By Anjli Jain. Colleges and universities are businesses, and like all successful companies, they need to present and maintain a positive brand image. Many universities have nurtured their “distinguished” brands for decades, but a budding trend among lesser known institutions to promote a stronger brand image has now exploded, leading to a dramatic increase in the number of institutions that are willing to invest significant time and money in brand management. More...

By Ronald Bethke. Performance-based funding (PBF) has become progressively utilized in order to reward higher education institutions for their success in enhancing student advancement and completion, but may have some critical drawbacks. More...

By Larry Hardesty. In computer-science classes, homework assignments consist of writing programs. It’s easy to create automated tests that determine whether a given program yields the right outputs to a series of inputs. More...

By Jennifer Welch. Education-specific games are not the best way to incorporate games into curricula—a sentiment perhaps unexpected by an avid game-based learning professor. More...

By Koran Addo. A “teacherless” online learning model has some state leaders saying the approach is ideal for nontraditional students. More...

By Meris Stansbury. In the midst of low retention rates and lingering perceptions of faculty around the quality of online learning, it’s never been more important to identify what makes effective, and motivated, online faculty, says Dr. Lisa Marie Portugal, education professor at the University of Phoenix. More...