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The Nuance of Note Taking
Banning laptops or other note-taking devices from the classroom is an extreme stance that isn’t right for every student, argues Karen Costa.
California Students Caught in the Middle
Years-long fight over federal rules governing state standards for online education could imperil standing of tens of thousands of students.
Digital Learning in ‘Inside Higher Ed’ This Week
Among the topics: new student social media platform, short-term Pell Grants, Google search, instructors' influence on community college students.
Technology 1, ‘Credential Society’ 0
Randall Collins’s recently reissued 1979 book arguing that education and training are about credentialing rather than skills rings false in the digital age, Ryan Craig argues.
Boston University to Price Online M.B.A. at $24,000
Boston University and edX will launch the MOOC platform's first master's in business administration degree in fall 2020 -- and...
New Online Academic Programs
Colleges begin new offerings in cybersecurity, faith and leadership formation, global health, industrial engineering, and mixed methods research.
Employers as Educators
Amazon moves deeper into offering postsecondary credentials, following Google and other big employers, but largely bypasses traditional colleges with the expanded training options.
Is Amazon Training Its Workers or Creating a College Alternative?
The retailer is pouring $700 million into worker training -- mostly through its own programs. We asked some experts on postsecondary education and training to assess whether Amazon's initiative is threat or boon to higher education.