Let me start with the less contentious parts. Of course students should help set the priorities of their universities. For instance, the complaints that students with black and minority ethnic backgrounds are being let down by traditional curricula and a lack of diversity among academic staff are too loud and persuasive to ignore. More...
The Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) has published a major new piece of research looking at future demand for higher education places in England over the next decade. More...
By Michael Feldstein. We now have a new set of six explainer videos that represent a short introductory course to the concepts behind adaptive learning and learning analytics, which are tools that are useful for personalized learning pedagogical approaches. More...
By Michael Feldstein. We had our summit at Stanford about 2 weeks ago with 50 participants from a pretty wide range of institutions and roles. (You can see the attendee list on the project web page.) We're still processing everything that we're learning from that gathering and the follow-up, but here are two big lessons that I'm taking away from it personally. More...
By Phil Hill. Two weeks into March, this has already been a busy month already for the transformation of for-profits and MOOCs. For-profit universities are in a race to become nonprofit by separating academic programs from behind-the-scenes services, and MOOCs are focused primarily on monetization and moving beyond free and open courses. More...
By Phil Hill. One problem, of course, is that many advocates end up presenting adaptive learning as a silver bullet, focusing on supposed magical tutoring capabilities and ignoring the messy but valuable work of enabling faculty to improve their own courses. As we will see, it is not a safe assumption that all vendors like this label or set of assumptions. More...
I had planned to spend 25,000 Egyptian pounds (worth about $2,700 before November 2016, now about $1,400), but after the flotation of the currency, I found that my expenses were going to double, so I decided not to continue. More...
Kenya—Thousands of refugee students here have been boycotting their classes to protest against the Kenyan government’s move to replace refugee teachers with state-registered native educators. More...
Recently, and for the third year in a row, Al-Qaoud ranked first in listings of the most-cited researchers in Jordan by Scopus and Google Scholar, two databases that track how often scholarly articles about a particular topic or by a particular author are cited in papers published by other researchers. More...
Development and child-protection advocates say the persistence of early marriage in the Middle East harms the educational prospects and emotional well-being of girls. But in some countries, conservative lawmakers are actively working to roll back legal restrictions on the practice. More...
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