Filter & Sort
Feds Come Around to OER -- Slowly
Congress has set aside $5 million for an open educational resources pilot program -- the most significant federal push for alternative textbooks. Advocates are encouraged.
Online Learning's Complex, Fractured Landscape
Survey of chief online officers shows enormous variation in how colleges define and structure digital education, in terms of pricing, program structure and use of instructional design.
Q&A: What Virtual Reality Can (and Could) Do
Jeremy Bailenson, a Stanford professor who's dedicated his career to developing and studying virtual reality, thinks the tool is slowly but surely asserting itself in the higher ed classroom.
Are You Flipping the Wrong Way?
Finding many educators are using outdated flipped learning techniques, a new group proposes global training standards to keep them up to date.
Bucking the Trend
Strayer restarts its campus expansion amid growing enrollment, federal deregulation and increased demand for skilled workers.
Opinion
Fake News Forever!
When historians seek to understand historical matters, asks Gerald R. Beasley, where will they turn for information about the deleted accounts of fake news that may have influenced those events?
Opinion
Machine Learning, Big Data and the Future of Higher Ed
These new technologies have much to offer colleges and their students, but if we are not careful how we incorporate them, the risks may outweigh the gains, Vincent Del Casino Jr. writes.
Online Can Unite Students -- or Divide Them
As online courses grow more prevalent, instructors shift attention to ensuring students have positive experiences and learning outcomes.