Report: Giving Credit for Prior Learning Boosts Persistence
Anew report from Pearson Education and the American Council on Education lays out the benefits to students, institutions and employers for issuing credit for prior learning.
MoreFour States To Gain Data-Driven Workforce-Education Alignment Help
An organization that works with community colleges and industry to make sure people learn the "middle skills" they need to get good jobs will be working with four states to implement new data tools to inform decision-making for workforce policymakers.
MorePenn State Prof's New App Would Give Study Participants Control Over Their Data
A Penn State professor is working on a system that would allow study participants to send data collected on themselves to an independent data store and let researchers retrieve it only as necessary.
MoreDel Mar College Cuts Transcript Evaluation Time to Within 48 Hours
Transcript evaluation at Del Mar College once took several weeks to complete.
MoreThe Ohio State University Rolls Out BYOD Student Engagement Tool
With a focus on creating an active learning environment in the classroom, The Ohio State University is deploying the Top Hat classroom engagement system to nearly 65,000 students and 7,000 faculty members.
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