Filter & Sort
Sharing Courses Far and Wide
More institutions are signing up to share courses online. Some want to work together on concentrations and even majors -- but skeptics warn that too much collaboration can dilute the academic experience for students.
A Guide to Using Private Companies for Online Education
A South African university research center issued a report this week that assesses how different universities are working with outside...
‘The Promises and Limits of Online Higher Education’
Online learning is becoming an increasingly important feature of postsecondary education, but it threatens to widen rather than narrow educational...
Educating 'Working Learners' and 'Learning Workers'
A new paper explores the shifting landscape in which new forms of credentials (shorter, offered by many types of providers)...
Policy Briefs from Key Digital Learning Support Organizations
Discussions of federal rules around digital learning and educational innovation are ongoing at the U.S. Department of Education. Some of...
‘Students Are Using Mobile Even If You Aren’t’
Smartphones and tablets are changing how teachers teach and students learn. It's not always a smooth or simple transition.
Scenes From Innovations 2019
The conference on community college transformation features discussions of bringing about systemic change, the promise of open education and the right and wrong ways to get faculty buy-in.
Opinion
Today's Context Demands Use of OER
Replying to a recent blog post, Jonathan Poritz argues that lowering students' costs by using open educational resources isn't just a nicety in an era when many students are hungry and textbook "quality" is exaggerated.