What happened to gamification transforming online education?

Reported by EdSurge, a recent Horizon Report looked back at past predictions to see what they got wrong, including predicting gamification would quickly become a major force in higher education back in 2012.

Will the online education evolution create a new market for online proctoring?

Reported by EdSurge, Examity is a provider of live and automated proctoring services with more than 300 college and university customers looking to verify the identities of students taking exams.

A new neuroscience study is defending the arts?

Reported by EdSurge, Johns Hopkins’ Neuro-Education Initiative is designed to help improve faculty’s understanding of both neuroscience and basic cognitive understanding in order to improve best-practice professorial pedagogy.

Do we need to consider unbundling faculty in higher education?

Reported by Inside Higher Ed, the assumption that a single faculty member will teach, proctor, and assist 100% of the class 100% on their own, is beginning to be questioned.

Online programs open up not only broader recruitment possibilities, but remote faculty opportunities as well.

Reported by Inside Higher Ed, more and more institutions are experimenting with remote faculty for their online programs – faculty who work full-time from home, and potentially don’t even live in the same state as their campus.

Last year, Champlain College slashed their online undergraduate tuition in half.

Reported by Inside Higher Ed, since then, they’ve doubled their online enrollment.

Women now make up more than 50% of leadership roles at University of Michigan’s College of Engineering.

Reported by the Chronicle of Higher Education, this move toward diversity was not a charitable one, but a competitive one.

Upgrading our faculty’s online teaching chops is an institutional problem.

Reported by Inside Higher Ed, many institutions offer “optional” training for faculty to upgrade their understanding of online best practice pedagogy. But these sessions often bring in very low attendance numbers.

Can higher ed self-regulate our admissions side doors, or does the fed need to step in?

Reported by Inside Higher Ed, recent stories of admissions fraud have supported a populist sense of injustice in regards to higher ed admissions policies.