Higher Education

MIT Names Its Provost, Who Led Online-Education Efforts, as New President

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Wednesday filled its top leadership position with one of its own. L. Rafael Reif,… More »

College Board Names David Coleman New President

Architect of Common Core State Standards to Lead Nonprofit Education Organization New York, NY – The Trustees of the College… More »

Outsourcing Online Coaches

Nonprofit group offers a pool of online teaching coaches to public universities, helping them staff growing programs quickly and cheaply…. More »

MOOCs and Machines

When Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology sent ripples through the higher education world last week by announcinge… More »

Legal Education and the Web

In an unusual move among highly ranked traditional law schools, the Washington University Law School today unveileda fully online master’s… More »

Internet2, 16 Major Technology Companies Announce Cloud Service Partnerships to Benefit the Nation’s Universities

Internet2 NET+ Services expand to help universities address research, education, big data and innovation challenges Arlington, VA—April 24, 2012—Internet2 and… More »

‘Supersizing’ the College Classroom: How One Instructor Teaches 2,670 Students

In October, Myanmar’s pro-democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, got a quirky request on YouTube. A hyperactive instructor in a… More »

College Credit Without College

The Internet takes college courses out of the classroom. But prior learning assessment takes college outside of college. The practice… More »

Harvard and MIT Put $60-Million Into New Platform for Free Online Courses

The group of elite universities offering free online courses just got bigger. Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology… More »

The Virtues of Blogging as Scholarly Activity

I have been an active blogger since 2006, and I often say that becoming one was the best decision I… More »