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Digital Learning in ‘Inside Higher Ed’ This Week
Among the topics: new student social media platform, short-term Pell Grants, Google search, instructors' influence on community college students.
Opinion
Technology 1, ‘Credential Society’ 0
Randall Collins’s recently reissued 1979 book arguing that education and training are about credentialing rather than skills rings false in the digital age, Ryan Craig argues.
Boston University to Price Online M.B.A. at $24,000
Boston University and edX will launch the MOOC platform's first master's in business administration degree in fall 2020 -- and...
Boston University to Price Online M.B.A. at $24,000
Boston University and edX will launch the MOOC platform's first master's in business administration degree in fall 2020 -- and...
New Online Academic Programs
Colleges begin new offerings in cybersecurity, faith and leadership formation, global health, industrial engineering, and mixed methods research.
New Gossip App Hits College Campuses
Pop wants to become the next big messaging app for students. But will it avoid the mistakes of Yik Yak and other failed campus-based apps before it?
Ellucian Banner Security Flaw Draws Federal Concern
Sensitive student data from over 60 colleges could be vulnerable as the result of a security flaw in Ellucian’s widely used enterprise resource planning software.
Employers as Educators
Amazon moves deeper into offering postsecondary credentials, following Google and other big employers, but largely bypasses traditional colleges with the expanded training options.