By Laura Devaney. The federal government should adopt policies that separate learning from credentialing to help individuals more effectively demonstrate educational mastery to prospective employers, asserts a tech policy think tank in a new analysis. More...

By Laura Devaney. University of Nevada, Las Vegas students will be able to explore the eSports phenomena in today’s popular culture through an innovative new fall course from the International Gaming Institute (IGI). More...

By Laura Devaney. International survey of 1,500 respondents also indicates that 75% of higher education students now use video in their assignments. More...

MIT Professional Education’s new four-course online professional certificate program, Architecture and Systems Engineering: Models and Methods to Manage Complex Systems will provide a state-of-the-practice view on model-based systems engineering for technical professionals and engineers. More...

Alumni Monitor by Corporate Insight, the competitive intelligence research provider that offers analytical alumni tracking tools for colleges and universities throughout the country, has launched a new online marketplace. Now, colleges and universities can take advantage of Alumni Monitor’s reports and briefs to gain a better understanding of the most impactful communications methods for improving engagement with alumni. More...

By Meris Stansbury. Safety expert says shared services economy, ease of travel present new safety challenges for colleges and universities. More...

By Ronald Bethke. According to a new report from the American Council on Education (ACE), there are unique new opportunities as well as challenges for increased innovative higher education collaboration between United States’ and European institutions. More...

Initiative to develop, implement sustainable, robust platform for supporting complex archival management of digitized and born-digital records. More...

By John Katzman. How to build the next generation of agile college programs, where each course can spawn online or classroom sections. More...

McGraw-Hill Education, a learning science company, announced the release of an upgraded version of ALEKS Placement, Preparation and Learning (PPL), an adaptive placement solution that has revolutionized how colleges assess and prepare incoming students in math and helps them lower failure rates and increase retention. More...