How can we help students fight fake news by teaching them information literacy? In an article by The Chronicle of Higher Education, David Gooblar from the University of Iowa provided advice on how to incorporate information literacy into your courses. His advice includes partnering with your librarians on-campus to incorporate learnings in your classroom, teaching students how to evaluate sources based on author credentials and ideological spectrums, and encouraging “lateral” reading...

Has big data’s promise for higher ed been made good on in a big way yet, or are we still stuck in the fad stage of true data intelligence? Higher ed leaders are quick to be excited on the intelligence promises of big data, but often underestimate the reality of the data infrastructure they need to create and the data normalization process that needs to occur, before their data is truly usable at all. And that’s why many who have been in higher ed for decades have grown tired of the clarion calls...

Students continue to utilize course review sites like RateMyProfessors.com to share their course experiences, determine a course’s difficulty, and learn a professor’s hot-or-not’ness before enrolling. Reported by The Chronicle of Higher Education, Princeton University in response has published a more transparent and comprehensive student review of courses, through a forum they’ve named Principedia. Any Princeton community member can publish a thorough review on course instruction and assignments...

Ivy League degrees are coming for the nontraditional student. Reported by Inside Higher Ed, The University of Pennsylvania is partnering with Coursera to offer a fully online master’s degree in computer and informational technology for $26,300, roughly 1/3 of the campus version’s price tag. This follows the path trailblazed by Georgia Tech and Udacity, who now have the largest computer science master’s degree program in the country, but at an even much lower price point of $7,000. While there are conc

As higher ed’s student body begins to migrate more and more online, how do our physical on-campus spaces need to adjust? Reported by The Chronicle of Higher Education, Fayetteville State University is demolishing two unoccupied dormitories. But it’s not because Fayetteville State is struggling from an enrollment perspective – it’s simply that their student body continues to move more and more online. The takeaway? It’s important to think about how the needs of your physical spaces...

Do laptops and mobile devices help students in the classroom, or distract them? Reported by Inside Higher Ed, a recent study from Rutgers University was published in Educational Psychology, revealing a causal link between cellphone and laptop use during class and poorer exam scores. Testing student performance against themselves, 118 students were split into two groups given on- and off-days for when they could use technology in the classroom, and exam scores were shown to be poorer for students...

Are colleges graduating students truly prepared to make a meaningful difference in the workforce from day one? Reported by The Chronicle of Higher Education, Paul Quinn College became the first historically black college to be designated a “work college” by the U.S. Department of Education, in which every student is given a job or internship throughout their entire academic tenure at the institution, regardless of financial need. These jobs and internships take place...

The hardest degree programs to bring 100% online have been the lab-heavy programs. But could virtual reality and augmented reality help?

The first 5 minutes of a university class is very much like the first sentence of a novel. If you can’t grab and hold their attention with your opening, you are likely to lose them.

For years, colleges and universities welcomed full-pay international students to help balance out their traditional student tuition discount rate. But with a downtrend in international student interest due to changes in the political climate, some institutions are changing their pricing structure to attract more international students.