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Big Disruption, Big Questions
Possible end game for competency-based education emerges with five new "direct assessment" programs, as foundations and experts discuss how to ensure academic quality.
Striking Out of Class
Nebraska's Midland University finds success with a "three strikes" attendance policy.
'More Than a Major'
Survey of executives suggests that companies are more concerned with graduates' broad skills than their field of study.
Seeking Rigor in Study Abroad
At annual gathering of study abroad administrators, speakers describe a need for programs guided by more clearly defined learning outcomes.
The Pulse: Handwriting and Voice Capture
This month's edition of The Pulse podcast examines various services that instructors can use to capture their handwriting or voice to embed into learning modules for the flipped classroom or massive open online courses.
Three's Company
Stanford University, birthplace of two MOOC companies, decides to work with a nonprofit started by MIT and Harvard.
'I Was Doing My Job'
Deandre Poole, the instructor whose Florida Atlantic U. class exercise involving the word "Jesus" led to death threats and demands that he be fired, offers his first interview on what happened that day, on his faith and on academic freedom.
Opinion
That Old Chalkboard Mojo
There are important elements of teaching for which PowerPoint is only of minimal help, writes Christopher Conway.