This explorative study captured the perceptions of faculty members new to technology enhanced learning and the longitudinal observations of the e-learning manager during dedicated professional development in order to compile a socially transformative emergent learning technology integration framework for open and distance learning at the School of Continuing Teacher Education at North-West University, South Africa. More...

The Washington Center for Equitable Growth released Wednesday the second in a series of maps examining the interplay between geography and student debt. By breaking down student loan delinquency rates by zip code, the map shows minority communities are disproportionately affected by delinquency, even after controlling for income, on both the national and city level. Read more...

Twitter featured many posts in the last two days about a report from Texas that seven armed U.S. marshals showed up at the Houston residence a man with outstanding student debt. Many worried that the millions of Americans with student debt now had to fear armed agents of the U.S. government. Read more...

By Michael Stratford. Draft plan provides a first look at the Education Department’s new debt relief process for federal student loans. Read more...

By Kelly Field. Student-loan borrowers who were defrauded by their colleges would have clearer paths to loan forgiveness — and the federal government would be more likely to recover its losses on the debt — under changes being proposed by the Education Department. More...