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An IT Accessibility Watchdog?
As lawsuits mount over access to learning technologies for people with disabilities, universities consider banding together to share accessibility reviews of vendor products.
Rankings Math Questioned
A Hong Kong university is accused of underreporting enrollment numbers to boost its faculty-student ratio and ranking. The university says it is commissioning an independent audit but emphasizes that there are differences in data definitions.
N.Y. Private Colleges See In-State Enrollment Decline
Many of New York State’s private nonprofit colleges that rely heavily on in-state students are taking enrollment hits this fall...
Trump Won't Meet American Nobel Laureates
Breaking with longstanding tradition -- through Democratic and Republican administrations -- President Trump will not host a meeting with this...
Opinion
Hitting the Accelerator
Scott McLemee reviews The Acceleration of Cultural Change: From Ancestors to Algorithms, in which social networks, big data, memes and the like are presented as extreme cases of the creative and disruptive potentials or our tool-oriented species.
Boosting Faculty Buy-In for Online Learning -- and Why It's Not Easy
Digital learning leaders diagnose the challenges of seeking faculty support -- and possible solutions to obtaining it.
Many Trustees See Faculty as Barrier to Change
College and university trustees widely agree that the public’s perception of higher education has been eroding and that higher education’s...
How Many Online Courses Should Athletes Be Allowed to Take?
Iowa imposed limit on distance education by its athletes, only to back away. Does online ed help athletes learn, or just make it easier for them to miss classes?