What does collaboration really look like?
How USF is breaking down information silos and igniting student success
The student success movement at USF is built on the simple, fundamental belief that every student will succeed
Back to campus: Top technology trends for the year ahead
It’s back to school time, and IT teams at college campuses nationwide are preparing to handle the onslaught of technology needs of faculty and students alike—but what should…
Biggest cloud challenge? Hint: It’s not the technology
Today, schools are focused on the upside of cloud deployments for everything from LMSs to SISs—and that upside can be truly significant. But even as earlier fears about…
Higher education funding needs an innovation makeover–here’s how
From new student learning pathways to questioning the merit of the credit hour, and from the move to enterprise cloud solutions to online learning models, colleges and universities…
Why moving past the SAT is essential in today’s admissions
In 2013, graduate programs received 1.97 million applications and accepted about 40.5 percent of applicants. The process relies heavily on standardized test scores to vet and decide which…
6 concerns students have about MOOCs
New qualitative research reveals students may know more about MOOCs than institutions think; have doubts on reliability. MOOCs have the ... Read more
Calculating indirect college costs could make all the difference
The American Council on Education has released a new paper urging more research on the implications for college students of indirect costs such as room and board, books…
Where to start? These are the basic technologies to improve retention
Student attrition from institutions of higher learning is an epidemic in the United States. According to a report by the National Student Clearinghouse, only 55 percent of first-time…
Going hard to soft for a better LMS
When students at Alvernia University were unable to complete tests in the Blackboard LMS because the system kept timing out, the small Pennsylvania school knew it had a…
Survey: Here’s why technology matters to college students
