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The Sketchy Legal Ground for Online Revenue Sharing
The federal guidance that allows colleges to share tuition dollars with contractors that help them recruit students -- as long as they provide other services, too -- conflicts with the law and should be revoked, Robert Shireman argues.
Professors' Slow, Steady Acceptance of Online Learning: A Survey
“Embrace” is probably too strong. “Acquiescence” suggests too much passivity. Whatever word you choose, though, the data indicate that American...
IBM Looks Beyond the College Degree
The tech company is looking for different ways to fill “new-collar” jobs in its 360,000-employee workforce by adding digital badges and apprenticeships and deepening partnerships with community colleges.
Rules for Making Big Deals
Dozens of institutions have endorsed a set of guiding principles for negotiating contracts that support open-access practices with scholarly publishers.
Smart ALEKS
Arizona State has seen some early success implementing adaptive courseware in algebra classes.
Where Research Meets Profits
Recent allegations of copyright violations against a professor who shared his own work on his website spark debate about ownership and whether peer reviewers should be paid.
Digital Learning in ‘Inside Higher Ed’ This Week
Among the topics: four personas of adult learners; prioritizing data privacy; open access at MIT.
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The Evolution of a Scaled Degree Program
In the first of a three-part series, William Kuskin describes the changes required -- administratively as well as pedagogically -- as his university built an online degree from scratch to serve hundreds of students.