Filter & Sort
Competent at What?
Lumina Foundation creates group of colleges working on competency-based degrees, with goals of defining what works and what, exactly, competency-based education should be.
Prestige vs. Major
For women, and especially disadvantaged women, what they study may be more important than where they study -- if they aspire to close the pay gap with men.
The Pulse: Brad Koch of Blackboard Learn
This month's edition of The Pulse podcast features an interview with Brad Koch, vice president for product development at Blackboard Learn.
Opinion
Confusing Signals
The debate over a popular "early warning" system -- while raising valid criticisms -- ignored the value of such systems and also the ways they need to evolve, writes Mark Milliron.
Online Education: More Than MOOCs
"Online Education: More Than MOOCs" is a collection of news articles and opinion essays -- in print-on-demand format -- about...
Opinion
Future-Focused Assessment
Measuring what students have learned and can do is hard enough, but we really should be trying to assess what our institutions have prepared them to learn later, writes Mark Salisbury.
Opinion
The Courage to Be Ignorant
Adam Kotsko considers the advantages of having professors teach in areas other than their expertise.
How to Say No to Students
McGill professor -- petitioned by students to extend a paper deadline -- makes them laugh while turning them down.