Does website capability signal the future of higher-ed tech?
Archiving your academic journey: Preserving coursework and program artifacts
Coursework artifacts constitute a comprehensive portfolio of your intellectual and professional development
Performance-based funding could disrupt community colleges
Performance-based funding (PBF) has become progressively utilized in order to reward higher education institutions for their success in enhancing student advancement and completion, but may have some drawbacks.
School launches first-in-the-nation tuition matching program
Pace Law School recently unveiled a first-in-the-nation tuition matching program designed to make legal education more accessible to students across the country.The School also announced a tuition freeze…
New commission will explore higher-ed finance models
Increasing pressure on state budgets, along with changing student demographics and new academic models arising from advances in teaching and learning, create both opportunities and challenges for American…
Can technology reshape adult education?
A national survey of stakeholders from across the adult education ecosystem finds significant enthusiasm and desire for instructional technologies among those serving the nation’s underprepared adult learners. An…
Professor: Here’s what I learned from SXSWedu
This year’s SXSWedu—a Conference and Festival invites educators from different spaces—featured high profile opening and closing speakers such as Charles Best, founder of DonorsChoose.org, Goldie Hawn and Sal…
Rethinking the university portal
Colleges and universities are businesses, and like all successful companies, they need to present and maintain a positive brand image. Many universities have nurtured their “distinguished” brands for…
MIT to release new online homework review system
In computer-science classes, homework assignments consist of writing programs. It’s easy to create automated tests that determine whether a given program yields the right outputs to a series…
5 skills of successful online faculty
Not all faculty are created equal for online learning, argues a new report. In the midst of low retention rates and lingering perceptions of faculty around the quality…
4 critical areas in higher education that get the least support
