Filter & Sort
Opinion
CliffsNotes for Credit
Daniel F. Sullivan tried out one of the new alternative providers of online education -- and emerged horrified that the courses have been recommended for credit.
Opinion
Teaching 'Fun Home'
Domenick Scudera has been using the novel for years in a course for all freshmen at Ursinus College. If critics would read the book, he writes, they would find a work ideal for new college students.
Minecraft in the Classroom
University of Hull demonstrates pedagogical potential of world-building game.
Learning to Adapt
Newark's Essex County College tried adaptive learning software to improve remedial math success rates. It hasn't worked, as students and faculty have struggled with the "self-regulated" approach to learning.
Multiple Personalities, Disorder
Researchers at Harvard U and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology find a uniquely MOOC way of cheating.
Not Just Research
Organization of leading universities is pushing for undergraduate STEM education to get more attention -- and initiative seems to be yielding results.
What Freshmen Know ... and Don't Know
Beloit releases its annual "mind-set list" to remind us that this year's batch of new students don't remember Princess Diana, Jacques Cousteau or a world without Google.
Defining College
Amid talk of higher education's possible disruption and unbundling, the Association of American Colleges & Universities stakes out an aggressive middle ground. Are people listening?