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Repositioning a Prominent Distance Education Center
After four decades as a freestanding entity with budget autonomy, a center for distance education programs and research will be absorbed by its university's social sciences and humanities department. Some faculty members are unhappy.
Digital Learning in 'Inside Higher Ed' This Week
Among the topics: a company works with universities on boot camps; an innovative university plans to close; new job for a Gates Foundation official.
Digital Learning in 'Inside Higher Ed' This Week
The following news relevant to readers of "Inside Digital Learning" appeared in Inside Higher Ed this week: After one university...
Pioneering College for Adults Struggles in Middle Age
Excelsior College, founded to help adults complete degrees online, staggers after curtailing its biggest program over quality concerns. Administrators say "repositioning" is working, but a more competitive market awaits.
Georgia Tech Envisions Research University Education of the Future
A Georgia Institute of Technology committee created three years ago to craft a vision for the education the institution should...
Opinion
Making ‘Academic Innovation’ Meaningful
Calls to create a discipline around the term risk reinforcing existing problems with how it is used -- and misused -- in higher education, Rolin Moe writes.
Trial and Error: Virtual Reality ‘as Memorable as the O.J. Simpson Case’
Police officers in the making at George Washington University can tap into a virtual crime scene as the foundation for learning across multiple courses.
How to Break Into Instructional Design
Tips, links, resources and words of wisdom for early-career instructional designers.