By Carl Straumsheim. At faculty development institutes, time away from teaching means time to rethink how to teach. By keeping the sessions small, many institutions hope to recruit a core group of faculty members enthusiastic about online education. Read more...

By Carl Straumsheim. The University of Oxford's technology transfer office is changing its name, partly for branding reasons, but also because "Isis Innovation" brings up unfortunate associations with the Islamic State, the terror organization controlling much of Iraq and Syria. Read more...

By Carl Straumsheim. As more companies expand tuition assistance benefits, Amazon says its model -- which focuses on "high-demand" fields -- is the one they should follow. Read more...

By Carl Straumsheim. The U.S. Department of State and massive open online course provider Coursera are partnering to launch Coursera for Refugees, a program to offer career training to displaced people around the world. Read more...

By Carl Straumsheim. New initiatives at university systems show the maturation of efforts to increase the use of open educational resources. Read more...

By Carl Straumsheim. Scientific researchers -- at least the ones reading the blogs runs by the open-access publisher PLOS -- turn to blogs for expert commentary and in-depth analyses of research papers, suggesting an opportunity for publishers to more frequently engage readers who turn to their peer-reviewed journals for scholarly articles. Read more...

By Carl Straumsheim. Major study of adaptive learning finds inconclusive results about its ability to improve outcomes and lower costs, but use at two-year colleges and in remedial courses shows potential. Read more...

By Ellen Wexler. A memorial, designed after the Sandy Hook shooting, honors teachers from pre-K through 12th grade. Soon, it will add names from higher education. Read more...

By Ellen Wexler. On college campuses, voter turnout is low. But voting behavior varies widely across disciplines and regions, a new study finds. Read more...

By Ellen Wexler. Six months after graduation, 82 percent of the class was doing something -- whether that means working (64 percent) or going back to school (18 percent), according to a new report from the National Association of Colleges and Employers. Read more...