Academics

A $20 million project from National U seeks to combine adaptive courseware, predictive analytics and competency-based learning with a goal of better serving adult students.

State requires a change to remedial education that’s based on an increasingly popular reform concept.

Students are more likely to graduate from colleges that cost more and spend more than others, study finds.

EAB, a research and technology services company, says the time is right for an enterprise-level “student success management system.” Other vendors wonder what took them so long.

Essay argues the age of big data is the time for professors to reconsider their reliance on the anti-plagiarism business.

Colleges educating nontraditional learners would do well to study the Army’s competency-based approach, writes Steven Delvaux.

But avoid legislation that would cap bachelor’s degree programs and create new oversight board.

We in higher education must make it easier for first-generation students to find staff and faculty members who are dedicated to improving such students’ chances of graduation, argues Judith S. White.