than male professors. When a female professor of an online course...

Fee payments lift MOOC completion rates - Tim Dodd, Financial Review

Students in massive open online courses (MOOC) who pay a modest amount for a "verified certificate" are just as likely finish thei...

UCLA Library to expand program promoting free, online course material - DANIEL AHN, Daily Bruin

UCLA, following the lead of many universities, is expanding an initiative to promote free, online course materials for students amid rising ...

The 'University Of Everywhere' Isn't For Everyone: The Future Of Learning Will Be A Big Tent - Andrew Kelly, Forbes

The point is: all of these ideas are part of the future of learning. Because the set of prospective students is large and diverse, that futu...

The Benefits of Adaptive Learning Technology - Kristen Hicks, Edudemic

Adaptive learning has long been a part of education. The basic concept is simple: Coursework should be adapted to meet the individual needs ...

The College Degrees And Skills Employers Most Want In 2015 - Susan Adams, Forbes

The hiring picture keeps getting better for college graduates. According to a new survey by the National Association of Colleges and Employe...

Coming to a business school near you: disruption - Margaret Andrews, University World News

Over the past few years it seems you can’t read about higher education without thinking about how ripe it is for disruption. Rising costs, e...

Tech-savvy seek dating help in online courses - Greta Kaul, Houston Chronicle

The 21st century version of the self-help book is an online course on how to get a date. And this is no tutorial on using Match.com but rath...

Report: Schools Should Focus More on Soft Skills - Joshua Bolkan, THE Journal

A new study from Wainhouse Research finds that a large minority, 39 percent, of education stakeholders say their schools should be doing a b...

Accreditation for alternative credentialing gaining traction - Tara García Mathewson, Education Dive

Multiple ideas to accredit alternative credentialing pathways are gaining traction in a push to expand opportunities for nontraditional, pos...

Higher Ed/Library Views Impact Final Net Neutrality Order - Jarret Cummings, EDUCAUSE

The FCC recently posted the full text of the network neutrality order it passed in late February. (Please see “FCC Votes to Restore Strong N...

7 THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT UNIVERSAL DESIGN FOR LEARNING - Janet Gronneberg (CAST, Inc.), Sam Johnston (CAST, Inc.), EDUCAUSE

Universal Design for Learning is a framework for the design of materials and instructional methods that are usable by a wide range of studen...

Arizona State U Teams with Private Partners on Adaptive Learning - Leila Meyer, Campus Technology

Arizona State University (ASU) has partnered with Cengage Learning and Knewton to develop new active learning systems for introductory cours...

Minnesota Course evaluations will go online in fall - Haley Hansen, Minnesota Daily

The comments and critiques students make on their course evaluation forms at the end of this semester may influence other students’ future c...

More Business Schools Launch Online MBA Degrees To Hone Digital Edge - Seb Murray, Business Because

Top business schools have been investing heavily in digital learning environments, as the full-time MBA loses some of its lustre to shorter,...

2014-15 AAUP Faculty Compensation Survey (searchable) - Inside Higher Ed

The annual AAUP Faculty Compensation Survey is the largest independent source of data on full-time faculty salary and benefits at two- and f...

3 Ways You Can Use Nontraditional Education to Win the War for talent - Barry Salzberg, Fast Company

Approximately 70% of those currently pursuing an undergraduate degree in the U.S. are not doing so in what is thought of as the "tradit...

University of Illinois increases free online college course development - Maggie Sullivan, Daily Illini

In an effort to compensate professors who spend time creating MOOCs, the University of Illinois Academic Senate is set to discuss a resoluti...

Harvard's Peter Bol, a leader in online learning, outlines the challenges and prospects ahead 0 Jennifer Doody, Harvard Gazette

I bring together three different areas. First is the Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching, which has been concerned with pedagogy di...

3,118 applicants accepted as freshmen by University of Florida, Gainesville required to take first year online - SOPHIE JANE EVANS, Daily Mail

More than 3,000 students are facing an unexpected decision after they received acceptance notices from the University of Florida - only to f...

Adult education models change; needs, passions remain - Mitch LeClair, St. Cloud Times

Options for adult education have adjusted to modern needs throughout history, but technological advancements of the last few decades have ac...

ACCA Debuts Online Learning Venture - MICHAEL COHN, Accounting Today

The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants has introduced ACCA-X, a set of online learning courses for accountants and financial pro...

Online Test-Takers Feel Anti-Cheating Software’s Uneasy Glare - NATASHA SINGER, NY Times

As universities and colleges around the country expand their online course offerings, many administrators are introducing new technologies t...

Caucus 101: Educating the world about Iowa caucuses -Jeff Charis-Carlson, Press Citizen

Steffen Schmidt has a voracious educational appetite. The Iowa State University political science professor, who answers to the nickname ...

Wake Forest University will offer online classes this summer - Alana Harrison, Old Gold & Black

Wake Forest University has developed its first online courses and will begin offering them during summer 2015. These online courses are an a...

Learning online offers many financial benefits - Jan Burns, Houston Chronicle

Though not all online programs have less expensive tuition than traditional schools, the associated costs can be lower. "The financial ...

Starbucks and Arizona State U. Will Expand Tuition-Discount Partnership - Goldie Blumenstyk, Chronicle of Higher Ed

Starbucks and Arizona State University announced on Monday that they will expand the full benefits of their tuition-discounting partnership ...

Online courses prep tomorrow's leaders - Valerie Sweeten, Houston Chronicle

According to www.onlinecolleges.org, students looking to pursue degrees online can find courses at every level, from an associate to a docto...

LinkedIn will acquire lynda.com in $1.5B deal - Roger Riddell, Education Dive

LinkedIn announced Thursday its plans to acquire lynda.com in a $1.5 billion cash-and-stock deal. Lynda.com's courses are focused on adu...

PAR Framework Partners with American Institutes for Research - Leila Meyer, Campus Technology

The Predictive Analytics Reporting (PAR) Framework has partnered with the American Institutes for Research (AIR) in an effort to develop new...

5 Ways to Ace Discussion Board Assignments in an Online Class - Devon Haynie, US News

If online students want to have a real conversation about class material, they have one place to do it: the discussion board, a major compon...

Emerging Path to Federal Aid - Paul Fain, Inside Higher Ed

Political support is building for a system to encourage and oversee higher education upstarts that don't look or act like colleges, such...

Comcast leapfrogs Google Fiber with new 2Gbps internet service - Vlad Savov, the Verge

Rollout begins in Atlanta next month and will reach 18 million American homes by the end of the year. The US cable giant, Comcast, is today ...

Louisiana Higher ed officials consider ‘doomsday’ funding scenario: 82 percent cut - ELIZABETH CRISP, the Advocate

Under what leaders are calling a “doomsday scenario,” Louisiana’s public universities and colleges would get about $123 million in state fun...

From MOOCs To Minerva: Higher Education And Beyond - Calvin Lemley, Forbes

The Minerva format focuses on seminar-based lessons, with instructors implementing methods such as pop quizzes, cold calls, and asking quest...

Engaging Students with a Mobile App - Joe Hoff, EDUCAUSE Review

Engaging first-year students in positive experiences can set the tone for the remainder of their educational careers. A major element of eng...

Game-Based Simulations Teach Environmental Science at ASU Online - Rhea Kelly, Campus Technology

To better engage its online learners, Arizona State University is piloting game-based simulations from Toolwire in its ASU Online environmen...

Make a Game Out of Learning - Chris Berdik, Campus Technology

In MIT’s Education Arcade, classic game consoles line the office corridor; rafters are strung with holiday lights; and inflatable, stuffed, ...