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…
Earlier this summer, Purdue’s computer servers were hacked. Three former Purdue students are being charged with an assortment of crimes — among them, conspiracy to commit computer tampering…
Coincidentally, the last three courses I reviewed in the weekly Degree of Freedom News ... all elicited similar commentary regarding whether a course felt like a college class…
Instruction does not equate to learning. This is the fundamental fly in the ointment of instructional design, and the epistemological failing of learning management systems and most MOOC…
When Nick Jensen attended New York University – he graduated in 2011 – he was frustrated with the university’s lack of social media presence, SocialTimes reports.
There are a lot of lessons that you won't learn in the classroom: A master's program is not an across-the-board answer for all; it really depends on your…
House Education Committee Chairman Rep. John Kline, who saw a dramatic upsurge in campaign contributions from for-profit colleges in recent months, is pushing legislation that would help the…
Colleges are ramping up strategies to ensure that the student who gets the grade for taking an online course is the same person who does the homework and…
Technology is about to take a step that could set off a broad disruption in higher education: It’s offering a new master’s degree in computer science, delivered through…
We’ve repeatedly called on the University to be more transparent. Its disclosure of students’ social security numbers was not what we had in mind, the Cavalier Daily reports.
