Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology will next year launch the first of what could be several pilots to determine if pieces of what it has provided face-to-face can be delivered through massive open online courses. More...

Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. Like some people know they want to be a police officer or an astronaut, University of Idaho Senior Edwin Latrell has known he was going to serve in the military since before he can remember. More...

Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. In their 1995 Change magazine article, “From Teaching to Learning—a New Paradigm for Undergraduate Education,” Robert B. Barr and John Tagg described the Learning Paradigm, which emphasizes learning over teaching and student discovery and construction of knowledge over transfer of knowledge from instructor to student. More...

Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. Starting a business is no easy feat. Especially if you’re trying to pull it off while you hold onto your day job. More...

Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. The digital wave in the country has transformed the entire education ecosystem, making it more tech-oriented and student-friendly. More...

Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. According to ed-tech experts, responding as flexibly as possible to often unpredictable trends and new technologies is critical for maximizing their potential positive impact on learning. More...

Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. When refugees want to enter higher education, they often lack the paperwork. More...

Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. A company called Udacity, partnering with Google, shows us that we’ve been focused on the wrong disruption. More...

Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. There was no way we could simply replicate in the online course the presentations that happen in the face-to-face version of the course. More...

Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. With the addition of Princeton to its list of partners, edX, the non-profit MOOC provider that Harvard and MIT founded in 2012, now has more Ivy League partners than its largest for-profit competitor, Coursera. More...