Datatel and SunGard Higher Education have combined businesses and are now one company focused exclusively on serving global education. The strategic combination brings together two education industry specialists into one company with increased breadth and scale to meet the needs of institutions worldwide

By DAVID STREITFELD  | NY Times | January 19, 2012 A technology company announces plans to reinvent higher education by encouraging the creation of a new kind of textbook. Students will learn better, faster, cheaper. They will be spurred to new triumphs that will finally reverse the persistent decline in American education and the American way of [...]

In 2012, higher education institutions will look to improve the learning experience through analytics and personalized learning environments, while reducing costs with digital resources and cloud technologies. Washington, DC-based Gilfus Education Group has released its annual list of the top five trends in education innovation for 2012, which included three focused on higher education technologies:

Open CourseWare will publish 20 OCW Scholar courses in the next three years, all focused on introductory college-level science, mathematics, engineering and other foundational subjects. The first OCW Scholar courses to be released will be: 8.01SC Physics I, 8.02SC Physics II, 18.01SC Calculus I, 18.02SC Calculus II and 3.091SC Introduction to Solid State Chemistry. These courses are OCW’s first attempt at this new approach, and OCW will actively seek user feedback on each of them.

See which schools are tops for online bachelor’s and master’s degrees. By Kelsey Sheehy January 10, 2012 RSS Feed Print Online course enrollment in the United States hit an all-time high in 2010 with more than 6.1 million students, and the trend shows no signs of leveling off, according to a 2011 report by the [...]

- Maureen Downey  for the AJC Get Schooled blog From the board of Regents on proposed consolidations of eight campuses, which are bound to spark political battles, turf wars and naming feuds: University System of Georgia Chancellor Hank Huckaby is recommending to the Board of Regents that eight of the System’s 35 colleges and universities be [...]

As 2011 comes to a close, the time has come to reflect on how innovation and perhaps failure have shaken up the education system. A version of this post was originally published on the LearnBoost blog (that I manage), but it has been syndicated for its broader implications and interest to a more general audience. [...]