By Ronald Bethke. The Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA)’s International Quality Group has released a set of International Quality Principles to help strengthen growing international activity within higher education. More...

By Meris Stansbury. Several nonprofit and higher education organizations are collaborating to create new resources and opportunities in response to growing interest in competency-based education (CBE). More...

By Meris Stansbury. Offering a realistic glimpse of what it’s like to try and use mobile technology in undergraduate and graduate courses in higher education, one rural, liberal arts college says the only way to effectively implement an iPad program is if the technology has no usage hiccups and comes second to pedagogy. More...

The new search engine, called ionMatch, is designed by Iontuition, Inc, (iontuition.com) and will further what the company says is a focus on helping students consider tuition and other expenses when selecting a college. ionMatch tries to remove the guesswork from the college search process with this first step that will culminate in an ROI index. More...

Top Hat, a digital learning platform for higher education, today announced it is teaming up with OpenStax College, Rice University’s non-profit educational materials initiative. More...

The program, called “Master Access,” affords online master’s degree graduates the chance to access coursework in their specialization or that of two other programs for an annual fee that is less than the cost of a single graduate credit. More...

AXELOS, a portfolio and project management company, has launched a new global initiative to improve collaboration between academia, students and commercial organizations, enhancing knowledge and development of best practice across IT Service Management (ITSM), Project and Program Management (PPM) and Cyber Resilience. More...

Kira Academic releases a combination of new features to ensure all students are assessed in a fair and objective manner, eliminating admissions bias. More...

President Obama’s idea of free community college for students, announced during his State of the Union address in January, is getting legislative backing. More...

By Chris Elsworthy. I had always been good at building or “making” with my hands. Whether it was helping my dad with repairs around the house or building model airplanes, I found tremendous focus and inspiration with these types of projects. More...