By Scott Jaschik. Jisc (a British nonprofit that helps universities on digital learning issues) has identified six challenges for digital learning environments and is inviting people to vote on which possible approaches to these challenges the group should explore. Read more...

By Scott Jaschik. This year's Inside Higher Ed survey of chief academic officers repeated a pattern of recent years: increased support for competency-based education, but greater levels of support in public than in private higher education. Read more...

By Scott Jaschik. Canvas, the Instructure learning management system, has announced an integration of Google into its product. Read more...

By Scott Jaschik. WMST-L is like many online discussion groups for scholars. It features many posts in which scholars try to help one another. What would be a good book to add to a syllabus on a given course? What do people know about the content of a forthcoming conference? Who might be interested in joining a panel at a scholarly meeting. Read more...

By Scott Jaschik. The American Anthropological Association and the American Psychological Association have issued statements of concern over President Trump's decision to revive work on the Dakota Access Pipeline, a project put on hold at the end of the Obama administration. Read more...

By Scott Jaschik. Non-tenure-track faculty members at private colleges are unionizing at an unprecedented rate, according to a new study published in The Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy. Read more...

By Scott Jaschik. Inside Higher Ed's 2017 Survey College and University Chief Academic Officers asked provosts whether they anticipated "major allocation" of funds to certain areas. Read more...

By Scott Jaschik. Provosts of American colleges and universities aren't sure their institutions will meet their goals for diversifying the faculty. Read more...

By Scott Jaschik. An analysis published in Nature shows the gender gap in peer reviewers in journals published by the American Geophysical Union. Read more...

By Scott Jaschik. A man wearing a swastika armband appeared at the University of Florida on Tuesday and Thursday, with his second visit setting off a sustained protest by students and faculty members who chanted their anger at him, The Gainesville Sun reported. Read more...