Filter & Sort
Unwelcome Intervention?
Supporters of university libraries are worried by the Justice Department's unexpected interest in filing a brief in the battle over e-reserves.
Opinion
The End of the University?
Predictions of the collapse of higher education amid financial and technological tumult fail to account for our desire to be with, you know, actual people, writes Louis Betty.
Opinion
Accreditation in a Rapidly Changing World
Regional accreditors must respond to the rise of competency-based education or risk becoming less relevant, writes Paul LeBlanc.
Digital Pink Slips
Sliding enrollments at for-profit colleges mean less work for adjuncts who teach online. And these faculty cutbacks happen quietly, and sometimes without much warning.
Not Rushing Into MOOCs
Though many of its peers were among the first universities to create open courses, Yale is taking time to evaluate and strategize.
The New Intelligence
Knewton says its data-rich system can read students' minds. The company has landed Arizona State and Pearson as partners -- will the rest of higher education follow?
Opinion
Waiting Online
David Galef takes a peek inside the discussion forum for a massive open online course about a certain play by Samuel Beckett.
Mainstreaming MOOCs
Nonelite public universities are trying to tap into the MOOC excitement to direct students toward traditional credit pathways, generating revenues along the way.