8 MOOCs for Better Technology-Enhanced Teaching - Dian Schaffhauser, Campus Technology

These free courses will help update your skills with blended, OER, Universal Design and more. Let 2016 be the year you revamp your understan...

Video Chat Your Way Into College: How Tech Is Changing The Admissions Process - Anya Kamenetz, NPR

Two new companies, Kira Academic and YouVisit, market novel applications of technology to colleges that want to find the best overseas stude...

The major momentum behind micro-credentials - JENNIFER KABAKER, eSchool News

Over the past two years, Digital Promise has been building an ecosystem of micro-credentials to provide competency-based recognition for the...

Chicago State University Sends Layoff Notices To All Employees - CBS Chicago News

With state funding cut off due to the ongoing budget impasse, Chicago State University has announced all 900 employees, including the univer...

Is the Traditional College Education an Endangered Species? - Knowledge@Wharton

Would employers ever come to accept micro-credentials — individual certificates of digital accomplishment — in place of a bachelor’s or mast...

Coursera Adds Mentors, Project-Based Courses to Online Offerings - EdSurge

Coursera began offering mentors for 10 of its courses, Class Central reports. For $248, students can receive 1:1 feedback, email and forum s...

How to Make the Most of Online Learning - Demetra Katsifli, CMI

CMI chief executive Ann Francke said: “Many employers need to rethink how they go about helping their managers learn new skills. Just dumpin...

Thousands of Refugees to Receive College Credit Online through edX Partnership with Kiron - edX

As part of a joint effort to improve the lives of thousands of newly arrived Syrian and other refugees in Europe, edX today announced a part...

Columbia creates new administrative position for online education, expands online programming - JESSICA SPITZ, Columbia Spectator

Sandesh Tuladhar will work to centralize efforts to incorporate online education across the University as the new director of online educati...

Students compare online, on-campus classes - Sophia Oswald, WASHBURN REVIEW

Whether or not you prefer online courses or taking a class in person depends on who you are and how you learn. There are many advantages to ...

Higher ed 'revolution' hard to predict, but on the way - Tara García Mathewson, Education Dive

While it’s hard to say when higher education will be on the other side of a major shift and what, exactly, it will look like then, Richard D...

Explore the Pros, Cons of Gamification in Online Education - Jordan Friedman, US News

To keep students engaged, some faculty incorporate game-design elements into online classes. For gamification to be effective, students need...

Collecting the right data isn't enough — colleges must know how to use it - Tara García Mathewson, Education Dive

Data collection around student performance has exploded in recent years, and many schools have figured out how to use the data to improve re...

Proposed Overtime Rules May Have Big Impact on Higher Ed - Ellen Wexler, Inside Higher Ed

The Obama administration's proposed rules would extend overtime protections to millions -- including many postdocs and other employees i...

Teaching and Learning and IT Issues: Exploring the Intersections - Veronica Diaz and Malcolm Brown, EDUCAUSE Review

Optimizing Educational Technology, #2 on the EDUCAUSE Top 10 IT Issues list, closely aligns with several of the ELI Key Issues. Faculty deve...

Finding Our Voice: Instructional Designers in Higher Education - Sandra L. Miller and Gayle K. Stein, EDUCAUSE Review

A New Jersey workshop on instructional design gave attendees the opportunity to learn about instructional designers' roles at different ...

Study suggests acceptance of online education still lags among high school students - Carl Straumsheim, Inside Higher Ed

Most college-bound high school students are concerned about the quality of online education, but many say they are open to the idea of takin...

National Student Clearninghouse Research Center Reports on College Completion

Nationally, the college completion rate for students who started in four-year public institutions declined from 2008 to 2009 by 1.7 percenta...

MIT, Boeing, NASA, and edX to launch online architecture and systems engineering program - MIT Office of Digital Learning

MIT is collaborating with Boeing and NASA to develop a four-part online, certificate-based program: “Architecture and Systems Engineering: M...

Online learning makes Brown accessible to all - Editorial Board, Brown Daily Herald

Brown’s decision this year to open up eight for-credit, online summer courses comes as general interest in online education — including the ...

Penn State to open Intellectual Property Clinic - Shawn Annarelli, Centre Daily Times

Penn State Law is tentatively scheduled to open the Intellectual Property Clinic in the fall of 2016. Students in the clinic will work with ...

WCET Distance Education Enrollment Report 2016 - WCET

Based on data accumulated by the U.S. Department of Education's Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) surveys from the ...

Coursera launches project-based courses - eCampus News

Students can create a business model, infographic, Android app, or comic book in applied project-based courses. In a Feb. 11 blog post, Cou...

People who don't spend 5 hours a week online learning will make themselves obsolete, says AT&T CEO - Biz Carson, Business Insider

Faced with competition from not just from Verizon and Sprint, but also Google and Amazon, the telecommunications giant is working aggressive...

What should MOOC quality standards look like? - Meris Stansbury, eCampus News

Research delves into issues when trying to gauge instructional and design quality in MOOCs for credit. As more institutions consider offerin...

A religion course for the Internet age - Brett Milano, Harvard

Harvard Divinity School senior lecturer Diane Moore has modest goals for her upcoming online course, “World Religions Through Their Scriptur...

UF's online-only students find early success - Gabrielle Russon, Orlando Sentinel

Emily Long refuses to stay in her apartment all day, even though she won't physically go to class until she is halfway through her bache...

New Textbook Liberation Fund Will Help Faculty Ditch High-Priced Textbooks - Rhea Kelly, Campus Technology

A new Textbook Liberation Fund offers grants for "faculty members or departments who want to transition their courses away from high-pr...

Youngsters have changed, education system has not: Anant Agarwal, edX CEO - Noah DMello, CIO India

Technology has disrupted almost all sectors, but it has stayed away from education, said Anant Agarwal, CEO, edX on the third day of NASSCOM...

Montgomery County Community College offers scholarship for online course - Donna Rovins, Times-Herald

Jobs in manufacturing are becoming more technology based — requiring more advanced skills for employees as well as an understanding of manuf...

Udemy Thinks It’s Cracked the Future of Online Education - Alex Fitzpatrick, Time

On Feb. 12, Udemy announced that more than 10 million students have taken one of its courses. In the U.S., there were about 13 million stude...

Making Our Teaching Efficient: Flipping the Classroom - Linda C. Hodges, Tomorrow's Professor

Faculty typically spend a lot of time teaching—over 20 hours of a 50-hour workweek in one study (Bentley and Kyvik 2012). Are we spending th...

What I Learned Teaching a Course on Artificial Intelligence (and You Can, Too) - David Schatsky, Huffington Post

I recently finished teaching a free, eight-week online course on artificial intelligence and cognitive technologies. Over 7,000 students reg...

College-accrediting agency sends warning amid Illinois budget impasse - Associated Press

The state budget impasse could have "significant" consequences for the public colleges and universities in Illinois, according to ...

10 Ways to Fail When Creating an Online Program - Joshua Kim, Inside Higher Ed

The best part of my job is the opportunity to work with folks at the beginning of planning an online learning program. Whether these colleag...

Appearance and gender both matter in the classroom, new studies suggest - Eric Schulzke, Deseret News

Two new experiments seem to show that both college students and instructors carry biases when one rates the other. One study shows that bett...

Students, librarians urge professors to use open-source textbooks - Katherine Long, The Seattle Times

In Washington state, pending legislation could promote the use of online textbooks and open-source materials. A student advocacy group, alo...

Higher-ed leaders: 5 steps to a meaningful social media profile - Peter Sclafani, eCampus News

Some of the country’s most-followed CIOs on social media outline how others can get started, what to avoid. Being a higher-ed leader, like a...

Linguistics of foul language - Peter Rosen, KSL

You're not supposed to say them. We can't spell them out for you. But at the University of Utah, you can get credit for studying cur...

Princeton's COS 126 ratings improve after switching to online lectures - JESSICA LI, Daily Princetonion

After traditional, in-class lectures were replaced by ones held online, lecture ratings for COS 126: General Computer Science improved from ...

Will the Internet remove traditional higher ed's prestige factor? - Tara García Mathewson, Education Dive

Michael Kinsley writes for The Washington Post that the Internet may be higher education’s great disruptor, bringing down traditional instit...

Public universities in Ohio could face performance reviews by state auditor - Jim Siegel, Columbus Dispatch

A bill giving the state auditor the ability to peek under the curtain into the operations of Ohio’s public universities breezed through the ...

Apollo Education Group to go private in $1.1B sale - Tara García Mathewson, Education Dive

A group of investors has agreed to purchase Apollo Education Group, owner of the for-profit college chain University of Phoenix, in a $1.1 b...

2015 Online Report Card - Tracking Online Education in the United States - the Online Learning Consortium

Multi-year trend shows growth in online enrollments continues to outpace overall higher ed enrollments. Online Report Card – Tracking Online...

Microsoft Donates $1 Billion in Cloud Services to Nonprofits, Universities - the Center for Digital Education

In what seems a waterfall release of free services, Microsoft Philanthropies has revealed intentions to donate $1 billion in cloud tools to ...

The Struggle to Make Online Courses Accessible in Higher Ed - TANYA ROSCORLA, Center for Digital Education

Though the Americans with Disabilities Act has clear accessibility requirements, very rarely does anyone come knocking on college doors to f...

NMC Horizon Report Reveals Top Tech, Trends, Troubles in Higher Ed - TANYA ROSCORLA, Center for Digital Education

An annual report provides a snapshot of what could be in store for higher education leaders in the next five years. Sevices that detect and ...

Regents committee OKs new tenure policy - Associated Press

A University of Wisconsin System regents committee overwhelmingly approved policy changes Friday that would allow chancellors to lay off ten...

PwC tells universities to adapt or perish - by Tim Dodd, Financial Review

There are clear signs that digital disruption is transforming universities and leaving behind those that can't adapt fast enough. Not su...

New On-line Classes and Models - David, RealClimate

My free online class on Coursera.org entitled Global Warming I: The Science and Modeling of Climate Change has already served 45,000 people ...

You don’t need an Ivy League degree to make a lot of money in these fields - Jillian Berman, Market Watch

Graduates of top-tier schools who major in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) don’t earn much more than graduates of schools t...

King’s College head: ignoring online education is big danger - John Elmes, Times Higher Education

Ed Byrne, president and principal of King’s College London, believes that any university not exploring the world of distance education will ...

Penn State professor looks to incorporate virtual reality for online classes - Matthew Grillo, The Daily Collegian

Following Penn State’s continued advancements in online education, Conrad Tucker is hoping to blend virtual reality with online classes. Tuc...

5 Tips to Improve Writing in Online Classes - Bradley Fuster, US News

Online classes typically require more written communication and interaction than oral participation. Unlike face-to-face classes, which ofte...

UC-Berkeley deals with backlash from secret monitoring - Tara García Mathewson, Education Dive

The University of California System is taking heat from faculty at UC Berkeley after a faculty member on the campus IT committee sent an ema...

In Israel, War Is No Excuse for Not Doing Your Homework - Judy Maltz, Haartz

In a forecast published last week, the Israeli army addressed the probability of an all-out confrontation with Hamas or Hezbollah sometime s...

Pearson to leave the LMS market within 2-3 years - Tara García Mathewson, Education Dive

Pearson has announced it will phase out support for its learning management system Learning Studio in the coming years, following a similar ...

Gallup to give US News rankings more competition - Tara García Mathewson, Education Dive

Gallup announced Thursday it has developed a certification process for colleges based on their efforts to improve the “well-being” of studen...

Universities look to cybersecurity partnerships - Laura Devaney, eCampus News

Teaming up with industry cybersecurity providers, universities are hoping to produce more highly-skilled cybersecurity professionals. As the...

6 influential technologies on the higher ed horizon - Meris Stansbury, eCampus News

Annual Horizon Report details short-and long-term technologies, trends that will impact higher education in the next 5 years. The rise of ro...

Discouraging Cheating in Online Tests - Megan Hamilton, MATC

In online courses, where a student completes a test off-campus without instructor supervision, online tests must be considered as open-book ...

UI to departments: Get ready for more budget cuts - Julie Wurth, News Gazette

After absorbing budget cuts this year of $20 million or more, University of Illinois academic departments are drawing up plans for more cost...

Report: Wearable Devices To Top $28 Billion in Sales in 2016 - Joshua Bolkan, THE Journal

Wearable electronic device sales will increase 18.4 percent year over year to hit 274.6 million shipments in 2016, according to a new foreca...

Student Course Evaluations Are Biased Against Female Professors, Study Says - Marie Solis, identities.mic

After a semester of pop quizzes, all-nighters and 12-page research papers, college students have only one card to play against their profess...

Pricing Revolution: Texas Expands Its Affordable Bachelor's Degree Program - Tom Lindsay, Forbes

In his 2011 State of the State Address, then-Texas-Governor Rick Perry issued a bully-pulpit challenge to the Lone Star State’s public unive...

FACT SHEET: President Obama Announces Computer Science For All Initiative - the White House

President Obama is unveiling his plan to give all students across the country the chance to learn computer science (CS) in school. We’ve mad...

Low Income, High Graduation Rate - Paul Fain, Inside Higher Ed

Two new studies suggest many colleges may be too quick to write off low-income students and community college transfers. Money and extra sup...

There’s a lot we’re not learning when we try to learn online - Amy X. Wang, Quartz

Online learning, in 2016, is no longer the cautious experiment it once was. Universities all over the world are warming up to the idea of in...

Book Review: 'Your Online College Course Survival Guide' by Jacqueline Myers - the Examiner

In her eBook, Jacqueline Myers nails the top 10 success strategies for distance learning in a way that students can understand and implement...

Build More Collaboration into Your Online Class -Travis Grandy, Inside Higher Ed

As I build my course in preparation for this summer, one of the challenges I anticipate is how I can create similar kinds of active learning...

Rutgers Online - RU Online Conference Recap

The Rutgers Online Conference #RUOnline attracted some 300 attendees from the region to discover and discuss new approaches and trends in on...

Fresh Perspectives on Alternative Credentials - Richard Garrett, Eduventures

Sticker price may be soaring but net price, what students actually pay, is more modest and stable. The wage premium that comes with a degree...

Move Your Labs Online - Dian Schaffhauser, Campus Technology

As more classes go online, schools need a workable approach for giving students access to high-demand software. Virtual desktops provide the...

4 paths to gain buy-in for analytics projects - Georgia Mariani, eCampus News

Higher education analytics leaders speak out on building support. Have you ever had a great idea for an analytics project only to see it end...

Can students' online posts guide instructor intervention? - Laura Devaney, eCampusNews

A partnership between two universities seeks to predict where students will struggle academically to help better inform instructor strategie...

Big Data, Jobs, Mobile To Drive EdTech In 2016, Predict MOOC Company Chiefs - Seb Murray, Business Because

Business Because speaks to executives of edX, Coursera, Udacity, FutureLearn and ALISON to get their predictions for how online learning wil...

Alternate Reality Gaming Spices Up Professional Development - Dennis Pierce, Campus Technology

Alternate Reality Learning Experience (ARLE) is a new type of alternate reality game in which participants weave in and out of a fictional s...

New Blackboard CEO Bill Ballhaus Reflects on His First Weeks at the Helm - Dian Schaffhauser, eCampus News

Ballhaus likes what he sees at the company he now leads, especially the breadth of its offerings and its capabilities. Analytics is an excit...

Six Steps to Building High-Quality Open Digital Badges - Gina Howard, Evolllution

Though it can be difficult to build high-quality, evidence-rich badges, there are certain affordances that can help streamline the process. ...

Ted Cruz and Higher Ed - Michael Stratford, Inside Higher Ed

Senator Ted Cruz’s victory in the Iowa caucuses this week elevates the candidacy of the presidential contender who is perhaps most at odds w...

Best FREE online course provider revealed - CATHERINE KNOWLES, Educators

According to MoocLab ranking, EdX comes top of the list of overall MOOC platforms. Khan Academy is ranked as number one of the free and low-...

English majors' course connects skills to job market, could boost enrollment - Tara García Mathewson, Education Dive

A professor at Southwestern University in Texas has struck a chord with a new course for English majors that helps them connect their skills...

What a Million Syllabuses Can Teach Us - JOE KARAGANIS and DAVID McCLURE, NY Times

Over the past two years, we and our partners at the Open Syllabus Project (based at the American Assembly at Columbia) have collected more t...

Research: College Students More Distracted Than Ever - Dian Schaffhauser, Campus Technology

Students are more distracted than ever. They tend to check their digital devices, particularly, their smartphones, an average of 11.43 times...

The Online Classes That Help the Homebound Connect - Beth Baker, Next Avenue

Each week, the Virtual Senior Center offers some 30 online classes to homebound clients, from tai chi and exercise to contemporary history d...

Higher Ed Overhaul Unlikely in 2016 - Michael Stratford, Inside Higher Ed

Higher education groups, some congressional staffers, and other observers say they don't expect to see a comprehensive rewrite of the Hi...

College admissions now using social media like never before - Ron Bethke, eCampus News

A new survey reveals that college admissions officers’ use of resources like Facebook and Google to gather more information on applicants ha...

Top 10 Higher Education State Policy Issues for 2016 - Thomas L. Harnisch and Kati Lebioda, AASCU

As voters prepare to caucus and cast ballots for primary elections in the 2016 presidential race, higher education policy has emerged as a l...

Coursera Removes Free Track From Some MOOCs - Inside Higher Ed

Massive open online course platform Coursera is removing the option to complete some of the courses offered on its platform for free. Course...

Engaging on Purpose in Higher Education - Mark Milliron, EDUCAUSE Review

In the world of higher education, the needs are great, possibilities powerful, and partners diverse. Students are facing a future that incre...

Flipkart Hires Without Interviews Based on Nanodegree Projects and Udacity Profiles - Track.in

According to reports, Flipkart has started hiring fresh graduates based on the capabilities they have built through Udacity’s Nanodegree Pro...

College class blends Game of Thrones and Medieval history - Lexi Kallis, Winter is Coming

In recent years, we’ve seen more and more Game of Thrones-themed college courses pop up. They’ve focused on everything from religion to hist...