Within the next few years, as the ROI of collaboration becomes increasingly known, expect cross-departmental teamwork to be integral to the way all IT projects are handled, says Kamalika Sandell, associate CIO of American University. "There will be fewer boundaries in IT, and that will allow input to happen fluidly throughout the regular course of […]

Of all the new ideas bubbling to the surface in building state-of-the-art science centers, the one theme that was constant across all Inside Look submissions was creating spaces that foster collaboration—both among students and teachers within a specific science, as well as across all science disciplines. One school even calls its science center a "collaboratory." […]

Dozens of reports written over the last four decades have created the generally accepted theory that community college students who transfer to universities graduate at lower rate than do students who start out at four-year institutions. So when David Monaghan and Paul Attewell, researchers at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, […]

People walking past 160 Massachusetts Ave. in Boston are likely to both see and hear beautiful music being made. That's the point of this 14,000-square-foot addition to Berklee College of Music. CHALLENGE: College enrollment had grown to 4,000 full-time equivalents but housing was lagging behind. "We only had about 800 beds and we were unable […]

Administrators at public colleges and universities received larger raises in 2013 than did their private-institution counterparts. That's a key finding in the "2013-14 Administrators in Higher Education Salary Survey," conducted by the College and University Professional Association for Human Resources. The difference isn't substantial: Senior-level public administrators saw a median increase of 2.5 percent, while […]

University of Pennsylvania was one of Coursera's first four partners, having started its open course initiative in April 2012. Today, it offers 25 courses from 10 of its 12 schools, and has logged 1.9 million enrollments. Edward Rock, director of open course initiatives at UPenn, is speaking on the evolution of MOOCs in higher ed […]

The University of Central Florida is the second-largest university in the U.S., with 12 campuses serving 60,000 students. Keystone College, on the other hand, a small, private, liberal arts college in Pennsylvania, is on the other end of the spectrum, with just 2,000 students. Both institutions transitioned to a new learning management system—UCF to Canvas […]

It's not enough today to put together a presentation and talk through the slides. Students have short attention spans and need to be fully engaged with the course material. In this session, Brian Klaas, web systems designer for the Center for Teaching and Learning with Technology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, […]