By Doug Lederman. Civitas Learning, whose predictive analytics platform aims to help colleges monitor and improve their students' success, has agreed to purchase the mobile engagement platform ClearScholar, the companies announced. More...
American University Law Selects 2U for Online Legal Studies Degree
By Doug Lederman. American University's Washington College of Law will work with 2U to offer a new online master's degree in legal studies, they announced Wednesday. More...
University of Chicago Drops SAT/ACT Requirements
By Doug Lederman. The University of Chicago announced Thursday morning that it was dropping the requirement that all undergraduate applicants submit SAT or ACT scores. More...
Key Issues on Student Debt
By Doug Lederman. “Key Issues on Student Debt” is Inside Higher Ed's newest curated collection of articles. You may download a copy free, here. More...
Indian Regulator Approves Fully Online Degrees
By Doug Lederman. The Indian government has for the first time given approval to highly ranked universities in the country to offer fully online academic programs starting in the coming academic year, Times Higher Education reported. More...
Forbes enters the online learning business (with Bridgepoint)
By Doug Lederman. Forbes Media announced last week that it would begin offering dozens of self-paced online courses for aspiring professionals, through the platform created by Bridgepoint Education's decision last spring to spin off its two universities into nonprofit institutions. More...
Untapped Data: Enhancing Teaching and Learning, an 'Inside Higher Ed' Event
By Doug Lederman. "Untapped Data: Enhancing Teaching and Learning" is the third event in Inside Higher Ed's 2018 Leadership Series. It will be held Wednesday, July 25, at Gallup's headquarters in Washington, D.C. More...
Debt-Relief Scam to Pay $2.3 Million in FTC Settlement
By Doug Lederman. The operators of a debt-relief scam have agreed to pay $2.3 million to settle Federal Trade Commission claims that they bilked student loan borrowers out of millions of dollars by pretending to be affiliated with the U.S. Education Department. More...
Price Matters but Doesn't Rule
By Doug Lederman. A program's price is a major factor -- but not the deciding one -- as online students decide where to enroll, survey finds. Report also explores program mix, demographics, use of mobile. More...
Boeing to spend $100 million on online courses and other worker training
By Doug Lederman. Boeing has announced that it plans to spend $100 million on a series of worker-training initiatives, several of which involve access to online courses and a focus on developing employees' "digital literacy." More...