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 ...

Udemy sees 200% rise in revenue, online learning demand increases - Natalie Marsh, the Pie News

Online learning platform, Udemy, has seen an increase in revenue of 200% year on year, as the demand for skills-based online learning increa...

As textbook prices skyrocket, college students, professors seek alternatives - TREVOR METCALFE, Register-Bee

Danville Community College student Jessica Newman is taking 18 credit hours this fall, with a tuition price tag of about $2,500. When Newman...

Oakland Community College may halt most online classes - Kim Kozlowski, The Detroit News

Oakland Community College plans to reapply for accreditation for a virtual campus, hoping to undo a snag that could lead to most of its onli...

Can MOOCs make the grade for federal training? - Bianca Spinosa, FCW

So given the increasing demand for workers with cybersecurity and data analytics skills, could MOOCs be one of the keys to federal training ...

5 Steps for Adopting Virtual Learning for the Government Worker - FRIEDA K. EDGETTE, NATALIE S. MATTHEWS, Government Technology

It's gotten harder to get government workers the training they need. Online learning can help to fill the gap. GovLoop, an online traini...

@ISSUE: Compelling statistics on distance learning - BORIS VILIC, Courier-Post

Over the last decade, we have witnessed tremendous changes in distance learning. For example, in 2014 a record-breaking 5.2 million higher e...

CBE Approvals: Tugged in Two Directions - Paul Fain, Inside Higher Ed

A surge in new competency-based degree programs has created challenges for the accreditors tasked with approving them. They must seek to ens...

Meet GROOC: McGill's new online course has a group-learning twist - JENNIFER LEWINGTON, The Globe and Mail

First came the MOOCs, referring to massive open online courses that offer free access to higher-education learning through the Internet. Now...

Why a college degree isn't worth what it once was - Jeff Spross, the Week

In this world, a college degree is essentially a "fire me last" sign. As rising inequality bumps less-educated people off the twig...

Competency-based programs reimagine college credit Sherrie Negrea, University Business

After years of quiet evolution, the competency-based education movement is now poised for explosive growth, with several hundred colleges an...

Keeping Up With Competency - Paul Fain, Inside Higher Ed

Roughly 600 colleges are in the design phase for a new competency-based education program, are actively creating one or already have a progr...

Penn State launches new program to teach grad students to teach online - Hilary Appelman, Penn State

Graduate students traditionally teach the way they were taught. But more and more they are finding themselves teaching in online classrooms,...

EdX Users Cheat Through MOOC-Specific Method, Study Says - C. RAMSEY FAHS, Harvard Crimson

Roughly 1 percent of certificates granted by Harvard’s and MIT’s school-specific edX platforms were earned by users engaging in a form of ch...

Free Online Course Connects Ex-Inmates With The Job Skills They Need - Joseph Erbentraut, The Huffington Post

Imagine this scenario: Instead of a judge sentencing an offender to hundreds of hours of community service while behind bars, they are sente...

Harvard launches new 'virtual classroom,' where students watch class from anywhere - Collin Binkley, The Associated Press

The newest classroom at Harvard's business school has no desks or chairs. Instead, the professor teaches facing a towering digital scree...

McGill U, EdX Partner on MOOC for Groups - Joshua Bolkan, Campus Technology

McGill University is partnering with edX to launch what they institutions are calling a "GROOC," or a massive open online course (...

The Online College Revolution #infographic - College Choice

This infographic highlights data related to the growth of online learning. Online learning has already disrupted higher education, as more a...

ASU Global Freshman Academy diverse platforms designed to enhance online learning experience - Arizona State University

The Global Freshman Academy is unique in many ways — allowing students to take classes before deciding whether to pay for the credit, chargi...

Penn reaches all corners of the globe through online learning - CAROLINE SIMON, Daily Pennsylvanian

It can be difficult to reach people from all corners of the globe, but Penn professor Brian Bushee’s financial accounting course, offered th...

3 tips for alternative credentialing - Laura Devaney, eCampus News

To create a strategic framework for alternative credntialing Eduventures is recommending that institutions focus on the following three prio...

Is College Even Still Worth It? - Laura Shin, Forbes

“On virtually every measure of economic well-being and career attainment—from personal earnings to job satisfaction to the share employed fu...

Higher Education's Faulty Economics: How We Got Here - Tom Lindsay, Forbes

But while the proposals differ, their differences are less important than what they share. What they all have in common is a fundamental mis...

Colleges embrace the question 'How can we do that online?' - Amy Lane, Crain's Detroit Business

"The challenge is keeping up with the pace of advances, and technology, and try not to follow the fads, and just stick to what is good ...

Robots tighten gap in distance learning - KIRK PINHO, Crain's Detroit

Christine Greenhow, assistant professor of counseling, educational psychology and special education at Michigan State University's Colle...

Massive online courses grow; what's in it for the universities? - Kirk Pinho, Crain's Detroit

Depending on whom you ask, universities benefit in a few different ways. For some, the upside is that the courses may sow seeds for the MOOC...

Buying Books on a Budget - Ariele Vaccaro, Milwaukee Courier

It’s nothing new to you, but the painful sting of knowing your bank account has just been emptied always seems to linger even after you’ve l...

New qualitative research explores students' MOOC concerns - Tara García Mathewson, Education Dive

A new qualitative study asks traditional college students what they think about massive open online courses, finding a number of concerns th...

E-Advisement: Technology-Supported Advising Services - Jimmy Solis, EDUCAUSE Review

Applying technology to the process of general academic advisement yields the more flexible, mobile approach called e-advisement, as explaine...

Getting an MBA while you're on the road: How to pull it off - Anne Fisher, Fortune

Studying on the fly will present some challenges, but it can be done. Lara Martini, who is Microsoft’s director of commercial markets strate...

University of Alberta offers popular ‘Dino 101’ course in app form - Emily Mertz, Global News

It first paved the way as a free, online course open to all and now Dino 101 is being offered as an electronic textbook in app form. The Uni...

UMUC to eliminate textbooks - Associated Press

The University of Maryland University College plans to eliminate textbooks this fall to save students money by using resources online. Kara ...

OpenStax texts predicted to save students $25 million - eCampus News

Rice University-based nonprofit OpenStax College has unveiled three new textbooks and said its growing catalog of free textbooks will save s...

Minecraft in the Classroom - Chris Havergal, Times Higher Education

In lists of the next big higher education technology trends, Minecraft may not figure too highly. But that could be about to change, with a ...

Penn State Starts Network for Entrepreneurs With Focus on Online Learning - Mary Ellen McIntire, Chronicle of Higher Ed

Education-technology companies are hot these days. So are online programs by universities. Pennsylvania State University hopes to tap into b...

The Move from Course Management to Course Networking - Mary Grush, Campus Technology

Over the past 18-plus years, LMS pioneer-developer Ali Jafari has applied his extensive research in learning technologies to the creation of...

E-Texts and the Future of the College Bookstore - Rand Spiwak, Campus Technology

The acceptance and adoption of digital content in the classroom has been a slow, but, progressing evolution. Until all of the components of ...

Penn State World Campus launches program on California marine base - Tara García Mathewson, Education Dive

Penn State’s World Campus will add a residential element with a new undergraduate labor and employment relations program at the San Diego Ma...

Americans are Learning Online - YouGov

The national US student loan debt currently stands at around 1.2 trillion dollars and the cost of a college degree continues to rise. Online...

Report Identifies Barriers to Adopting Alternative Credentials - Rhea Kelly, Campus Technology

To help make alternative credentials a more viable option for adult learners, Eduventures recommends that institutions create a strategic fr...

Pixar teaches kids the math behind the movies through online course - Jonathan Bloom, KGO

Pixar created films like "Toy Story" and "Monsters Inc." but the latest production from the Emeryville-based animation s...

Adapting courses for the digital era: the professors' perspective - CAROLINE SIMON, the Daily Pennsylvanian

For the thousands of students from 195 countries who enroll in one of Penn’s online courses, the benefit of free, accessible education is ob...

Can MOOCs Become Part of Best Practices in Online Learning? - Yoram Neumann, University Business

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have captured the headlines in higher education in the past year. These new platforms were developed to ...