State’s universities getting fast and furious internet for collaboration
Can high-tech scale high-touch?
WGU Labs begins experiments in embedding human connection into AI-first systems
Laying the foundation for campus accessibility
Stephen F. Austin State University in Texas is working to ensure its education programs and content are universally accessible to students and faculty, most recently through the implementation…
4 ways online courses can improve sustainability
According to a report released today by Arizona State University at the 2015 ASU+GSV Summit, providing online course options can create $545k in new socio-economic value, and saves…
Bringing clarity to crime-reporting requirements
Following a spate of well-publicized crimes on university campuses, schools are coming under increased pressure to improve their reporting under the Jeanne Clery Act. Passed in 1990 following…
A great example of why community colleges are 2015’s rock stars
Washington state community college students seeking an associate degree will soon be able to opt for a competency-based online business transfer degree that uses open educational resources (OER)…
Coding bootcamps find homes at accredited universities
Coming on the heels of President Obama's TechHire initiative to close the IT jobs gap (more than 500,000 tech jobs go unfilled in the U.S., says the White…
$7M to validate informal learning at ASU+GSV
Degreed, an education company focused on helping users track, measure and validate everything they learn, announced a $7 million Series A investment at Monday’s ASU+GSV Summit.
4 major MOOC findings–and where to go from here
A joint MIT and Harvard University research team has identified a number of findings about MOOC participants, enrollment, and certification, the details of which are published one of…
Student-led TEDx aims to bridge curricular gap
With growing pressure for students to focus on STEM, pioneering undergraduate students from one university recently decided to focus not just on science, but on a "coalescence" of…
How to apply game-based learning to course curriculum
