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What Happened to Ivy Bridge?
Amid news of a federal investigation, previously unreleased documents offer glimpse into accreditor's scrutiny of an online partnership between a for-profit company and a nonprofit university.
Boost for Udacity Project
Student performance is up, retention is down, and San Jose State University's partnership with a MOOC provider is still on pause for the fall.
Don't Call It a MOOC
Guided by student performance results, two psychology professors at the U. of Texas at Austin take their introductory course online in what they think is the first ever "SMOC."
Opinion
Better Off Dead
In a rebuttal to a recent essay, faculty leaders explain why a recently stalled California bill to grant academic credit for third-party courses would have hurt students and taxpayers.
O.K., Glass, Teach
After a summer's worth of experimentation, educators are ready to bring Google Glass into the classroom -- but medical professors have already beat them to the punch.
Feminist Anti-MOOC
Can education be free and online and yet reject some of the choices made by proponents of massive open online courses? A class about to debut aims to show what's possible.
Opinion
Walking Into Big Data
Felicia B. LeClere has focused much of her career on data analysis, and considers why recent trends make her uneasy.
Experimental College's First Graduate
Competency-based education takes a major step forward in its challenge to seat time as College for America awards its first degree.