By . The U.S. Department of Education has once more pushed back the deadline for compliance with a requirement that colleges be properly authorized by state governments, according to a notice to be published in Tuesday’s Federal Register. In 2010 the department issued rules containing a provision requiring colleges to seek approval from each state where they enroll students online. More...
By Chronicle Staff. Report: “Federal Student-Loan Servicing: Contract Problems and Public Solutions”
Authors: Eric M. Fink, an associate professor at Elon University’s School of Law, and Roland Zullo, an associate research scientist at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor’s Institute for Research on Labor, Employment, and the Economy
Summary: Students are not well served by the student-loan-servicing industry, the researchers argue, as there is an inherent conflict between the profit motive and responsive, quality service. Given the large number of complaints against loan servicers by students, Mr. Fink and Mr. Zullo argue that the current loan-servicing model should be reimagined. More...
By Eric Hoover. College-entrance examinations give students a score—bravo, kid, you got a 1400!—and not much else. But a new wave of low-stakes assessments offers them guidance.
“Actionable information,” says Ross E. Markle, one of several representatives of the Educational Testing Service who visited The Chronicle on Thursday. More...
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By Steve Kolowich. In December 2013 a group of academics gathered during a Texas snowstorm and began the second phase of a discussion about massive open online courses. They were not terribly impressed by the hype the courses had received in the popular media, and they had set out to create a better body of literature about MOOCs—albeit a less sensational one. The MOOC Research Initiative, backed by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, had given many of those academics research grants to study what was going on in the online courses. More...
By Jennifer Howard. Nothing gladdens a publisher’s heart more than hearing readers say they still like to buy books—and printed books at that. At the Association of American University Presses’ annual meeting, which wrapped up here this week, a panel of scholars talked about how much of their work was still print-based even as chatter at the conference focused on e-books, metadata, and new ideas about how to make it easier to publish monographs digitally. More...
By Jennifer Howard. At almost any gathering of academic publishers or librarians, you’ll hear someone float the idea—sometimes phrased as a question—that the model for publishing scholarly monographs is broken. Two sets of ideas aired at the Association of American University Presses’ annual meeting, held here this week, don’t say the model is damaged beyond repair. But the proposals, both from groups outside the university-press community, suggest that it needs to be retrofitted, at the least. More...
By Avi Wolfman-Arent. Carnegie Mellon University’s receiving a grant to study MOOCs is no surprise. But the source’s identity is bound to raise eyebrows. Google announced on Tuesday that it would give Carnegie Mellon $300,000 in each of the next two years through the Google Focused Research Award program. Google can fund the research for a third year at the same price if it chooses. More...
By Avi Wolfman-Arent. Donald J. Boudreaux’s five-minute video lecture on the evolution of human prosperity—complete with slick animation, studio lighting, and killer graphics—looks seamless. Making it, he says, was anything but. More...
By Jonah Newman. We’ve been following the continuing conversation among journalists, programmers, and educators about computer-science education in the United States and whether everyone should—or should not—learn how to code. It’s a question that comes up often in digital-media circles, so we were pleased to read a thoughtful, nuanced contribution to that conversation last week from Tasneem Raja, the interactive editor at Mother Jones. More...
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