Tech & Innovation

A report explores how online learning leaders decide whether to use companies to deliver and manage their academic programs or handle the work in house.

Tens of thousands of 18- to 24-year-olds are now enrolling at Western Governors, Southern New Hampshire and other national online institutions. Does this represent a change in student behavior?

Students who use collaborative annotation tools learn and build community, according to a new study. Many faculty members are enthusiastic proponents of the tools, even while acknowledging their limitations.

Colleges’ digital outreach to prospective students via social media, text messages and email has proven effective, a new report says. But many admissions professionals struggle to extract stories from imperfect data.

After scrambling fall courses by withdrawing more than 1,380 ebooks, Wiley now says it will restore access to the course materials. Its short-term solution leaves many librarians unsatisfied.

Wiley withdraws more than 1,300 titles from a large multidisciplinary ebook collection for libraries as fall classes begin, hindering students’ access to affordable learning materials.

Move is significant because China, Japan, South Korea and India are among the top 10 research producers.

Altmetrics track how scholarly works are discussed, shared, read and reused online. Such real-time feedback may especially matter for underrepresented and early-career researchers, though the metrics have limitations.