By Peter Dizikes. Women who go to college intending to become engineers stay in the profession less often than men. Why is this? While multiple reasons have been offered in the past, a new study co-authored by an MIT sociologist develops a novel explanation: The negative group dynamics women tend to experience during team-based work projects makes the profession less appealing. More...

By Stephen Noonoo. Throughout the two days, more than 500 attendees from around the world — including China, Brazil, Germany, and the United States — listened to panel discussions on topics such as personalized learning and big data, improving STEM education, and the role of capital in ed-tech investment success. Other sessions focused on closing the skill gap, bridging tech inequality among students, and building out a successful company. More...

By Sarah Kuta. The University of Colorado this week officially launched “Connect,” an online platform that links prospective students to all online course and degree offerings across CU’s four campuses. More...

By Andrew Barbour. To help prepare Teachers College, Columbia University for the 21^st century, the IT department decided the best way to fix its existing wireless network was to throw it out. More...

Video management platform helps students and faculty weave video creation into teaching, learning. More...

For its fiscal year 2016, Cengage Learning reported that digital unit sales outpaced print textbook sales for the first time. For the 12 months ending March 31, 2016, Cengage Learning activated 3.5 million digital student experiences, up 12 percent from the prior year. More...

SoftChalk, LLC, provider of digital curriculum authoring solutions for K-12 and higher education, released a major new upgrade of its SoftChalk Cloud platform. More...

Gale, a part of Cengage Learning, has released Gale Researcher, a new research platform that demonstrates the company’s unique ability to create products that tie directly to classroom learning and drive greater collaboration between librarians and faculty. More...

At InfoComm 2016, Sony is highlighting its full line of display, AV and presentation technologies, including 4K and laser light source projection, pan-tilt-zoom (PTZ) cameras, AV over IP, 4K display panels, and live event production systems. More...

Join, a Unified Communications and Collaboration solution, streams and manages video calls, meetings and online classes. More...