Newly released data from HarvardX and MITx, the MOOC divisions of Harvard and MIT, has shed light on interesting trends emerging from the world of MOOCs. With nearly 2 million combined students, data shows that the majority of those students are male and already have college degrees. MITx has the greatest disparity between male and […]

According to a recent Babson Survey Research Group report, the number of students taking at least one online course has now reached 7.1 million. The proportion of higher education students in this category has reached an all-time high of 33.5 percent taking at least one online course. “Grade Change – Tracking Online Education in the […]

The Workforce Credentials Coalition, a newly formed body of 20 states, just held its first meeting at the New America Foundation on April 7. The group, led by teams in California and North Carolina, hopes to develop a framework of joint standards around data sharing between industry and professional certifying bodies. Leading the charge is […]

Education technology investment has taken 2014 by storm, already accumulating over $550 million dollars in the fiscal first quarter. According to CB Insights, a large venture capital database that tracks promising private companies, this accounts for nearly 45 percent of the sector’s total funding in all of 2013. Investors spent $559 million dollars in 103 […]

Distance education enrollment continues to grow with each passing year. Tuition costs are also continuing to rise. A recent report by Hanover Research, based on analysis of Peterson’s Distance Learning Database, revealed that the average cost of an online bachelor’s degree is $43,477. The report looked at 699 non-profit institutions that offer online degree programs […]

Last month the Obama administration released a voluntary best practices framework to address the growing concerns surrounding increased cyber attacks on government, corporate and research institution networks. Last summer, Stanford University suffered a security breach, allegedly at the hands of a hacker by the moniker  “Ag3nt47.” The mission of Executive Order 13636 is to “enhance […]

The GED has always been a safe haven for those that never finished high school for one reason another. Created over 70 years ago, the General Educational Development test is now facing some design and policy overhauls. The new tests will be aligned to match the Common Core State Standards that are being introduced to […]

The start of each new semester at colleges and universities around the United States means the federal government continually faces a barrage of financial aid scams. The rise in rip-offs may continue as the Obama administration outlined a plan to raise the amount of financial aid available to students in a August 2013 plan. The […]

The large and sweeping Higher Education Act is set to be reauthorized this year and everyone from journalists to President Barack Obama weighing in on the matter. The act, originally passed in 1965 and last renewed in 2008, dictates how federal funding is awarded the nation’s institutions of higher learning and  financial aid programs. The […]

The president of Excelsior College, John Ebersole, recently penned an article in Forbes that outlines the issues facing higher education in 2014. The article provides a quick look into what educators, institutions and students of higher learning can look forward to in the coming months. Issues surrounding the spiraling costs of higher education continues to […]