Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. Instructors at two universities on opposite sides of the country, both with extensive experience in flipped learning, are continuing to tweak the model, according to articles recently published in their respective student newspapers. More...

Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. Online students can enjoy enhanced classroom discussions and acquire digital communication skills. Some people believe that online education provides a sub-par learning experience. More...

Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. The university has created a new course evaluation form that faculty members can customize by identifying the learning goals of the course and adding questions of their own. More...

Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. People often express worry that the relative anonymity of online learning environments and the disconnected nature of being in a MOOC (massive online open course) leads to more opportunities for academic dishonesty and outright cheating. More...

Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. Hundreds of judges and other jurists (prosecutors, attorney, lawyers, etc) from Latin American and Caribbean countries have already signed up for a six-week Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) in Spanish on the “International Legal Framework on Freedom of Expression, Access to Information and the Safety of Journalists.” More...

Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. Efforts to provide support services to high-schoolers taking a summer economics and personal-finance course online appear to have paid dividends, with the 2015 effort seeing a 97-percent completion rate among Arlington participants. More...

Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. Many people have debated whether a college education is necessary to be a success. The education industry is changing and also reforming the beliefs that many once had about college. On average, millennials are taking six years to get their bachelor’s degree instead of four years. More...

Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. Lots of workers – 29 percent according to a recent survey by Spherion Staffing – are worried that they don’t have the skills to get ahead. There’s ample evidence, though, that many workers, including those who’ve already racked up college and post-graduate degrees, are taking courses to keep their skills marketable. More...

Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. Bob Murphy is the director of evaluation research at the Center for Technology in Learning at SRI International. He also wrote a book about online learning and the research on its effectiveness. More...

Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. One of the biggest advantages it provides is preparing our educators for Common Core instruction through professional development, training, and information sessions. More...