By Jeremy Cunningham. In this day and age, one must declare allegiance to one of a handful of corporations for their technology needs.  We have all faced this choice in the last few years as our emails, calendars, phones, TVs, and homes have become more synchronized than ever. More...

By Meris Stansbury. New innovations in higher-ed technology and practice are popping up daily in higher education's reinvention—but that doesn’t mean they have seals of approval. More...

By Meris Stansbury. Experts say mitigating uncertainties and sense of loss, using data, two of the biggest keys to effective change management. More...

By Laura Devaney. At a conference hosted by Harvard and MIT, schools using the open-source edX platform agreed on a common data structure for their online courses, with the goal of facilitating research on how students learn. More...

By Laura Devaney. The study, Opening the Textbook: Educational Resources in U.S. Higher Education, attempts to discern the process faculty use to select educational materials used in their courses, and it focuses in part on OER awareness and use. More...

By Laura Devaney. The thirteenth edition of the QS World University Rankings, compiled by global higher education analysts QS Quacquarelli Symonds, lists Massachusetts Institute of Technology as the world’s best university for a fifth consecutive year. Stanford University rises above Harvard and the University of Cambridge into second place. In doing so, it means that the United States holds all of the top-three places for the first time since the inaugural rankings of 2004. Stanford University also achieves its highest-ever position. More...

By Laura Devaney. More than half (52 percent) of higher education IT professionals said funding or budget constraints are a top difficulty when it comes to managing IT operations, according to a new study. More...

By Laura Devaney. Augmented reality is becoming a highly relevant field of study as the technology expands. More...

By Laura Devaney. Open educational resources (OER) are not quite the driving force that some advocates might believe, due in large part to the effort required to locate and evaluate them, according to a study of more than 3,000 U.S. faculty. More...

Educate to Career, Inc. (ETC), a California-based nonprofit, announces the release of its 2017 ETC College Rankings Index. Educate To Career offers educational attainment data to academia and colleges throughout the U.S. More...