By Katy Murphy. As learning becomes risky for some students, teachers are turning to online classes to help. More...
Research: Students value college, but not for the reasons you’d think
By Lisa Malat. With the cost of a college education uppermost in the minds of students and their parents, the actual value of college, and even how you might begin to measure it, increasingly has come under scrutiny. More...
When the only certainty is change
By Jeremy Cunningham. In this day and age, one must declare allegiance to one of a handful of corporations for their technology needs. We have all faced this choice in the last few years as our emails, calendars, phones, TVs, and homes have become more synchronized than ever. More...
5 seemingly ubiquitous technologies higher ed still unsure about
By Meris Stansbury. New innovations in higher-ed technology and practice are popping up daily in higher education's reinvention—but that doesn’t mean they have seals of approval. More...
6 best practices for successful change management
By Meris Stansbury. Experts say mitigating uncertainties and sense of loss, using data, two of the biggest keys to effective change management. More...
The Friday 4: Your weekly ed-tech rewind - September 2nd, 2016
By Laura Devaney. At a conference hosted by Harvard and MIT, schools using the open-source edX platform agreed on a common data structure for their online courses, with the goal of facilitating research on how students learn. More...
Does your faculty actually know what OER are?
By Laura Devaney. The study, Opening the Textbook: Educational Resources in U.S. Higher Education, attempts to discern the process faculty use to select educational materials used in their courses, and it focuses in part on OER awareness and use. More...
Marketplace trend update: 6 ed-tech developments - September 7th, 2016
By Laura Devaney. The thirteenth edition of the QS World University Rankings, compiled by global higher education analysts QS Quacquarelli Symonds, lists Massachusetts Institute of Technology as the world’s best university for a fifth consecutive year. Stanford University rises above Harvard and the University of Cambridge into second place. In doing so, it means that the United States holds all of the top-three places for the first time since the inaugural rankings of 2004. Stanford University also achieves its highest-ever position. More...
IT pros: Funding is still our biggest hurdle
By Laura Devaney. More than half (52 percent) of higher education IT professionals said funding or budget constraints are a top difficulty when it comes to managing IT operations, according to a new study. More...
5 tools to leverage augmented reality
By Laura Devaney. Augmented reality is becoming a highly relevant field of study as the technology expands. More...