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Digital Learning in ‘Inside Higher Ed’ This Week
Among the topics: Northeastern teams up with a for-profit on certificates; Goliath's Revenge and the incumbents' advantage; heralding Knewton's demise.
Trial and Error: Refining Online Courses With Constant Feedback
Struggling to figure out how best to serve students? One professor tried a radical approach: he asked them.
End of the Line for Much-Hyped Tech Company
After failing to live up to the expectations it (self-)generated, the adaptive learning company Knewton goes out not with a bang but with a whimper.
Colliding Values at Doane
University library exhibit included photos of students from the 1920s in blackface. Now the library director is suspended -- and some of her faculty colleagues say Doane made the wrong call.
Rival Publishers Join Forces
Cengage and McGraw-Hill Education will combine to create one giant education publisher focused on digital content. Observers aren’t convinced that’s a good thing for students.
Ed Department Approves More Direct Assessment at Brandman
Brandman University, in California, has secured approval from the U.S. Department of Education to offer two new direct-assessment programs: an...
New Database of Teaching and Learning Centers Nationwide
Centers for teaching and learning at institutions across the U.S. will be easier than ever to find and contact, thanks...
Ed Department Approves More Direct Assessment at Brandman
Brandman University, in California, has secured approval from the U.S. Department of Education to offer two new direct-assessment programs: an...