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Freelance Professors

StraighterLine and Udemy offer the potential of self-employment to entrepreneurial professors. But will a free market for online teaching pay off for faculty?

The Pulse: Ensemble Video

This month's edition of The Pulse podcast features an interview with Scott Nadzan, director of marketing and sales for Ensemble...

From Boardroom to Classroom

In the age of the MOOC and recorded lectures, some colleges are turning back to videoconferencing as a tool for distance education.

Unlikely Pairing?

Wellesley's move to join edX and Wesleyan's entry into Coursera offer a chance to apply liberal arts college ideals to MOOCs, and potentially vice versa.

Questioning Clay Shirky

It's time to start challenging the popular critique of higher education -- and the way the views of many academics have been belittled or ignored, writes Aaron Bady.

More Cracks in the Credit Hour

The Carnegie Foundation, which created the credit hour, considers a redesign so the standard could better fit with emerging approaches to higher education.

The Customer Is Always Right

To measure and improve the quality of student services, Marymount University administrators enlisted students to act as mystery shoppers and critique its offices.

Assessing Campus Libraries

Survey says students are generally satisfied with campus libraries, although a significant minority view them as irrelevant to academic success.