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Take My Advice
Seventeen instructors offer guidance for colleagues teaching an online course for the first time (and for those seeking a few new ideas).
How Many Online Courses Should Athletes Be Allowed to Take?
Iowa imposed limit on distance education by its athletes, only to back away. Does online ed help athletes learn, or just make it easier for them to miss classes?
Boosting Faculty Buy-In for Online Learning -- and Why It's Not Easy
Digital learning leaders diagnose the challenges of seeking faculty support -- and possible solutions to obtaining it.
Senior College Students
To keep college classes full, look to your elders. In today's Academic Minute, Wayne State University's Jennifer Sheridan Moss explores...
Do Professors Need Automated Help Grading Online Comments?
Blackboard is getting ready to add a tool to its learning management system that would provide grading guidance based on algorithms, but some faculty members question need.
Cheating Without Intent?
Ohio State isn’t the first college where students are accused of cheating via GroupMe. But could the messaging application trap innocent students because of others’ misdeeds?
Tips on Handling Firebrands
Administrators offer advice on dealing with controversial speakers -- white nationalist Richard Spencer, conservative rabble-rousers like Milo Yiannopoulos and others.
Partnering for Transfer
Getting 37 institutions to agree on new student transfer pathways isn’t easy, but the Minnesota State system seems to have accomplished it.