By Lindsay McKenzie. The National Institutes of Health announced last week that it will close comments on articles in the PubMed database. More...
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Educause Steps In to Save New Media Consortium
By Lindsay McKenzie. The consortium, which recently declared bankruptcy, may have found a white knight to continue the work of its Horizon Project. More...
The 'Huh?' Button
By Lindsay McKenzie. A lecture-capture platform with a "confusion alert" button is changing the way some instructors teach. More...
Checking on Vendors
By Lindsay McKenzie. Universities are turning to secret shoppers, not to spy on competitors, but to keep tabs on third-party vendors that run key functions like admissions. More...
Valuing Learning, Wherever It Occurs
By Lindsay McKenzie. The American Council on Education has announced plans to evaluate skills learned in the workplace, putting a key higher ed organization in the middle of the alternative credentials landscape. More...
Confidence Crisis in Online Accessibility
By Lindsay McKenzie. The annual survey on the impact of online learning at community colleges, published earlier this month, shows what the report calls a “remarkable decline” in certainty among institutions that the online courses they offer are fully accessible to students with disabilities. More...
Jefferson Education Accelerator Changes Course
By Lindsay McKenzie. The Jefferson Education Accelerator is to rebrand as the Jefferson Education Exchange, EdSurge reports. More...
Educause Purchases New Media Consortium
By Lindsay McKenzie. Educause said Thursday that it is buying the assets of the New Media Consortium, a now defunct organization best known for its Horizon reports on the future of education technology. More...
PLOS Pushes Publication Before Peer Review
By Lindsay McKenzie. Research papers submitted to Public Library of Science (PLOS) journals will now be automatically uploaded to the preprint server bioRxiv. More...
Dental Students Take Selfie With Severed Heads
By Lindsay McKenzie. Graduate dental school students took a selfie with two severed heads during class, the Associated Press reported. More...
