Increasing college completion rates can be helped by engaging students in the college experience, and connecting to students on devices they use all day long is one way to ensure engagement. More...
09 octobre 2016
Collabco launches personalized academic organizer
Higher education leaders mobilize to expand tuition-free community college
Event highlighted College Promise programs already in place and offered ideas to college leaders looking to start their own programs. More...
What does it really mean to prepare students for the workforce?
By Meris Stansbury. It used to be that preparing students for a job post-graduation meant knowing how to dress for a job interview and developing critical-thinking skills. And while problem-solving talent is still valued, today’s competitive market requires much more from recent graduates. More...
Underground university: Bay Area teachers beam secret online classes to Iran
By Katy Murphy. As learning becomes risky for some students, teachers are turning to online classes to help. More...
Research: Students value college, but not for the reasons you’d think
By Lisa Malat. With the cost of a college education uppermost in the minds of students and their parents, the actual value of college, and even how you might begin to measure it, increasingly has come under scrutiny. More...
When the only certainty is change
By Jeremy Cunningham. In this day and age, one must declare allegiance to one of a handful of corporations for their technology needs. We have all faced this choice in the last few years as our emails, calendars, phones, TVs, and homes have become more synchronized than ever. More...
5 seemingly ubiquitous technologies higher ed still unsure about
By Meris Stansbury. New innovations in higher-ed technology and practice are popping up daily in higher education's reinvention—but that doesn’t mean they have seals of approval. More...
6 best practices for successful change management
By Meris Stansbury. Experts say mitigating uncertainties and sense of loss, using data, two of the biggest keys to effective change management. More...
The Friday 4: Your weekly ed-tech rewind - September 2nd, 2016
By Laura Devaney. At a conference hosted by Harvard and MIT, schools using the open-source edX platform agreed on a common data structure for their online courses, with the goal of facilitating research on how students learn. More...
Does your faculty actually know what OER are?
By Laura Devaney. The study, Opening the Textbook: Educational Resources in U.S. Higher Education, attempts to discern the process faculty use to select educational materials used in their courses, and it focuses in part on OER awareness and use. More...
