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Predicting Success

Using big data to improve completion rates, and also to give realistic indicators of how both students and instructors are performing.
Opinion

Teach, Don't Mock

Sure, student emails show all kinds of flaws, writes Jared Berezin. That's why they create a great teaching opportunity.

Beyond Plagiarism

Professors always tell their students to make ethical choices in using outside sources. But what about those students who misrepresent texts unintentionally?

Front Line Instructors

Writing professors find themselves playing a critical and unexpected role in the education of veterans.

Hunting for a University

A California city makes a pitch for a new engineering campus at the American Council on Education's annual meeting.
Opinion

Professionalism and Formality

Will Miller says it's just fine when students call him by his first name.
Opinion

Too Much Informality

Katrina Gulliver is tired of students calling her by her first name -- and of professors who encourage the practice.

Online Ed Disconnect

A survey of freshmen finds that while most high school students use online education websites on their own time, very few see fully online courses in their higher education future.