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...