Technology is a critical component in education delivery and growing moreso by the day, but the story of higher learning is not solely a technology story. It is a story about intellectual growth and delivering a consistent learning experience across the entire student population – agnostic of curricula, socioeconomic factors or hardware inventory. More...
As floodwaters rose around the city, Robert Pennington evacuated his third-floor room in the University of Houston’s Bayou Oaks dorm, grabbing food, water, his laptop, contact lenses and school supplies as he left. He recalled stepping away from the building, one of few at UH that saw flooding, into a knee-high current as he hoisted his duffel bag and backpack to a bus. More...
Rice University-based nonprofit OpenStax, which already provides free, high-quality, open textbooks to nearly 1.5 million college students per year, is partnering with Open University’s U.K. Open Textbook initiative to bring OpenStax’s textbooks to the United Kingdom. More...
Unconventional education organizations say recent high school grads flocking to nontraditional pathways; could this be good for college and university admissions. More...
The Energy Sciences Network, Internet2 and NYSERNet extend agreement to connect U.S. research community to major international network hub. More...
Branch Alliance for Educator Diversity will maximize educator preparation programs at high-impact Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs). More...
Data and analytics are being used around the country to improve enrollment and recruitment, to varying degrees of success. Having a better understanding of the factors that lead to a successful recruitment of a talented student requires analyzing the data of past students. More...
The Times Higher Education today published the 14th annual edition of its World University Rankings, a list of the top 1,000 universities from 77 countries. America’s grip on the world’s top universities has loosened further as the UK becomes home to the top two institutions for the first time in the 13-year history of the table. More...
Technology for a University of Michigan learning approach that employs video game-style strategy made its way to the market over the summer, and it has important implications for classroom technology use. More...
The Washington Monthly recently released its annual College Guide and Rankings, an increasingly influential alternative to U.S. News & World Report‘s much-criticized rankings. The Guide also features America’s 12 most innovative colleges for adult learners. More...
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