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WASHINGTON -- Federal investigators are probing whether a former top Education Department official violated the law by allegedly sharing information inappropriately about new regulations with an advocacy group he founded.
Newly released court documents show that federal prosecutors believe the Education Department's former deputy undersecretary, Robert Shireman, might have violated executive-branch ethics laws by allegedly discussing sensitive government information with the group...
Some of the nation's most elite professors are taking up a new teaching fad: Massively Open Online Courses. MOOCs rhymes with nukes, and the reach is about the same. These classes streamed on the Internet have millions of students around the world enrolling. They're free of charge. But when you add up all the work it takes on and off camera to make a MOOC, the cost to professors is pretty high. As Prof. Kevin Werbach can attest, the life of a MOOCs rockstar is not pure glitz.
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Well, not die, exactly. Transform.
“The term career services has been a phrase that has been used for several decades to describe what colleges have been doing,” says Andy Chan, vice president for personal and career development at Wake Forest University. "It’s not working."
Chan co-edited the new report, "A Roadmap for Transforming the College-to-Career Experience."
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Analysts are expecting a less severe sanction against the University of Phoenix than originally expected.
Phoenix-based Apollo Group Inc., which operates UOP, disclosed this morning that a peer review report by the Higher Learning Commission recommended that UOP be placed on “notice,” which means the HLC could impose a less severe sanction than was expected earlier this year.
The HLC board is expected to give its decision June 27.
One of the issues revolves...
Academia is hardly known for its rapid embrace of change.
But when it comes to accepting massive open online courses, or MOOCs, some worry university leaders may need to slam on the brakes.
It's been less than three years since MOOCs entered the public discourse, but the online classes are already causing quite a stir in the higher education universe as elite universities such as Princeton University, the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Michigan—Ann...
