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A Deal to Address Digital Inequity

University of Nevada, Reno, works with Apple to give first-year students iPads and tech training opportunities. Will others follow?

Time to Rethink AI Proctoring?

Proctoring companies that use artificial intelligence to monitor students’ behavior during online exams typically require university instructors to review footage of unusual activity. But is that human oversight actually happening?

Community Colleges Seek to Share Classes Online

A national online course-sharing consortium for community colleges aims to expand access to online learning. It’s also an attempt to relieve budgetary and enrollment pressures after a particularly challenging year.

Is Ed Tech Ready to Help Students of Color?

New report recommends investigating structures impeding success among students of color before throwing money at problems -- and also says more research and research funding are needed.

Failure to Launch

A state audit found that Calbright College, California's online community college, graduated just 12 out of over 900 enrolled students during the 2019-20 academic year. Lawmakers are considering closing the college.

Students Want Online Learning Options Post-Pandemic

The experience of learning remotely during the pandemic left students with a positive attitude toward online and hybrid courses, a new survey suggests.

Coursera IPO ‘Seized On the Right Moment’

Coursera’s initial public offering looked good for the company, which the market valued at over $7 billion. That's probably good news for competitors' valuations, even if it's not exactly clear which aspect of the online learning business attracted investors.

Awareness of Open Educational Resources Grows, but Adoption Doesn't

As COVID-19 forced professors to embrace digital texts, they were likelier to know about -- but not to use -- free, openly licensed materials. Progress was greatest at colleges that promoted OER, especially minority-serving ones.