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September 30, 2016
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25 great community colleges for low-income students
low-income students

As policymakers tout the importance of higher education in helping students secure jobs and succeed in the workforce, equity and affordable higher education is now almost constantly in the spotlight. Ensuring that low-income students have a chance to secure a solid educational foundation before they enter the workforce is critical…

Is it time to rethink the term nontraditional student?
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Should higher education rethink what makes a “traditional” student today? Data from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) on students applying for financial aid highlight the ever-increasing need for colleges and universities to diversify their programs and make more available online education.

Cengage acquires WebAssign
higher-ed mergers

Cengage, an education and technology company, announced the acquisition of WebAssign, a provider of digital learning solutions for higher education. ... Read more

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5 ways to practically incorporate virtual reality

Right now, there’s a lot of talk about virtual reality (VR) across many industries, including higher education. Everybody seems to agree that VR is going to have a major impact, but when you ask “When?” the general answer seems to be…soon!

edX universities say ‘NO’ to mediocre online learning

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.

5 ways to tell if your college programs will survive the future

Online undergraduate and graduate college programs are growing at 15 percent a year, but will soon be a thing of the past.


 

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