Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. While teaching online certainly changes how instructors communicate with their students, the instructor-student relationship is just as vital to the student learning and engagement in online classes as it is in an offline class. More...

Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. The range and variety of sensitive data in higher education make it difficult to secure. In the event of a breach, this six-phase incident response plan will help guide your institution through the crisis. More...

Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. Adults in the UK are turning to online learning platforms in order to stay competitive in their fields and to learn new skills, despite their increasingly busy schedules. More...

Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. Bellevue University in Nebraska takes a liberal arts approach to online education, focusing on small class sizes and high-touch faculty who provide oversight and guidance to students, and, in turn, improve retention. More...

Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. After launching in India last year, Udacity has made its way to China. More...

Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. The University of Colorado is asking its faculty and staff to get creative and develop new, fully online degree programs to launch in the fall of 2018. More...

Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. You can’t help but notice the surge of interest in anything to do with machine learning. Now Google has launched a series of videos presenting machine learning recipes. More...

Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. Employers and a large health insurer are considering a new way of reaching people with social anxiety and depression. Many who suffer from social anxiety, depression and other mental health problems won’t seek help from a therapist. More...

Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. When it comes to open educational resources (OER) adoption, is the glass half empty or half full? On the one hand, more than 1 billion works have been licensed using Creative Commons since the organization was founded 15 years ago, and in 2015 alone Creative Commons-licensed works were viewed online 136 billion times. More...

Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. “Open” has gone mainstream. The world now celebrates Open Education Week. The U.S. Department of Education announced an “Open Education” or #GoOpen initiative and ran its first “@GoOpen Exchange” to get schools and educators committed to the use of open educational resources (OER). More...