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IT Budgets Take a Hit
Two-thirds of public institutions report reductions, ending years in which information technology costs grew steadily.
E-Learning's 'Third Phase'
Though Blackboard's critics have worried the company might monopolize the market for e-learning tools, competition continues to surface -- notably...
Online Education's Great Unknowns
Distance learning has broken into the mainstream of higher education. But at the campus level, many colleges still know precious...
Adios to Spanish 101 Classroom
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is moving introductory Spanish courses completely online. Some students are worried, but department officials are not.
Forward Into the Cloud
With more students auto-forwarding e-mail to private accounts, even colleges that have not outsourced e-mail find it difficult to keep correspondence on their own servers.
Sustainable Hybrids
Case study by South Texas College suggests that courses that a blend of classroom and distance education can produce better outcomes than either one by itself.
The Mobile Campus
What did Abilene Christian University learn in its first year as a self-appointed guinea pig for mobile learning technology?
What Doomed Global Campus?
The attempt by the University of Illinois to build an online institution was a huge failure. What can it teach us?