11 juillet 2017

By Carl Straumsheim. New Facebook features intended for developers could, if expanded, turn the social networking site into an online learning platform. More...

By Carl Straumsheim. The Canadian province of Ontario will invest about $740,000 (one million Canadian dollars) toward developing free online textbooks, the Ministry of Advanced Education and Skills Development said this week. More...

By Carl Straumsheim. Online education provider Coursera said Wednesday that it had raised another $64 million, bringing its total equity funding to more $210 million. More...

By Carl Straumsheim. White paper explores changing the accreditation system to encourage continuous improvement and open the door to “alternative” education providers. More...

By Carl Straumsheim. Textbook publishers announce new measures to curb counterfeiting of physical books, including certification seals on book covers. More...

By Carl Straumsheim. Handshake today said its career-services platform is now in use at more than 350 colleges and universities, a jump from the 160 institutions that the start-up touted earlier this year. More...

By Carl Straumsheim. Months after deleting controversial lists of “predatory” journals and publishers, the librarian behind them still faces anonymous harassment online. More...

By Carl Straumsheim. The Association of Public and Land-grant Universities is encouraging its 237 member institutions to equip its campus police departments with body-worn cameras -- or at least test the technology. More...

By Carl Straumsheim. The company, known mainly as a bookstore operator, scores a potentially lucrative deal with the digital education consortium Unizin that could help it make its mark in the predictive analytics market. More...

By Carl Straumsheim. A court in Bogotá, Colombia, on Wednesday cleared a biologist of criminal charges for posting an academic paper online. More...