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Smartphones for All Students: An Academic Equalizer in an Era of Income Inequality?
An academic prompts debate after commenting on low-income students’ need for smartphones and how lack of access to the devices can hurt college performance.
Spotlight on Innovation: Managing Online Growth at Texas Tech
A popular online human resources concentration marked an early indication of the potential popularity of distance learning at the institution.
How (and Whether) to Balance Online and On-Ground Enrollment
Some on-ground institutions are close to 50 percent online enrollment. But how important is the proportion?
Digital Learning in 'Inside Higher Ed' This Week
Among the topics: U.S. to examine online "enablers"; federal aid and alternative providers; autograding run amok; two professors ask: Should we teach online?
How MOOC Collaboration Could Aid On-Campus Teaching and Learning
Creating a sharing economy for MOOC content among universities in open online consortiums wouldn’t be simple but could have enormous benefits for those institutions and others, Daniel Seaton writes.
Consolidating Instead of Merging
As some small private colleges merge with one another, others simply contract, closing up branch campuses -- some of them long-standing and hundreds of miles away.
Online Learning: A 2-Voiced Case for Ambivalence
Wading into the rip currents of online learning evangelism and countersurging cries of alarm about the corporatization of higher ed, Steve Mentz and Christopher Schaberg seek steady footing.
To Pursue Federal Aid or Not
The Trump administration wants to spur more innovation in higher education. But some question whether pursuing federal student aid is worth it for alternative providers.