By Carl Straumsheim. A yearlong evaluation of the National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education by the Council on Library and Information Resources has produced three alternative paths forward for the organization: relaunch, reconfigure or shut down. NITLE, which has helped liberal arts colleges use technology in the classroom, last year moved from its home at Southwestern University to CLIR in order to determine if the organization had a future in the face of dwindling funding and reduced activity. Read more...

By Carl Straumsheim. The Federal Trade Commission is "marking a line in the sand" with its first lawsuit against publishers that take advantage of scholars wishing to publish in open-access journals. Read more...

By Carl Straumsheim. Massive open online course platform Coursera on Wednesday announced the launch of a workforce development platform, Coursera for Business. The platform will offer many of the same courses found on Coursera's learner-facing platform, but "curated" to a company's training needs, according to the website. Read more...

By Carl Straumsheim. MIT experiments with instructor grading in massive open online courses as a way to expand teaching and learning opportunities for students and instructors. Read more...

By Carl Straumsheim. The organizers behind a conference on ethical use of student data this morning launched a web portal with papers and other resources exploring how data could be used in research about learning, applied to improve instruction and represented to reflect student accomplishments. Read more...