With the nation debating models and metrics for the federal government’s rating of America’s more than 4,000 colleges and universities, there’s one crucial area that no one talks…
Usually, when your rich uncle mansplains how to become a successful lawyer/banker/doctor/midlife-crisis-haver at Thanksgiving dinner every year, he will counsel you, “Don’t major in underwater basket-weaving or English,…
During the summer break on campuses nationwide, providers of massive open online courses (MOOCs) were evidently hard at work developing their fall-term offerings and broadening their capabilities—and were…
Massive Open Online Courses, or MOOCs, are served up by a variety of companies, organizations and educational institutions, including Coursera, Udemy, Iversity, EdX and many others, Tech News…
A university professor who wrote a blog post detailing how the National Security Agency breaks secure internet connections was asked to remove the article from the school's servers,…
Marc Torrence noticed a change in his popularity after covering his first University of Alabama football game -- he gained thousands of followers on Twitter, USA Today reports.…
Massive online open courses, while benefiting many that would not receive the education otherwise, should be a complement, not a replacement, to traditional lecture hall classes. UNC launched…
These days a tablet or smartphone is as essential for college students as a backpack, a meal plan, and extra long twin sheets. But it’s not the hardware…
Statistics and interdisciplinary study are the focus of three new academic programs at the University of Virginia, The Daily Progress reports. Two of them — both undergraduate —…
The world of higher education as we have known it has entered the twilight zone. Their contours still recognizable, America's colleges and universities are becoming shades of their…
Faculty members at universities are often criticized for being reluctant to embrace new digital tools and instruction models, InformationWeek reports. The University of Oklahoma, with its One University…
