Can active learning techniques and flexible classroom seating improve student outcomes? Research at Ball State University has produced mixed results.
The summit underscores a tension in the Obama administration’s higher ed approach: how to promote colleges' and universities' successes while holding them more accountable.
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Higher education issues -- mostly tuition costs -- are showing up in governors races across the country.
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Can a for-profit industry beset by growing legal and financial woes fend off the Obama administration's second try at gainful employment rules?
Maryland fires off letters to large and small distance education providers alike in an attempt to find out who's teaching students in the state. Is this quality control or protectionism?
An accrediting agency just approved a free, online university with a largely volunteer faculty. Is accreditation really the squelcher of experimentation it is made out to be?
Higher ed associations start to take firmer stances against part of President Obama's proposal to rate colleges.
At annual meeting of the Association for the Study of Higher Education, much discussion – but no consensus – on how student learning outcomes might (or should) fit into a proposed federal ratings system.
Change everything about how higher ed is funded and public colleges can offer free tuition, a new book argues.
President, in direct remarks on the sector, notes concerns that some institutions "make out like a bandit," but calls for more scrutiny of colleges across the board.
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