eCampus News As the global economy changes and demands more highly-skilled workers, some experts are tracking what they call a third wave of postsecondary education reform focused on making sure graduates have career-long alignment between their education and the job market. The new report from Jobs for the Future (JFF) and […]
Ed Tech Magazine by Eli Zimmerman With the growing use of educational applications and online classroom software, student devices have become a ubiquitous tool for learning. Online courses are becoming a popular supplement to — and in some cases a replacement for — traditional on-campus education. With nearly half of undergraduate online students […]
Inside Higher Ed By Rick Seltzer After Mount Ida College closure, Massachusetts proposals grapple with whether colleges should disclose shutdown possibilities and when regulators should step in. Months after Mount Ida College’s sudden collapse rocked higher education-heavy Massachusetts, several arms of the state’s government are exploring regulatory changes to try to […]
Education Dive Dive Brief: The merger between Capella University’s parent company, Capella Education Company, and Strayer Education Inc., the parent company of Strayer University, has been approved by the Higher Learning Commission and is expected to close on or before Aug. 1. The resulting company will be named Strategic Education Inc., […]
Career Education Review Pima Medical Institute’s San Marcos campus was bustling with excitement on June 28, as the newest location in the heart of North City in Northern San Diego County was officially unveiled. Students, instructors and staff, and community partners were on hand for an official ribbon cutting. Many […]
Inside Higher Ed by Mark Lieberman University system’s program will let residential students enroll at no charge in online courses from any of the system’s 23 campuses — not just the one where they’re enrolled. Many institutions allow residential students to dabble in online courses as they work through their schedule of […]
Inside Higher Ed by Lindsay McKenzie Canvas has unseated Blackboard Learn as the leading LMS at U.S. colleges and universities, according to new data from MindWires Consulting. In a blog post on Monday, Michael Feldstein, partner at MindWires Consulting and co-publisher of the e-Literate blog, wrote that Canvas now has 1,218 installations at U.S. institutions, […]
Ed Surge By Jeffrey R. Young The technology platform and curriculum of the company called UniversityNow—which attracted more than $40 million in venture backing and ran an experimental for-profit college—has been sold to the nonprofit National University system, which plans to use the platform to deliver its online courses. The sale […]
Inside Higher Ed By Andrew Kreighbaum An Education Department plan to begin cutting large debt collection firms out of the student loan system is on hold after Congress warned against move. The Department of Education planned this month to begin reshaping the role of private debt collection firms in handling […]
CNBC The SEC on Friday said it settled a lawsuit against two former ITT Educational Services executives accused of hiding the defunct for-profit college operator’s actual financial condition from investors. The deal came after the SEC’s commissioners took the rare step last year of rejecting an earlier proposed settlement negotiated […]