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A Little Discomfort
When administrators worry about anything that could distress students, faculty members are at risk, writes Gaye Tuchman. Two recent controversies illustrate the problem.
Badging From Within
A digital badging project at UC Davis is drawing notice, but the innovation looks more like competency-based education than a form of alternative credentials.
Gen Ed Worries
At gathering of historians, professors like the idea of talking about their discipline's role in the curriculum, but fear too much regulation.
Not-So-Final Exam
What if a professor gives a test and accidentally gives out the answers -- but only to some students?
Scaling Back in San Jose
University will offer a new round of the courses it created with Udacity -- but this time as regular college classes.
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Change Is Coming
Current business models and out-of-date curricular and teaching models need to be reformed for higher education to fulfill its crucial roles, writes Dan Greenstein.
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Disrupting the Disruptors
A key principle -- that education is a public good -- needs to be central to discussions about how to change higher education, writes James Grossman.
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Year of the Backlash
Might massive online courses from elite institutions -- which have been credited with legitimizing online education -- actually be undermining the public view of other forms of digital learning, Peter Stokes and Sean Gallagher ask?