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Q&A: What Virtual Reality Can (and Could) Do
Jeremy Bailenson, a Stanford professor who's dedicated his career to developing and studying virtual reality, thinks the tool is slowly but surely asserting itself in the higher ed classroom.
Online Learning's Complex, Fractured Landscape
Survey of chief online officers shows enormous variation in how colleges define and structure digital education, in terms of pricing, program structure and use of instructional design.
Feds Come Around to OER -- Slowly
Congress has set aside $5 million for an open educational resources pilot program -- the most significant federal push for alternative textbooks. Advocates are encouraged.
Digital Learning in ‘Inside Higher Ed’ This Week
Setting standards for flipping the classroom; Strayer expands its campus footprints, hoping to help its online students, too; online strategies for small private colleges.
Opinion
Using Online Evaluations to Improve Instruction
When Steven Bell returned to the online classroom after a long hiatus, a training course persuaded him that student evaluations could actually be useful. He shares his tips for how professors can use the evaluations to make themselves better.
Opinion
Educational Improvement at the Meso Scale
Small-group collaborations like the Empirical Educator Project can help bridge the gap between local innovations and national ones, and between college leaders and companies, Matthew Rascoff and Bridgette Martin Hard write.
Are You Flipping the Wrong Way?
Finding many educators are using outdated flipped learning techniques, a new group proposes global training standards to keep them up to date.
Bucking the Trend
Strayer restarts its campus expansion amid growing enrollment, federal deregulation and increased demand for skilled workers.