10 must-haves to appease online students
Answering the question behind the question
A routine student question can become an opportunity for better communication, stronger course design, and deeper learning
Faculty: A 5-part framework for open courses
Open courseware experts have published and revised the 5R Open Course Design Framework, a set of guidelines and best practices for developing courses using open educational resources (OER).
4 paths to gain buy-in for analytics projects
Have you ever had a great idea for an analytics project only to see it end up in approval purgatory? Or maybe you've had some initial successes with…
Seeking competitive advantage? Look to “clusters”
An increasingly discussed topic in academics is the concept of “cluster” networks. According to experts, these clusters – the co-location and interconnection of related industries and schools –…
Harvard to raise the bar for online learning tech
As higher education pivots toward nontraditional learners, schools are facing demands to improve the production quality of the lectures they make available online. While commercial lecture-capture solutions have…
College admissions now using social media like never before
A new survey reveals that college admissions officers' use of resources like Facebook and Google to gather more information on applicants has reached an all-time high.
Is poor facilities management costing higher ed billions?
Higher education could save roughly $14.7B by tightening the use of their facilities and better manage course scheduling. That’s just one major finding of a recent report that…
4 ways to take campus video to the next level
Only a few years ago, if campus video was used for more than the occasional film clip in class, it was cutting-edge. In today’s world of flipped classrooms,…
At this college, IT staff are former students
