By Daniel de Vise Eight years ago, leaders of the University of Texas set out to measure something few in higher education had thought to question — how much their students learn before graduation. An unsettling answer emerged: arguably, not very much. That conclusion is based on results from a 90-minute essay test given to [...]

Why Is This One Education Stock Taking Off? James Marshall Crotty Contributor As of 12:30 PM EST Monday, Archipelago (NASDAQ:ARCL), a subscription-based provider of education software-as-a-service, was up 22% in extremely high volume. Against a backdrop of tiring broader indexes and a malaise in other education stocks, all of which are far off their 52-week [...]

MIT launches free online ‘fully automated’ course By Sean Coughlan BBC News education correspondent Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), one of the world’s top-rated universities, has announced its first free course which can be studied and assessed completely online. An electronics course, beginning in March, will be the first prototype of an online project, known [...]

Solving Problems, Navigating Change, Fostering Education Innovation. Learning is our most enduring activity. Throughout our lives, as we go to school, learn to play a musical instrument, master a discipline or enhance our professional skills, we’re all perpetual students. Continuing education and lifelong learning are critical for success in the ‘flat’ world of the 21st [...]

Ok, so the campus LMS market is in transition. Blackboard’s announced plans to retire its legacy LMS applications is a major catalyst for this transition: upwards of 700 Blackboard LMS clients, primary but not exclusively colleges and universities, confront “up or out” decisions regarding their current campus implementations of retiring Angel, WebCT, and other older Blackboard-branded LMS applications.

Although eTextbook adoption in higher education is slower that some might anticipate, growth is steady. A recent Pew Research report indicated the eReader ownership doubled this past holiday season. Apple’s recent announcement about its entry into digital textbooks and self-publishing and its goal to provide a “a new textbook experience” provides a new surge in momentum toward the mainstreaming of eTextbooks. What impact will broader adoption of eTextbooks have on your campus? For students? For faculty?

The Occupy movement is starting to set up camp in university course catalogs, syllabuses and classrooms. There are new course offerings and a new focus in older ones. Professor Jeff Edwards, who is teaching “Occupy Everywhere” at Roosevelt University in Chicago this semester, says a third of the political science majors there are enrolled in [...]