Tech & Innovation

The University of Illinois's iMBA program offers encouraging news about the viability of graduate degrees built on MOOCs.

New book explores what it means to be a scholar at a moment when every aspect of life in academe is being changed by technology.

Well-meaning administrators and faculty members have put processes into place that show little awareness of the hurdles students confront, says Bridget Burns.

U of Vermont's College of Medicine announces it will get rid of lecture courses and completely reshape the faculty role -- a first for a traditional medical school.

Data show that students who earn C's in foundational courses are much less likely to graduate. As a result, U of Arizona may require some C students to repeat a course.

Proponents of digital badges and alternative credentials have valuable goals, writes Colin Mathews, but are pushing a universal language of credentialing that is unnecessary and unfair.

Computer-generated gobbledygook can pass for the real thing with many faculty members, study finds.