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Will Trying New Teaching Techniques Tank My Evaluations?
Many professors fear that students will punish them for classroom experimentation. A new study suggests otherwise.
Digital Learning in 'Inside Higher Ed' This Week
Among the topics: mixed results with academic early-alert systems; Purdue Global kills faculty confidentiality clause; fight over eligibility for veterans' education benefits in California; classroom tech tools.
Trial and Error: It's All a Game
In-person games can be translated to the online format, one medical university found -- but that process takes time and ingenuity.
Universities and Museums: Partners in Online
Arizona State is the latest institution to team up with a museum to bolster its online portfolio. Representatives on both sides of such partnerships discuss the benefits and pitfalls.
Opinion
Blockchain Pixie Dust
Jonathan A. Poritz warns that colleges and universities should not rush too quickly to embrace the new technology for distributed public ledgers on the internet.
Early-Alert Systems Seen as Mixed Bag
Early-alert systems designed to catch struggling students are ubiquitous in higher ed, but not every institution is seeing desired results.
Open Access at the Movies
A new documentary film taking aim at for-profit publishers is about to be screened at universities around the world, but will it further the goals of the open-access movement?
VitalSource Buys Acrobatiq, Expands Its Reach
The etextbook distributor thinks it can create a major adaptive learning platform -- but will big publishers buy in by letting VitalSource turn their content into courseware?