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Lessons Learned From a $75 Million Failed Experiment

Closure of Texas System's innovation arm shows that ed-tech start-ups need similar things -- including business models and faculty buy-in -- whether Silicon Valley or a university fund them.

Seeking Clearer Definitions in an Era of Confusion

As senators prepare to rewrite the Higher Education Act, leaders from seven institutions weigh in with proposed definitions for distance and correspondence education.

Confidence Crisis in Online Accessibility

Community colleges are increasingly unsure whether their online courses meet federal accessibility requirements, survey finds.
Opinion

The Promise -- and Limits -- of Ed Tech

As we consider the use of technological tools in learning, let’s focus less on the what and more on the why and how, Jonathan Kaplan writes.
Opinion

The Russians (and Other Online Outlaws) Are Coming

The idea of deliberately manipulating a crisis at a flagship U.S. university via social media once sounded like a crazy conspiracy theory, writes Ellen de Graffenreid, but we now realize the extent to which it can actually happen.

I Know How You Felt This Semester

New software aims to help instructors understand students better, but raises privacy and practicality concerns.

‘Here We Are Again’

Scholarly society for engineers and technologists is on blast once again for allegedly minimizing the work of female historians who write about bias against women in technology.