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Can ‘Nudges’ Make Students Study More? Maybe Someday

Researchers hoped that online communications would prod students to nearly double their study time. It barely budged, but their study shows how scholars can measure impact (or lack thereof) of educational interventions.

Digging Deeper Into Controversy Over Learning Styles

What's expected of instructors and students at Central Florida, how the university is responding, and everything else you need to know.

Apple Persists With Community Colleges

Community colleges working with Apple on coding courses report promising returns from the first year of the partnership.
Opinion

Fit In, Stand Out or Do Nothing

Those are the three ways colleges and universities can respond in the face of the disruption that some predict could capsize many of them, write Eli Bildner and Allison Dulin Salisbury. They offer advice for staying relevant.

Single Project Earns Federal OER Pilot Grant

Updated: Education Department awards $4.9 million to a 12-institution consortium led by UC Davis for open STEM textbooks. Advocates push for spreading the wealth for next year's round of funding.

The Pulse: Harvard Innovation Labs

This month the Pulse podcast features an interview with Jodi Goldstein, executive director at Harvard Innovation Labs, which helps Harvard students, alumni and faculty members explore innovation and entrepreneurship.

Moodlerooms No More. Now It's Blackboard Open LMS

Blackboard has formally changed the name of its product that serves institutions that use Moodle's open-source learning management system, in...

Google Curriculum, College Credit

Tech giant gets hands-on with its new online IT certificate, as a growing number of community colleges and Northeastern University create credit pathways with the curriculum.