Online education is getting a lot of attention as many elite schools are opening up their classrooms for the world to access what, for a long time, had been reserved for a fortunate few. There is no ...

Higher education has long faced a new financial normal—including pressure to hold down tuition and fee increases, cuts in governmental support, and increased competition from new players. Changes in ...

Drawing on the experience of eight public universities involved in a multi-year adaptive learning pilot program, the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) has created a six-step ...

In a fall 2020 survey of institutions piloting adaptive courseware in gateway courses, 96 percent of faculty agreed that the technology helped them improve student learning, and allowed them to better ...

courseware: practical content, engagement/interactivity, and quality pre-and post-assessments. “I think it’s a process of education and research,” said Flanagan. “You have to really ask yourself some ...

“What has the impact been of MOOCs on MIT OCW usage?” Matthew Rascoff (@mzrascoff) tweeted earlier this week. It’s a great question. Have massive open online classes spurred more interest in MIT Open ...

Meghan is an associate editor with EdTech. She enjoys coffee, cats and science fiction TV. Now, more than ever, higher education stakeholders believe digital course materials are the key to solving ...

The second in a three-part series about courseware. Parts 1 and 3 are here and here. M ontoya Thomas recalls sleepless nights in college, crushing energy drinks from the local Smoothie King as she ...

You may remember the syllabus. Handed out on the first day of class, it was a revered and simple artifact that would outline the plan of a college course. It was a pragmatic document, covering contact ...

The gaps remain stark: first-year students of color and learners from low-income backgrounds wash out of entry-level “gateway” courses at significantly higher rates than their white peers. Those early ...

University of Western Australia provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation AU. I have just enrolled in a university course called Introduction to Sociology taught out of Princeton ...