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Are new regulations lurking around the corner?

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The U.S. Department of Education's Negotiated Rulemaking Committee is nearing the end of its reworking of federal online education regulations, also known as state authorization. The language for…

Understanding the symbolism of digital badges

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Washington, DC -- Kyle Bowen, director of education technology at Pennsylvania State University, said he thinks credentials, be they traditional grades or digital badges, are little more than…

Why STEM needs a community to succeed

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Washington, DC -- When journalist Judy Woodruff was in college, she wanted to be a mathematician, but a professor discouraged her from pursuing math as a career. "He…

How a counterterrorism software company hopes to combat dropout rates

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For more than 20 years, data analytics company Intelligent Software Solutions has created software to help counter improvised explosive devices (IEDs), assist police officers in preventing crimes, and…

Udacity drops free certificates

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The massive open online course (MOOC) platform Udacity will no longer offer completion certificates for free, the company announced this week. While students can still take the courses…

How to improve course evaluations

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Student evaluations of courses and the faculty that teach them are an important aspect of quality control at colleges and universities. How a course is taught, whether it…

What universities need to know about the Heartbleed bug

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The Heartbleed bug, a serious security flaw found earlier this month in the encryption software used by most secure websites, has many organizations scrambling to fix the issue…

Online courses to go offline

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This summer 2U's for-credit online course platform Semester Online will offer two dozen new courses on subjects ranging from forensics to Shakespeare. They will also be the program's…

Universities to explore Internet with…cars

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Internet2 will provide electric vehicles to universities experimenting with the Internet of Things The nonprofit computer networking consortium Internet2 will provide electric vehicles to four colleges and universities…

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