By Lindsay McKenzie. The for-profit online education provider Udacity has announced plans to create a new Flying Car nanodegree at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference. More...

By Lindsay McKenzie. A survey by e-textbook provider VitalSource has found that 50 percent of students who delayed buying textbooks because of high prices saw their grades suffer as a result. More...

By Lindsay McKenzie. LiveText, a provider of assessment software solutions, is merging with Taskstream-Tk20, to create the world’s largest assessment software company for colleges and universities. More...

By Lindsay McKenzie. Publisher Elsevier has announced the launch of ScienceDirect Topics, an information platform that has been compared to Wikipedia. The tool, announced on 12 September, uses information from Elsevier books to generate “a quick snapshot of definitions, terms and excerpts on scientific topics.” More...

By Lindsay McKenzie. Salesforce, the world’s largest customer relationship management platform, has announced a new classroom-ready training scheme called Trailhead for Students. An expansion of Salesforce’s existing training platform Trailhead, Trailhead for Students makes it easy for educators to incorporate Salesforce training into an existing class, or deliver the training as a standalone class or bootcamp, with ready-made curricula. More...

By Lindsay McKenzie. Study finds that technology spending spurs gains in colleges’ outputs -- but they vary depending on the institution. More...

By Lindsay McKenzie. An Ithaka S+R survey of research libraries reveals a lack of racial and ethnic diversity in the profession, particularly at the upper levels. More...

By Lindsay McKenzie. The new "Forever" GI Bill includes a $75 million program to let military veterans use federal benefits for technology courses through noncollege providers -- another potential challenge to traditional higher ed. More...

By Lindsay McKenzie. Arkansas’s new public online university chooses national accreditor over its regional agency, raising questions about pace, prestige and the state of quality assurance. More...

By Lindsay McKenzie. The social media app announced on 8 September that it was partnering with four college newspapers to expand its news coverage to a younger audience. UC Berkeley’s The Daily Californian, Texas A&M’s The Battalion, Syracuse’s The Daily Orange, and UW Madison’s The Badger Herald will begin publishing weekly news highlights called Stories on the app. More...