12 avril 2017

By Carl Straumsheim. Despite the buzz, competency-based education remains a challenging market for software vendors. More...

By Carl Straumsheim. Internet speeds at colleges have nearly tripled since 2012 as IT departments have fought to keep up with students bringing new internet-connected devices to campus, streaming music and video, and gaming online, a new study found. More...

By Carl Straumsheim. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation on Thursday unveiled Gates Open Research, an open-access publishing platform designed exclusively for the foundation's grant recipients. More...

By Carl Straumsheim. Librarians are gearing up for a “marathon” effort to preserve federal funding for libraries, research, the arts and the humanities. More...

By Carl Straumsheim. Online education platform Coursera has set a goal of offering 15 to 20 degree programs by the end of 2019. The company took another step toward that goal Wednesday, announcing new degree offerings from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and France’s HEC Paris. More...

By Carl Straumsheim. The rapid growth of Handshake, a career-services platform, is also raising questions about whether some students' grades are made visible to employers without permission. More...

By Carl Straumsheim. The Association of American Universities, the Association of Research Libraries and the Association of American University Presses will later this spring launch a joint initiative to support open-access monograph publishing. More...

By Carl Straumsheim. Higher education and library associations called on the Federal Communications Commission Thursday to uphold Obama-era rules requiring broadband providers to treat all traffic on the internet equally. More...

By Carl Straumsheim. Millions of university email accounts are listed for sale on the "dark web," a study by the Digital Citizens Alliance found. More...

By Carl Straumsheim. Study finds library directors are moving forward with big reorganizations plans, but they also may be struggling to communicate those plans to administrators and faculty members. Read more...