7 signs your school may be a diploma mill

Leading edtech investor backs company to accelerate innovation in higher ed fundraising

2017’s best and worst community colleges

With back-to-school season in full swing and several states, such as New York and Rhode Island, offering free community-college education starting this month, the personal-finance website WalletHub recently released its report on 2017’s Best & Worst Community Colleges, coupled with its state-by-state ranking of the Best & Worst Community-College Systems.

Report: Faculty want more OER-here’s why

Community college faculty show high levels of interest and engagement in OER and are likely to promote OER use to colleagues, according to preliminary results from a national effort to expand community college degree programs. The study, Launching OER Degree Pathways: An Early Snapshot of Achieving the Dream's OER Degree…

Should institutions “nudge” students for graduation success?

In 2010, the British government, looking for innovative solutions to some of their most challenging social problems, formed the Behavioural Insights Team, better known as the Nudge Unit.