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More colleges are issuing digital badges to help their students display skills to employers or graduate programs, and colleges are tapping vendor platforms to create a verified form of the alternative credentials. Inside Higher Education
Technology has the potential to solve the affordability and access problem in higher education, according to the author of Revolution in Higher Education. Campus Technology
This paper, the result of panel discussions and working groups convened by the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science, examines several key issues in distance education with respect to the profound impact that they will have on training and education in geographic information science in the U.S., and on the overall effectiveness of colleges and […]
This paper makes a number of recommendations to academic leaders and practicing academics on promoting the uptake of technology-enabled learning (TEL) across their institutions and on their programmes. The approach throughout is to privilege the academic voice and to reflect the views of practicing academics and their students. The authors – the heads of an […]
This paper provides a critical and contextualised exploration of assessment for learning (AfL) as an important area of scholarship in higher education, particularly in online learning environments. Although AfL can speak to a range of education discourses, the specific focus here is on the performativity and experiential learning discourses around individual and collective notions of […]
Blackboard Inc., the world’s leading education technology company for teaching, learning and student engagement, today announced that an affiliate of the company has successfully completed its acquisition of Higher One Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: ONE). StreetInsider.com
EXETER, N.H. — Emily Duggan, 16, spends most afternoons at a dance studio tucked behind a shopping plaza near her home. Blond and doe-eyed, Duggan has been dancing since she was two, everything from tap to ballet. She puts in about 12 hours a week at the studio, including classes and rehearsals with the dance […]
Levi Geyer and Leslie Black, two Penn State students now going to school online, didn’t follow the traditional path to college. After he graduated high school in 2011, Geyer went away to college. But, after his first year, he was uncertain about his future. He left school, returned home to Turbotville and found work at Members […]
Competitive law and medical schools may be more hesitant to accept them than other disciplines, experts say. U. S. News & World Report
Technology think tank says standardized testing by outside groups and alternative forms of credentialing could create helpful competitive pressure on higher education and the traditional college degree. Inside Higher Education
