By Lindsay McKenzie. In its quest to find a sustainable business model, online course provider edX will test charging users for access to previously free content. Observers say the move was inevitable. More...
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Free MOOCs Face the Music
Chain Adds Employee Education Benefits
By Lindsay McKenzie. First Watch employees can now complete their high school education for free through Cengage’s Career Online High School, which also works with employers such as Walmart, McDonald’s and Hilton. More...
MIT Trials First U.S. ‘Read and Publish’ Agreement
By Lindsay McKenzie. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology Libraries system has signed a publishing agreement with the Royal Society of Chemistry, thought to be the first of its kind in North America. More...
A College President’s Twitter Strategy
By Lindsay McKenzie. A student newspaper at the University of British Columbia has criticized President Santa Ono for mixing policy statements with personal views on social media. The president has been uncharacteristically quiet in response. More...
Open-Access Best Sellers
By Lindsay McKenzie. Last week University College London Press, Britain’s first fully open-access university press, celebrated a milestone -- one million downloads of its free academic books. More...
Walmart to Offer Debt-Free Degrees to Employees
By Lindsay McKenzie. In partnership with education platform Guild Education, Walmart will offer its 1.4 million employees access to subsidized associate’s and bachelor’s degrees. Employees will also be able to convert completed job training into college credit. More...
Gender Gap Without Gender Bias?
By Colleen Flaherty. Study says editors of major political science journals demonstrate no systematic bias against female authors. Yet women authors remain underrepresented in the field. More...
UMass Dartmouth Wants to Boot Chairs From Union
By Colleen Flaherty. The University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth’s American Federation of Teachers-affiliated faculty union is fighting an administrative attempt to remove department chairs from the bargaining unit. More...
Harassment Unchecked
By Colleen Flaherty. National Academies report says sexual harassment is costly to science and that compliance-based approaches to curbing it don't work. Promoting civility and otherwise managing research and learning climates is more effective, it says. More...
Study: Fairness in the Classroom Reduces 'Evaluation Retaliation'
By Colleen Flaherty. Some research suggests that student evaluations of teaching are influenced by students’ expected grades. And some professors report feeling pressure to make their courses easier as a result. A new study says that professors don’t have to worry about grades negatively impacting their student ratings as long as they use classroom practices students perceive to be fair. More...
