Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. Online courses are becoming extremely popular in college curricula these days. In a number of ways, online courses provide students more flexibility and convenience, and also allow professors to not have to spend hours per week on lecturing, allowing them to put more time toward personalized office hours or other research. More...

Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. Technology advancements have made online learning environments seamless, and our daily and nearly continuous exposure to online modes for communication in almost all areas of our lives seems to have made almost everyone comfortable working online. More...

Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. Udacity is partnering with IBM Watson, Didi Chuxing, and Amazon for a new “Nanodegree” program. Artificial intelligence, the machine learning technology that allows “smart” machines to take over human tasks like driving cars or ordering pizza, is quickly becoming the go-to technology for many industries to hire talent for, including health care, auto, and finance. More...

Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. A university without any teachers has opened in California this month. It’s called 42 – the name taken from the answer to the meaning of life, from the science fiction series The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. More...

Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. More than five-and-a-half million students representing nearly 200 countries are enrolled in Massive Open Online Courses, or MOOCs, offered by the Penn Online Learning Initiative. More...

Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. I recently received an e-mail from Coursera explaining the in-demand skills employers are looking for, and how Coursera could help me acquire them. More...

Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. Students are completing midterms and planning campus parties, executives are gearing up for end of year fundraising campaigns and praying that those parties do not result in crimes and general mischief, and IT staff are counting down the days until everyone leaves the campus and system upgrades can be made in peace. More...

Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. University of Colorado education professor Scott McLeod writes on his personal blog about the benefits of faculty members blogging as a way to build citations, grow a following in a research area, and potentially, to make the case for tenure. More...

Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. University of Colorado education professor Scott McLeod writes on his personal blog about the benefits of faculty members blogging as a way to build citations, grow a following in a research area, and potentially, to make the case for tenure. More...

Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. The Washington Post reports on the surge of artificial intelligence in a variety of industries and how the rise of robots could dramatically impact higher education in the near future. More...