By Andrew Barbour. As higher education pivots away from the liberal arts in favor of more career-focused degrees, a new online learning platform is hoping to fill the vacuum by offering low-cost arts courses online—for credit or otherwise. More...

By Carly Morales. Institutions need to create layered, blended and personalized places that support a variety of interactions and digital platforms, rather than creating specialized spaces, such as computer labs. More...

By Mike Sweet. In today’s fast-paced economy, employers need new hires who can fail fast, solve problems quickly, and learn continuously. At the core of these abilities are critical thinking and information literacy skills. More...

The UC Irvine School of Humanities has received a $2.7 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to fund a pilot program that aims to transform graduate education by streamlining the time to degree, providing full funding throughout the degree program, and establishing a teaching and research position of up to two years for all candidates who complete their dissertation in five years. More...

Many higher-ed institutions are turning to online models to more cheaply deliver certain kinds of courses and assess student learning. Is this, in fact, a good or sustainable strategy? What role does technology have to reduce the costs of delivering post-secondary education. More...

Instructure, a software-as-a-service (SaaS) company and creator of the Canvas learning management system (LMS), has released Canvas Data, a hosted data solution providing fully optimized data to K-12 and higher education institutions capturing online teaching and learning activity. More...

According to a recent Cengage Learning survey of more than 4,250 community college students, almost 100 percent say community colleges are an integral part of the U.S. education system. More...

By Lester A. Lefton. Is note sharing is an infringement on professors’ intellectual property rights? And can this way of thinking be justified in the age of collaborative, peer-to-peer learning. More...

By Laura Devaney. A new report identifies three strategies that could prove useful when it comes to helping higher-ed institutions produce students who have the skills and knowledge to succeed in today’s competitive workforce. More...

By Laura Devaney. A recent survey of 28,000 students yielded three specific factors that could influence online academic performance, with many stakeholders saying online student success really depends on effective learning design. More...