This year's grads have more debt than ever - Tara García Mathewson, Education

Continuing the trend of the last several decades, this year’s graduates have more debt than their predecessors. The Wall Street Journal repo...

Debt-Free College Catches On - Michael Stratford, Inside Higher Ed

After a concerted push over the past several months from liberals and progressive groups, Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign appears to...

Technology edging out humanities at Ohio colleges - Collin Binkley, The Columbus Dispatch

Fewer students are enrolling in humanities majors at Ohio colleges amid an upswing in the popularity of science and business programs, accor...

Feds say Miami University failed to accommodate disabled students - Collin Binkley, The Columbus Dispatch

Miami University has failed to accommodate students with disabilities and provide them the technology they need to learn, the U.S. Departmen...

Chief Digital Officers Continue Global Explosion: Number of CDOs worldwide will double this year to 2,000 - eMarketer Daily

CThe chief digital officer (CDO) role emerged alongside the digital transformation, and companies are rapidly making room for the position. ...

How to Make Online Learning Accessible for Students with Learning Challenges - Brent Betit, EdSurge

We know that students with learning disabilities may learn best in a human-mediated environment that takes into account their highly specifi...

Balancing Online Teaching Activities: Strategies for Optimizing Efficiency and Effectiveness - Deana M. Raffo et al, OJDLA

Increased demands in professional expectations have required online faculty to learn how to balance multiple roles in an open-ended, changin...

An Investigation of Personality Traits in Relation to Job Performance of Online Instructors - Charles P. Holmes et al, OJDLA

This quantitative study examined the relationship between the Big 5 personality traits and how they relate to online teacher effectiveness. ...

Oregon Trail and the true value of immersive gaming in the classroom - Suzi Wilczynski, eSchool News

What is it about Oregon Trail that had such a profound impact on us that we clearly remember the experience years later? Part of the answer ...

5 Free (or Low-Cost) Tools for Flipped Learning - Dennis Pierce, Campus Technology

From screencasting to interactive presentations, here are some resources to get a flipped class off the ground. Flipping the classroom typic...

Do Employers Value Online Degrees? - Heather Brown, CBS Minnesota

Do employers look at degrees from an online university differently? Good Question. “I think they’re still trying to figure out what online d...

Students’ class notes available online for a fee - Teresa Mackin, WISH TV

It was named one of the 12 companies “transforming education” to watch this year by Forbes. Flashnotes.com is a start-up company started sev...

Online learning is here to stay - Ruth Watkins, VPAA University of Utah, Deseret News

Today, three in four undergrads are considered "nontraditional" students. They may work while taking classes. They may have starte...

Berkeley to Stop Adding Lecture Videos to YouTube, Citing Budget Cuts - Jeffrey R. Young, Chronicle of Higher Ed

Since well before MOOCs emerged, the University of California at Berkeley has been giving away recordings of its lectures on YouTube and iTu...

Seven guidelines for ensuring a better online business programme - Paul Hunter, Training Journal

Undoubtedly MOOCs have their place for disciplined and curious individuals with an iron will, available time and a natural predisposition to...

What's The Secret To Effective Learning? - Nick Morgan, Forbes

What’s the secret to effective learning? A recent study by a group of neuroscientists from the University of California, the University of P...

Myth and Reality in the Crisis in College Affordability - Robert Hiltonsmith, Demos

In the past, state funding for education often rose and fell along with the economy: since higher education funding is viewed as “discretion...

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

Students are finding out that online programs can be an affordable education path. Though not all online programs have less expensive tuitio...

U.S. College Enrollment Has Dropped Nearly 2% Over Past Year - DOUGLAS BELKIN, Inside Higher Ed

The number of students at U.S. colleges and universities fell nearly 2% between May 2014 and this month, continuing a four-year slide, accor...

New Arizona State-edX MOOC: Another blow to traditional college - Stuart M. Butler, Brookings

Called the Global Freshman Academy, this is another important step in the revolution that is engulfing higher education. Recently Google and...

Stanford: Cheating technology is growing, and here’s why - Carla Rivera, Los Angeles Times

Cheating-friendly technology is becoming more common in competitive higher education settings, some say. Stanford University’s honor code da...

New Mexico, Vermont and Wyoming join SARA; National SARA board meets - NC-SARA

New Mexico and Wyoming have been approved by the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education (WICHE) to become members of the WICHE S...

Effective Social Media Practices and Good Online Teaching - Joshua Kim, Inside Higher Ed

I have this theory that if you are effective on social media then you stand a good chance of being effective in online teaching. How do thes...

Has the Flipped Classroom Already Become the Norm? - Panopto

Just eight years after the first example of a flipped classroom, the 2015 NMC Horizon Report has named the flipped classroom as one of the m...

How 3 prominent universities are becoming video trailblazers - Meris Stansbury, eCampus News

How three institutions are championing collaboration through interactive and streaming video across the academic world. Integrate with your ...

Families saving less for college, investing poorly - Kelli B. Grant, CNBC

A majority of Americans believe college is an investment in their child's future, but it's one they're not adequately preparing ...

Corinthian Colleges and regulatory neglect - Ben Miller, Press Democrat

For years, private for-profit colleges were Wall Street darlings. Robust margins and a business model that does best when the economy does w...

Essay by 25-year veteran of college adjunct teaching: Treadmill to Oblivion - Anonymous, Inside HIgher Ed

2015 is my 25th year of adjunct teaching. In the fall I will teach my 500th three-credit college course. I have put in many 14- to 16-hour d...

Politicians turn Florida into for-profit college paradise - MICHAEL VASQUEZ, Miami Herald

Students are a prized commodity at Florida’s for-profit colleges. Just two dozen can generate a million dollars in tuition by the time they ...

Study provides foundation for the future of digital higher education - Phys.org

A new, comprehensive metastudy of the role technology plays in higher education urges universities of tomorrow to capitalize on technologies...

UW-Fond du Lac offers online non-credit courses - University of Wisconsin-Fond du Lac

UW-Fond du Lac's Continuing Education Office is offering a selection of non-credit professional development and personal enrichment six-...

The Next Generation Digital Learning Environment: A Report on Research - Malcolm Brown, et al, EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative

In partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, EDUCAUSE explored the gaps between current learning management tools and a digi...

Stanford Council considers role of technology in teaching and learning - KATE CHESLEY, Stanford

Interactive, online technology will play an increasingly important role in improving higher education. But first, credentialing challenges m...

Incoming Harvard Law Students Will Be Offered Harvard Business School's Online Courses On Business Fundamentals - Harvard Business School

HBX Credential of Readiness (CORe)—the online business fundamentals program launched by Harvard Business School (HBS) last year to provide a...

Tandem classroom-online course aims to create international network of 'builders' - B. Rose Huber, Princeton

This spring semester Jennifer Widner, professor of politics and international affairs at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of...

College-Bound High Schoolers Finding Favor with Online Choices - Dian Schaffhauser, THE Journal

College-bound high school students are showing more interest in the blended model of instruction and less interest in going for the all face...

Wisconsin Universities Aren't Waiting For A Budget Before Starting Layoffs - Natalie Jackson, Huffington Post

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) hasn't even gotten his proposed budget cuts passed into law yet, but that's not stopping the state...

7 Reflections - Diana Oblinger, EDUCAUSE Review

As I retire from EDUCAUSE and look back on my time here, I would like to share seven reflections that illustrate beliefs and experiences sha...

CMU's Tepper Online Hybrid MBA: Equivalent to Onsite - Mary Grush, Campus Technology

Can an institution's new online offerings match the quality it has established over the years in its onsite programs? At CMU's Teppe...

Research: Short Online Interventions Can Improve Student Achievement- Leila Meyer, THE Journal

Researchers at Stanford University and the University of Texas, Austin studied the effect of short, online interventions on high school stud...

What are IT leaders worried about? Assessment readiness and money - Keith Krueger, eSchool News

A CoSN survey reveals CTO concerns about privacy, budgets, and assessment readiness. For the past three years, CoSN—the Consortium for Schoo...

Higher-ed leaders say this is the future of research universities - Meris Stansbury, eCampus News

University president says a new language is needed to secure funding and support. Inclusiveness, both of students and the community, is the ...

Is Learning Increasingly Self-Directed in the Digital Era? - Suren Ramasubbu, Huffington Post

It is vital that educators be trained to recognize and nurture self-directed learning using technology and be capable of creating learning e...

Coursera CEO: Colleges will survive the online education revolution - John A. Byrne, Fortune

His first year on the job has been a whirlwind, putting the 68-year-old educator at the forefront of a revolution in higher education. Just ...

Corinthian files for bankruptcy - Tara García, Education Dive

Corinthian files for bankruptcy - Tara García, Education Dive Corinthian Colleges Inc. moved into its final chapter this week, filing for ba...

UI may extend winter-break classes for two years - Johnathan Hettinger, Champaign News Gazette

After receiving strong positive responses to online courses offered over winter break, the University of Illinois is considering extending t...

Digital Tech Helps Budding Entrepreneurs Prosper In Online Business Courses - Seb Murray, Business Because

The rise of distance learning has put courses onto the web that are designed for those who want to run their own companies, and has paved th...

China advocates online open courses - Shanghai Daily

China's Ministry of Education issued a document supporting further application of online open courses in college education on Tuesday. C...

Incoming UMass president vows to increase online learning - WCVB

Incoming University of Massachusetts President Marty Meehan is vowing to expand online learning at the five-campus system. Meehan, the curr...

What If Students Could Fire Their Professors? - Anya Kamenetz, NPR

A bill circulating in the Iowa state Senate would rate professors' performance based on student evaluations. Just student evaluations. L...

Turnitin Announces Availability of Turnitin Scoring Engine for Automated Writing Assessment - University Business

To begin using Turnitin Scoring Engine, institutions provide their existing rubrics, along with a seed set of de-identified student essays a...

Hybrid law school program allows far-away students to earn degrees - G.M. FILISKO, ABA Journal

"The ABA was already allowing schools to provide one-third of their program through online learning," explains Eric Janus, Mitchel...

University of Illinois Announces All-MOOC M.B.A. - Carl Straumsheim, Inside Higher Ed

The program, known as iMBA, will deliver most of its course content through Specializations, Coursera’s term for course sequences. Students ...

Tools That Limit Distraction May Raise Student Performance in Online Classes - Casey Fabris, Chronicle of Higher Ed

For students taking courses online, the endless distractions of the Internet can be a hindrance to success. But using software to limit thos...

5 Women Just Designed an Online Game That Can Prevent Sexual Assault - Samantha Cowan, TakePart

Although India boasts the fastest-growing economy in the world, recent headlines have shed light on a darker side of the country: its sexual...

Wearable Teaching? College to Experiment With Apple Watch as Learning Tool - Jeffrey R. Young, Chronicle of Higher Ed

The experiment will begin this summer, with eight Apple Watches the university purchased for the project. Penn State plans to expand the res...

How E-Learning is Changing the Education Landscape in China - Thibaud Andre, Tech.co

E-learning has been one of the biggest recent online trends. China is currently the market showing the biggest growth. Among all the questio...

OLC and MERLOT merge scholarly journals - Stefanie Botelho, University Business

The Online Learning Consortium (OLC) and the Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching (MERLOT) community of the Cali...

U Wisconsin To Launch Online Master's of Data Science - Joshua Bolkan, Campus Technology

The University of Wisconsin will launch an online master's degree in data science. Classes for the 12-course, 36-credit program will beg...

LinkedIn's big bet may pay off - BLAYNE SLABBERT, Stuff NZ

Online learning is a booming business, and now one of the top tech companies has hooked into the industry. LinkedIn is buying the online edu...

What Will Keep the CIO Pipeline Flowing? - David Raths, Campus Technology

What skills and training will the next generation of CIOs require as technology becomes an essential part of teaching and learning? Where wi...

$2.4 million grant will help UCLA to make undergrad STEM courses more interactive, more effective - Stuart Wolpert, UCLA

A new four-year, $2.4 million grant from the National Science Foundation will help UCLA redesign some undergraduate courses to make them mor...

DeVry University will close Wisconsin campus, offer online classes only - Karen Herzog, Journal Sentinel

DeVry University, a for-profit college that has had a presence in downtown Milwaukee since 1983, announced Thursday it will close its only W...

At this college, you only pay if you pass (Arizona State Global Freshman Academy) - Emily DeRuy, Fusion

Arizona State University plans to offer a freshman year of college to anyone in the world with an internet connection – no application requi...

With online learning for feds, OPM sees narrowed skills gap - Jory Heckman, Federal News Radio

Federal employees and their families can now add online college to the list of benefits offered by the government. Following up on the succe...

HarvardX and MITx: Two Years of Open Online Courses Fall 2012-Summer 2014 - Harvard and MIT Researchers

What happens when well-known universities offer online courses, assessments, and certificates of completion for free? Early descriptions of ...

Does it really take longer to create an online course? - Meris Stansbury, eCampus News

165 instructors, who teach both online and face-to-face, from three diverse universities across the country, were surveyed. These instructor...

6 Tips for Creating a 'Mini' MOOC - Dian Schaffhauser, Campus Technology

There are ways to allow your institution to experiment with online courses, even if they're not intended to be "massive." An o...

UA to expand online presence - Kethia Kong, Daily Wildcat

The launch of UA Online comes at a timely period in higher education. For years, online learning has seen an unprecedented growth. In additi...