Digital courseware comes in many flavors and sizes, not dissimilar to Baskin Robbins (or Ben & Jerry's, if you prefer).  While costs are easy to compare the overall return - to the student, faculty and institution - is a bit trickier to uncover and requires effort...

As we look back on the past academic year at Junction we've seen similar effects through the data we've been analyzing - 4-8 minute attention spans, importance of peer support (synchronous and asynchronous) and the favorable effects of face-to-face instructor and peer...

Year-round access to Pell Grants certainly makes sense for the non-traditional student and facilitates access to anywhere, anytime learning programs that may not align with a traditional semester calendar. However, grant access alone won't be quite enough to get...

Quick read by @jasonboyers of Cleary University talking about the layoffs at University of Chicago that are coming on the heels of a building wave and putting in context of the changing nature of higher, and professional, education. For the past century, schools...

Business Insider did a quick summary of a recent report by the White House Council of Economic Advisers related to prime-age male labor force participation over a forty year window from 1975 through 2014. The results are a striking codification of the changes we've...

Setting aside the overly dramatic title, there are some factoids in this article worth highlighting as we consider the ongoing evolution of colleges and universities. An evolution which, by the way, has been going on for at least two centuries! In a survey of college...

It's not news that lower income and disadvantaged students find the transition to college particularly difficult, but a new study finds that if students received counseling and support prior to enrollment and during their first year of college they have a higher...

If you graduated from a U.S. college or university over a decade ago, what you remember as an undergraduate experience certainly isn't reflective of today's student body. We've covered the evolving landscape in our blog over the last few months but the Gates...

Carol Folt, Chancellor of UNC Chapel Hill has a piece in the Wall Street Journal making the case for improving education by trimming bureaucracy and administration - pointing the proverbial finger outward at reporting and regulatory requirements from state and federal...

Recent data from the Online Learning Consortium shows that online learning is finally mainstreaming with 5.8M students enrolled in one or more online courses and 77% of students reporting that technology increases engagement with course materials.  Perhaps not a...