80% of online students said they complete some, if not all, of their course work using a mobile device.

Reported by Inside Higher Ed, this data point from a recent Aslanian Market Research survey may be a wake-up call for institutions who don’t have a mobile-first design purview.

Reported by The Chronicle of Higher Education, The University of Virginia are looking into what’s preventing faculty members from adopting the new teaching practices they’re learning about, and excited about, from UVa’s Center for Teaching Excellence.

Reported by Inside Higher Ed, course share agreements among consortium partners mean that institutions can focus on their academic strong suits and leverage their consortium partner’s respective academic focal points to fill in their course gaps. That way, the students gets the very best from every institution in the partnership.

More and more institutions continue to move away from SAT and ACT admission requirements.

Reported by Inside Higher Ed, Creighton and Ferris State universities are the more recent to adopt and pilot (respectively) this trend – with the data-driven belief that a student’s academic record is a much stronger indicator of collegiate success than these entrance exams, and will also open up their institutions to a much more diverse student pool.

Reported by Education Dive, the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston released a new study demonstrating how every dollar cut from state funds dedicated to higher education leads to a $0.17 increase in net tuition and a whopping $0.30 drop in instructional spending at public doctoral colleges in New England.

How can we develop effective employer partnerships?

Reported by Education Dive, it’s about making sure we’re starting with the needs of the individual business. That we help them identify their skill gaps and their operational challenges, including recruitment and employee retention. And only then working collaboratively to develop an educational program that helps close those gaps.

What if industry sponsored an institution’s research efforts dedicated to that industry?

Reported by Education Dive, NYU’s Tandon School of Engineering’s new Institute of Design and Construction Innovations is fully supported by member construction industry firms and designed to provide them with innovation and research in construction, engineering, design and management.

Is a distraction-free zone the biggest benefit of an on-campus course?

Reported by EdSurge, one professor at San Francisco State University has created a 5-hour class dedicated only to reading, where the class begins with his framing of the reading, and then all technology devices are turned in for the remainder of the class.

Reported by EdSurge, a recent SXSW EDU panel claimed such with examples including how only 8% of the credentials students earn are in demand by employers, and that only .1% of students are earning a specific IT credential that would open up $80,000 job opportunities.

Reported by Inside Higher Ed, Georgia Tech has partnered with both Udacity and AT&T in hopes of creating lifelong learning options for their computer science and cybersecurity students – understanding that the speed of change, especially in tech fields, happens so quickly that to assume anything but lifelong learning will keep our students job market-ready is foolish.