By Ron Bethke. As social media platforms continue to grow in popularity, it is becoming increasingly important for colleges and universities to maintain a respectably steady online presence, as this enables institutions to easily spread information and carve out a consistent presence in the public discourse, allowing for marketing campaigns and attracting new students in the process. More...

By Jonathan Haber. It’s not easy to select a college major, especially when the choices include subjects outside the core curriculum of primary and secondary schooling. More...

By Owen Phillips. If students are responsive to text-message reminders, then those messages could be tailored to exert the same kind of “run with the herd” effect. Every year, more than a million students don’t complete the FAFSA — the main federal student-loan application. More...

By Denny Carter. “Legacy,” in these exchanges, is shorthand for a technological solution that isn’t only outdated, but also inefficient, ineffective, and costly to maintain. Campus IT plans, in fact, often revolve around the best way to rid a school of legacy systems that were once the only option, but now stand in the way of ed-tech progress. More...

By Denny Carter. The survey, conducted by CampusBooks.com and released in July, showed that four in 10 students said they had been assigned an eBook for a college course, meaning non-print books have yet to crack the 50 percent threshold in higher education. More...

By Denny Carter. There are reams of data telling educators how students learn best online, what to avoid in designing a web-based course, and what needs to be done before students are consistently engaged. Perhaps none of that data is more detailed than the information analyzed in edX’s release of how 100,000 online students viewed course videos in its massive open online courses (MOOCs). More...