Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. Despite what seems to be 24/7 coverage, Iowa’s first-in-the-nation precinct caucuses remain a mystery to many people — including Iowans, according to Steffen Schmidt, an Iowa State University political science professor who fields caucus questions from media outlets around the globe. More...

Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. Melissa Harter, the new digital literacy librarian, teared up as she told the story. The task of finding the obituary was easy for Harter, who is well-versed in the digital world, but for many people, even in 2015, the Internet is a mystery. More...

Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. Several experts and academics have expressed anger at finding their courses uploaded to the site and offered up for sale, without their permission. More...

Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. Enrollments by students Exclusively in Distance Education continued to rise in 2014. There were 2,824,334 fully online enrollments in 2014, compared to 2,659,203 in 2013, representing a 6% increase in just one year. More...

Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. Arizona State University’s massive open online course experiment in partnership with edX was supposed to give thousands of students free access to freshman-year courses they could take online and pay for only if they passed. More...

Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. Northwestern Kellogg professor Gad Allon has been quietly experimenting with ways to not only get students to sign up for these courses, but actually finish them. More...

Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. Through the online learning program called Treehouse, offered at no cost by the Louisville Free Public Library system, she began learning the basics of coding. “Just teaching myself,” she said. More...

Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. Everyone realizes when you get to the job market that networking and who you know matters, but the education system is sort of silent on that matter. More...

Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. The EQUIP experimental sites program may offer a more direct path for alternative programs to go mainstream. Schmidt sees dissonance with the traditional structures of the accreditation system, but he says the company is in talks with traditional colleges and universities about potential partnerships. More...

Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. Though virtual reality is still far from mainstream, 2015 was a big year for the industry as new headsets were introduced—some full-featured and powerful, some simple and portable—and companies announced new ways to control and capture VR imagery, too. More...