Tech & Innovation

This month's episode of the Pulse podcast features a recording of a panel discussion about artificial intelligence and machine learning at November's Reimagine Education Conference in San Francisco.

Online education has spurred institutions to experiment with courses shorter than a full semester, weighing pedagogical and financial factors as they decide on the proper length.

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

Liberty University is standing by its chief information officer despite reports that he accepted cash to rig online polls for Donald Trump.

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

A dazzling array of works from 1923 are now available freely to scholars, artists and writers, opening up new possibilities for teaching and publishing.

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.