By Stefanie Botelho. McGraw-Hill Education, the learning science company, today at the ASU + GSV Summit 2015 launched Connect Master, a personalized, complete course digital solution for college students and instructors. Connect Master provides a highly adaptive, immersive environment where students can show their work and get real-time feedback at every step of the problem-solving process, allowing for a deeper understanding of concepts beyond a single right or wrong answer. More...

By Stefanie Botelho. Recently released data from the College and University Professional Association for Human Resources (CUPA-HR)’s 2014-15 Non-Exempt Staff in Higher Education Salary Survey show that the median base salaries for hourly workers in higher education increased by 2 percent in 2014. This number is on par with pay increases seen last year by administrators, professionals and faculty in higher ed. More...

By Lauren Williams. About half of U.S. higher ed faculty had taught in a flipped environment as of winter 2014, according to a survey from The Center for Digital Education, in association with Sonic Foundry. More...

By Stefanie Botelho. When the president of Sweet Briar College, a small women’s liberal arts college in Virginia, recently decided to close the 114 year-old institution, it sent a shockwave through higher education. Commentators have attributed this action to a variety of factors, including the “increasing irrelevance of the small liberal arts and ‘bible’ colleges.” Others have suggested that such schools are now in a “death spiral,” the proverbial “canary in the coal mine,” or, the “first domino to fall.” More...