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Online Leaders: Fully In-person Students Will Be Outliers

Chief online officers believe most students' academic paths will feature prominent online components by 2025, a new survey finds. Other campus leaders see bigger role for in-person learning.
Opinion

The Packaging Is the Problem

Higher education's products remain in demand, but our packaging is the problem, Anthony R. Wheeler writes.

Leveling the Playing Field for Social Capital

Can technology help equalize students’ access to relationships that provide support, information and opportunity?

College in the Metaverse Is Here. Is Higher Ed Ready?

Proponents say virtual reality boosts student engagement and achievement. Others worry it may prioritize corporate profits and violate student privacy. As 10 metaversities launch this fall, the details are being worked out in real time.

Arizona Global Campus Absorbs Its Outsourced Online Program Manager

University buys assets of publicly traded Zovio to bring management of its roughly 28,000 online students in-house, citing online program management’s “inherent conflict.” Glad you finally noticed, critics say.

Amid Struggles, an Online Enabler Pivots

2U is laying off 20 percent of its workforce in wake of merger with edX but resetting how it charges institutions and offering them incentives to lower tuition.

Virtual Reality Boosts Students’ Empathy for Nature

VR can complement undergraduate environmental education in meaningful ways—and even offer opportunities and insight that are inaccessible by other means.

Education Department Shuts a ‘Free’ Program for Union Members

The U.S. Education Department says Eastern Gateway Community College’s online program violated federal financial aid rules. The college warns that freezing the program could endanger its future.