Filter & Sort
Feds Come Around to OER -- Slowly
Congress has set aside $5 million for an open educational resources pilot program -- the most significant federal push for alternative textbooks. Advocates are encouraged.
Digital Learning in ‘Inside Higher Ed’ This Week
Setting standards for flipping the classroom; Strayer expands its campus footprints, hoping to help its online students, too; online strategies for small private colleges.
Opinion
Using Online Evaluations to Improve Instruction
When Steven Bell returned to the online classroom after a long hiatus, a training course persuaded him that student evaluations could actually be useful. He shares his tips for how professors can use the evaluations to make themselves better.
Opinion
Educational Improvement at the Meso Scale
Small-group collaborations like the Empirical Educator Project can help bridge the gap between local innovations and national ones, and between college leaders and companies, Matthew Rascoff and Bridgette Martin Hard write.
Are You Flipping the Wrong Way?
Finding many educators are using outdated flipped learning techniques, a new group proposes global training standards to keep them up to date.
Bucking the Trend
Strayer restarts its campus expansion amid growing enrollment, federal deregulation and increased demand for skilled workers.
The Week in Digital Learning News From 'Inside Higher Ed'
Udacity quietly ends its job guarantee, and dueling essays on the wisdom of California's new online community college.
Giving Scattered Students a Voice
Several online colleges have student governments to give remote learners representation, as well as a sense of community.