Critics question federal aid for MOOCs, boot camps
Connected campuses: Modernizing education communications for safety and simplicity
Modernized communication isn't just convenient, but functions to bolster safety and responsiveness
Campuses go online for active shooter training
In the wake of the mass shooting at Umpqua Community College—and additional slayings on campuses in Texas and Arizona in the days after—university administrators are struggling to square…
3 ways technology is democratizing video for course learning
In the last generation, mass media has truly become “mass”. It used to be that information—whether in schools, in the media, or in the professional sphere—was disseminated top-down.…
Is there more to a MOOC than its completion rate?
Significant cost return-on-investment, massive social networking momentum, and thousands of downloads of one University’s MOOC have led experts to the conclusion that their MOOC initiative is a home-run…
3 characteristics of successful next-gen online learning
High failure rates. Low retention. Disengaged students. These problems exist at many universities, but more and more institutions and instructors, like us, are leveraging online learning to turn…
Why online credits need PSA help
Earning online credits, thanks to for-profit mishaps, has earned notoriety with students eager to chip away at a meaningful degree at their own pace. But according to one…
College reinvents “shop” class for the digital era
A new electronics repair center at the University of Illinois is setting out not only to fix broken devices, but also to teach their owners how to do…
Online courses + time on campus = a new path to an MIT master’s
