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Defining What's 'Good Enough' on Completion

The mostly online Rio Salado College pushes back on a critique of its graduation rates, while nonprofit colleges may be feeling more heat about their results amid the collapse of for-profits.

Next Steps Uncertain After Online Learning Catalyst Closes

The Connecticut Distance Learning Consortium served the state's online initiatives for two decades. Now the challenge -- or opportunity -- for the institutions is to continue that work as the consortium closes.

Textbook Alternatives Take Hold at Community Colleges

A high-profile affordable textbook program wraps up in Arizona having doubled its original goal, and other institutions share similar successes.
Opinion

Technology as a 'Flotation Device'

A professor and an undergraduate describe the positive and negative ways that students use technology to keep their heads above water academically.

Education Department Sets Timeline for $5 Million OER Pilot

The U.S. Department of Education is moving forward this summer on a $5 million program for the creation and development of OER.

The Pulse: The Future of Education

This month's episode of the Pulse podcast features a panel discussion from a recent conference about the future of education.

Shuttering a Statewide Provider of Online Support

Connecticut's budget shortages and enrollment challenges claim a distance-learning organization as its victim.