Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. The end of the report is stuffed with tantalizing promise about how future learners will engage with robots, artificial intelligence, virtual reality, and wearable tech (think data-collecting headbands and skill-tracking sensors) that could explode into classrooms in as little as four to five years. More...

Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. Silicon Valley is creating a crash course in self-driving car technology to address a shortage of engineers with help from a startup in a different field: online education. More...

Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. Americans are increasingly uncertain about the necessity of college for success in the workforce, according to our recent survey, funded by The Kresge Foundation. More...

Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. A University of California Irvine research project may be the first of its kind to measure the impact and feasibility of the use of robots to bring homebound students into the classroom when they can’t be there physically. More...

Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. A new study authored by Course Report reveals surprising data about the economic and social benefits of the emerging for-profit training model. More...

Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. It is by now close to certain that there are millions of people currently in high school and college who are fine-tuning their skills for steady-looking careers that will, following technological breakthroughs, dissipate by the time they retire. More...

Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. In higher education, it’s paramount that we be able to recognize patterns and trends early in the life of a cutting-edge project. More...

Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. Plenty of scholarly research has come out about massive open online courses since edX’s official introduction in 2012. What’s lesser covered is how the institutions running the MOOCs have used the data to improve learning in their regular courses. More...

Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. A recently-released report from Cengage Learning has examined open educational resources (OER) within higher education, including who makes use of the resources and why, as well as what the future holds for OER. More...

Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. Online education company Udacity on Tuesday introduced a new “nanodegree” program in self-driving auto engineering. President Sebastian Thrun made the announcement during an interview at TechCrunch Disrupt. More...