By Doug Lederman. The U.S. Department of Education Thursday will announce plans to hit pause on two of the Obama administration's primary rules aimed at reining in for-profit colleges. More...
11 juillet 2017
11 juillet 2017
A new online bachelor's degree in ... anthropology?
By Doug Lederman. Newest online program at Western Illinois is a rarity. Effort was born of professors' scrappiness and desire to bring the critical-thinking discipline to students who can't come to the campus in the cornfields. More...
11 juillet 2017
Potentially bumpy regulatory road ahead for Purdue-Kaplan deal
By Doug Lederman. Purdue University's proposal last month to buy Kaplan University, the degree-granting arm of the for-profit education company that bears the Kaplan name, has the potential to reshape the online learning landscape and redefine the role of public universities. More...
11 juillet 2017
Civitas, Predictive Analytics Company, Draws Nonprofit Investors
By Doug Lederman. Civitas Learning, whose predictive-analytics platform several hundred colleges and universities are using to monitor student success, announced that two philanthropies, Lumina Foundation and Valhalla Charitable Foundation, had invested in the company. More...
11 juillet 2017
Colleges offer new online degree programs
By Doug Lederman. The following list is a new feature on Inside Digital Learning -- a list of new academic programs colleges and universities are creating online. More...
11 juillet 2017
Coping With Uncertainty: American Colleges and International Students
By Doug Lederman. The new booklet, "Coping With Uncertainty: American Colleges and International Students," is the latest print-on-demand compilation of articles from Inside Higher Ed. More...
11 juillet 2017
Go With Your Gut?
By Doug Lederman. Go with your gut. In today's Academic Minute, Ohio State University's Gleb Tsipursky determines if this is good advice when hiring your next employee. More...
11 juillet 2017
The New History of Detective Fiction
By Doug Lederman. Detective fiction has been around longer than Dickens and Poe. In today's Academic Minute, McDaniel College's Mary Bendel-Simso discusses the real origins of the genre and what we can learn from it. More...
11 juillet 2017
Experiments With a New Way of Paying for College
By Doug Lederman. Colleges (and nontraditional providers) experiment with income-share agreements as innovation that could help some people afford education and training. More...
11 juillet 2017
A New* System for Student Success Planning
By Carl Straumsheim. EAB, a research and technology services company, says the time is right for an enterprise-level “student success management system.” Other vendors wonder what took them so long. More...
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