By Carl Straumsheim. Ellucian is ending support for Brainstorm, its competency-based education platform, less than two years after it acquired the platform (then known as Helix Education). Read more...

By Carl Straumsheim. Faculty members, students and parents have launched over 130,000 fund-raising campaigns, collected donations from over 850,000 people and raised more than $60 million on the crowdfunding site GoFundMe since 2014. Read more...

By Carl Straumsheim. Study challenges the myth that digital instruction costs less -- both for students and for the colleges producing the courses. Read more...

By Carl Straumsheim. Textbooks aren't selling like they used to, but a new business model that has led to increased access to course materials and lower costs at some universities is beginning to take shape. Read more...

By Carl Straumsheim. Law students in North Carolina who bought Apple's latest MacBook Pro laptop need to disable its signature feature in order to take the state bar exam, the North Carolina Board of Law Examiners has decided. Read more...

By Carl Straumsheim. Study finds that giving students timely feedback about their performance in a class can benefit students with lower grades. Read more...

By Carl Straumsheim. Disability rights experts say an update to the Rehabilitation Act creates new expectations for accessibility standards in higher education. Read more...

By Carl Straumsheim. College administrators in the field of student success who feel as though their jobs are getting more hectic each day aren't imagining things, according to the EAB. Read more...

By Carl Straumsheim. Elsevier on Thursday said it has acquired Plum Analytics, a company that produces alternative metrics for tracking the impact of research, from the information services company EBSCO. Read more...

By Carl Straumsheim. The 90-year-old university press will close its doors this year after Duquesne decided to cut its funding. Read more...