By Lindsay McKenzie. Students expect wireless internet access everywhere on campus, and colleges and universities pay millions to provide it. More...
A Federal Experiment Flounders
By Lindsay McKenzie. An Obama-era program to give nontraditional providers access to federal financial aid has struggled to get off the ground, and three of eight participants have pulled out. More...
Dept. of Ed. Approves First EQUIP Program
By Lindsay McKenzie. The U.S. Department of Education has approved the first program under its Educational Quality Through Innovative Partnerships (EQUIP) initiative. More...
Top Hat Makes Access to OER Free
By Lindsay McKenzie. Top Hat, a company that provides cloud-based teaching tools, has made access to open educational resources free on its platform. More...
The Next Southern New Hampshire?
By Lindsay McKenzie. Maryville University has bold plans for expansion online, with Pearson's help, but experts warn that the small private university could struggle to stand out. More...
Publishers Win Big in Fake-Textbook Lawsuit
By Lindsay McKenzie. Publishers Wiley, Cengage, Pearson and McGraw-Hill Education have won a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against a seller of fake textbooks. More...
Virginia Governor Opts for OER
By Lindsay McKenzie. The governor of Virginia has approved a bill requiring all public higher education institutions in the state to take steps to adopt open educational resources -- freely accessible and openly copyrighted educational materials. More...
Blocking Child Porn on Campus
By Lindsay McKenzie. In the last two years, three employees and two students in the North Dakota University System have been arrested for possession of child pornography -- some of which was downloaded through university networks and onto university-owned computers. More...
The Ethical Social Network
By Lindsay McKenzie. With Facebook under fire for inadequate privacy protections, how has one of the oldest academic social networks avoided the same fate. More...
Who’s Reading Your Email?
By Lindsay McKenzie. University of Rochester professors found out their emails were reviewed and shared, raising questions of how much privacy faculty members should be assured. More...