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Trial and Error: Flipped Course Boosts Passing Rates to 80+ Percent
Students taking general chemistry at Hunter and Lehman Colleges were passing at 60 and 35 percent rates, respectively. A new course format that includes videos, podcasts and no textbooks quickly improved outcomes.
Online Exam Proctoring Catches Cheaters, Raises Concerns
Many administrators and faculty members say online exam proctoring works and is vital to expanding online programs. But some question, at what cost?
Scenes From Salt Lake
How Blackboard became Blackboard, a cameo by Secretary DeVos, and the vibe at the annual ASU + GSV educational technology conference.
Illinois Court: FOIA Applies to College Foundation
An Illinois appeals court ruled Tuesday the College of DuPage Foundation is subject to state open-records laws, The Chicago Tribune...
Heroes
Who is your hero? In today's Academic Minute, Fairleigh Dickinson University's Bruce Peabody explains what heroism teaches us about the...
A Plan to Kill High School Transcripts … and Transform College Admissions
More than 100 elite private high schools aim to replace traditional transcripts with competency-based, nonstandardized documents -- with no grades. They plan to expand to public high schools, with goal of completely changing how students are evaluated.
Don’t Use Our Brand
Louisiana State University tells athletes not to wear university gear if they talk publicly about the outcome of the Alton Sterling case.
Culturally Responsive Developmental Education
Other institutions can learn from historically black colleges by using culturally responsive teaching to improve developmental education success rates for minority students, new report finds.