By Carl Straumsheim. High-enrollment courses often lead professors to assign multiple-choice quizzes, as more complicated forms of assessment dramatically increase the time they take to grade More...

By Carl Straumsheim. Coursera's chief executive officer, Rick Levin, is stepping down, the online education provider said Tuesday. Levin, a former president of Yale University, joined Coursera in 2014 and will shift to a senior adviser role, according to a spokesperson. More...

By Carl Straumsheim. Scholarly database JSTOR explores -- through a white paper and prototypes -- how to redesign the scholarly monograph for digital reading. More...

By Carl Straumsheim. New Facebook features intended for developers could, if expanded, turn the social networking site into an online learning platform. More...

By Carl Straumsheim. The Canadian province of Ontario will invest about $740,000 (one million Canadian dollars) toward developing free online textbooks, the Ministry of Advanced Education and Skills Development said this week. More...

By Carl Straumsheim. Online education provider Coursera said Wednesday that it had raised another $64 million, bringing its total equity funding to more $210 million. More...

By Carl Straumsheim. White paper explores changing the accreditation system to encourage continuous improvement and open the door to “alternative” education providers. More...

By Carl Straumsheim. Textbook publishers announce new measures to curb counterfeiting of physical books, including certification seals on book covers. More...

By Carl Straumsheim. Handshake today said its career-services platform is now in use at more than 350 colleges and universities, a jump from the 160 institutions that the start-up touted earlier this year. More...

By Carl Straumsheim. Months after deleting controversial lists of “predatory” journals and publishers, the librarian behind them still faces anonymous harassment online. More...