No one institution needs to create emerging learning technology alone.

Reported by EducationDive, The CoAction Learning Lab, led by Penn State University is a group of 19 public and private colleges dedicated to sharing open license learning resources and pooling knowledge so all member institutions can get better faster.

In deep knowledge fields, cursory reading and passive listening to a lecture is often not enough to experience deep knowledge breakthrough.

Reported by EdSurge, The University of Memphis’ AutoTutor is an attempt to engage students with multiple tutor agents who will debate each other, in order to intentionally create cognitive disequilibrium for the student, all while monitoring student emotions to avoid frustration.

Drexel University has created an online hub called Virtually Inspired, with more than 100 case studies on how institutions across the country are doing online education well.

Reported by Campus Technology, in 2016 Drexel University saw a problem with a lack of best practice online instruction and innovation, and decided to create a resource hub where institutions could all come, see what’s working at other institutions, and continuously improve.

Turns out, higher Ed IT leaders don’t approve of their institution’s IT investments.

Reported by Campus Technology, in a surprising finding from the Campus Computing Survey, only in one single area – student recruitment – do at least half of our IT leaders rate their institution’s IT investment as “very effective”.

South Carolina is now offering its residents free coding courses through their SC Codes program.

Reported by Campus Technology, these online courses provide South Carolina residents basic knowledge in front-end and back-end web development, and the site itself attempts to connect course completers with potential job opportunities.

Why are college dropouts returning to North Carolina state schools in record numbers?

Reported by The Atlantic, the new NC Promise program lowers tuition to $500 a semester for in-state students at select institutions, and at $2,500 a semester for out of state students.

What if you crowdsourced innovation ideas from your faculty and staff?

Reported by EdSurge, Long Beach State University did just that, crowdsourcing 24,000 suggestions from their students, faculty and staff about the future of the university.

Reported by Inside Higher Ed, a new report out of Columbia University attempted to better understand the motivations of nondegree MOOC students, and the results indicate that the vast majority of these students already have a degree (80% already having a bachelor’s and 40% already having a master’s), and are simply looking to acquire new skills or potentially evolve/pivot their careers.

Reported by Inside Higher Ed, while higher education enrollment dropped by almost 90,000 students from fall 2016 to fall 2017, the number of students taking at least some of their courses online grew by more than 350,000. And now, about one in six students are enrolled exclusively online, up 15.4% year over year.

Reported by Education Dive, this is largely the result of significant gaps in state funding, with The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities reporting a $7 billion decline in states’ higher education funding since 2007.