Open Educational Resources (OER): The Ultimate Guide
Traditional textbooks—even electronic editions—are overpriced for students and for teachers, and worse still, the price of hard copy and…
Traditional textbooks—even electronic editions—are overpriced for students and for teachers, and worse still, the price of hard copy and…
The current College Scorecard doesn’t give students enough information—so the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is trying to make…
Co-editor of Inside Higher Ed says that people mainly focus on the 'free' aspect of Open Educational Resources, but often forget about its…
A student social media campaign is shedding light on the high cost of university textbooks, and the digital solutions that could save…
Andrew Petto, PhD, is Distinguished Lecturer Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. A former anatomy and physiology lecturer,…
PJ Glandon, an economics professor at Kenyon College in Ohio, spoke recently on our Engage 2017 conference panel on the Pros and Cons of OER…
Educators have good reasons for turning their backs on traditional textbooks. While textbooks have until now been an essential teaching…
The first days of a new semester used to always be the same: students were physically present for class and roll call was taken. Then,…
Three years ago, the global consulting firm McKinsey & Company provided a dire forecast for the sector in a report titled The Future of…
Ohio State University has saved students an estimated $1.8 million to date by ditching in-class clickers for Top Hat and OER textbooks with…
The Affordable College Textbook Act, Bill H.R. 3840, was introduced into Congress last month by Jared Polis, a Democrat from Colorado.…
In the latest of our innovative educators series, we look at what happens when one professor introduced his history undergraduates to an…
Columbia’s esteemed journalism school is offering a new degree program that incorporates data science — for a price tag of $147,514. In…
Research, information literacy and deconstructing a problem are all important skills honed by a humanities degree, says associate professor…
Hardcover college textbooks can cost up to $400, and many classes require multiple textbooks—which is why students are being forced to…
Postsecondary institutions have wildly different ideas of how much it costs to live in school—and it varies even for institutions in the…
If students want to succeed in a market where 35% of workers are freelance, more focus is needed on relationship, communication and…
The Fulbright scholarship data was released this month, and public schools have made a strong showing.