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Learning to Adapt
Newark's Essex County College tried adaptive learning software to improve remedial math success rates. It hasn't worked, as students and faculty have struggled with the "self-regulated" approach to learning.
Minecraft in the Classroom
University of Hull demonstrates pedagogical potential of world-building game.
Opinion
Teaching 'Fun Home'
Domenick Scudera has been using the novel for years in a course for all freshmen at Ursinus College. If critics would read the book, he writes, they would find a work ideal for new college students.
Multiple Personalities, Disorder
Researchers at Harvard U and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology find a uniquely MOOC way of cheating.
Not Just Research
Organization of leading universities is pushing for undergraduate STEM education to get more attention -- and initiative seems to be yielding results.
What Freshmen Know ... and Don't Know
Beloit releases its annual "mind-set list" to remind us that this year's batch of new students don't remember Princess Diana, Jacques Cousteau or a world without Google.
Defining College
Amid talk of higher education's possible disruption and unbundling, the Association of American Colleges & Universities stakes out an aggressive middle ground. Are people listening?
Establishment Goes Alternative
Seven major universities plan to create the University Learning Store, a joint web portal for microcredentials, featuring online content, assessments and tutoring.