Will Biden’s $100 billion broadband plan solve rural student college access? Reported by Vox, included in President Biden’s 2 trillion dollar American Jobs infrastructure proposal includes $100 billion designed to provide all Americans with affordable high-speed internet access. The takeaway? With 30 million Americans currently without access to any broadband, let alone affordable broadband, the […]

How can we make sure Course Hero doesn’t become college’s villain? Reported by Inside Higher Ed, Embry-Riddle University created a search engine to help their professors identify proprietary course materials uploaded to Course Hero, including homework assignments, quizzes, and tests, by students to help other students study. So far, this search engine has found 237,293 […]

Are online textbooks here to stay? Reported by Inside Higher Ed, while last year marked a massive uptick in online education, what about online textbooks? A full 62% of faculty used ebooks this past academic year, up from 53% the year prior. The takeaway? Nearly half of students still prefer print course materials according to […]

College endowment returns underperformed last year, too, returning only 1.8% year-over-year. Reported by Inside Higher Ed, while enrollment revenue suffered significantly across higher ed this past academic year, most college endowments also didn’t benefit from the tech stock market rally from last year, since higher ed endowments are more broadly invested in bonds and other […]

How determinant was our attitude going into COVID on our outcomes? Reported by Inside Higher Ed, a new study out of the University of Augsburg and the University of Manheim surveyed faculty attitudes going into their transition to remote instruction, and compared it against student ratings of their teaching quality. It turns out that the […]

What will a post-vaccination fall look like on our college campuses? Reported by Inside Higher Ed, the University of Wisconsin System is planning to hold 75% of their classes on-campus in person this fall, down only slightly from the 80% that were held in-person pre-pandemic. Is that too optimistic of a game plan? The takeaway? […]

What are the downsides of our ‘find yourself’ messaging we tell our students? Reported by Inside Higher Ed, while many colleges brand themselves as the place where students learn autonomy and self-discovery, the “hands-off” implication of that story may be precisely the wrong message for first-generation students who may need more help finding themselves in […]

Will Duolingo surpass TOEFL as the standard for our international student’s English testing? Reported by Inside Higher Ed, in the past 2 years, Duolingo has gone from their English language test being accepted by dozens of institutions up to more than 3,000 colleges today. In response, ETS, the maker of the TOEFL test, has released […]

Has online proctoring kept up with this past year’s leap in online education? Reported by EdSurge, students used to having built-in proctors with their in-person classes are now experiencing new opportunities and temptations to cheat they may never have had before. And professors are seeing cheating skyrocketing as a result, with a majority of students […]