Teaching & Learning

Private companies can help colleges achieve their goals, but the faculty should never lose control of their courses and programs, Melora Sundt writes.

While competency-based education is spreading gradually, interest and optimism about it remain high, and experts say careful growth is best.

The U.S. Department of Education is contemplating going back to the drawing board on complex rules governing authority to operate online programs in multiple states.

As numerous law schools try to take advantage of new flexibility from their accreditor, some state policies lag behind those ambitions.

More say they will increase emphasis on and allocate "major funds" to online offerings. Survey also finds solid but not spectacular support for open educational resources, and that backing for competency-based programs is more philosophical than practical.

Experts involved in crafting new federal rules for online education and classroom innovation want more clarity from the Department of Education about its priorities and rationales.

Study finds that student resistance to curriculum innovation decreases over time as it becomes the institutional norm, and that students increasingly link active learning to their learning gains over time.