Although most online higher education courses today are presented as mere PowerPoint lectures, Microsoft has joined forces with edX in the hopes that their Office Mix service can…
The American Council on Education (ACE) has announced that 25 colleges and universities are joining an alternative credit consortium as part of what it says is an innovative…
When Cheap Trick first belted out "Are you lonely tonight," it's safe to say the band didn't have distance learning in mind. Yet the line accurately sums up…
According to a new report called The Four-Year Myth released by Complete College America, a large majority of full-time American college students do not graduate on time, leading…
2014 saw the shift from MOOCs as the major player in online learning to more specified, insular and nuanced online courses that aimed to personalize the online learning…
When students have negative interactions with a school’s online systems, it hurts the brand and the bottom line—problems that are all too common in higher education. Luckily, there’s…
Educational technology startups raised more than $500 million in funding in the first quarter of 2014 alone, but some investors are worried about a bubble.
Perusing Facebook, sending rapid-fire text messages, and tweeting back and forth with friends and celebrities alike might not be the best academic strategy, it turns out. A new…