By Doug Lederman. Watermark, the assessment company that arose from the merger last year of Taskstream, TK20 and LiveText, has agreed to fold Digital Measures (and its faculty reporting tool Activity Insight) into its business. More...

By Doug Lederman. Raise your hand if you or one of your colleagues has expressed the view in the last year or two that "this generation of college and university students, and many of their professors, don’t understand freedom of speech"? (Yes, mine is up.) More...

By Doug Lederman. 2U is continuing its expansion, agreeing today to purchase CritiqueIt, whose platform enables real-time annotation of documents, images and other digital content by faculty members and students. More...

By Doug Lederman. The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges this month placed four colleges and universities on probation. More...

By Doug Lederman. The office has announced a competition called Reimagining the Higher Education Ecosystem, which encourages teams to submit "bold ideas for how our postsecondary education system could be reimagined to foster equity and encourage learner agency and resilience." Submissions are encouraged in three areas: curating lifelong learning pathways, creating a marketplace for student learning and leveraging emerging technology. More...

By Doug Lederman. Using newly available federal and state-by-state data, an analyst explores states' embrace of fully online learning and whether it drives adult students' access and success. More...

By Doug Lederman. Four of every five students who earned bachelor's degrees in the teeth of the Great Recession were employed and/or still enrolled in postsecondary education four years later, a new federal study shows. The study, from the Education Department's National Center for Education Statistics, examines how students who graduated college in 2007-08 and were tracked in the Baccalaureate and Beyond Longitudinal Study were faring in 2012. More...

By Doug Lederman. Hundreds of colleges -- including elite liberal arts colleges -- have stopped requiring the SAT or ACT. But Chicago's move is the first by one of the very top research universities in the country. And the move is striking coming from an institution, known for its academic rigor, that has had no difficulty attracting top applicants. More...