Higher Ed

Like many educators, I've been thrust into a brave new world of AI and modern teaching that I had not been trained for and to which appropriate responses aren't always clear

Research and tips for implementing pretesting in the classroom from Steven C. Pan, director of the Learning Sciences Laboratory at the National University of Singapore

Jane Rosenzweig sees potential for AI in the future but is critical of many of its current classroom applications.

Free interactive STEM spreadsheets can get your students started in both simple and complex computations.

Learning by videos outperformed in-person lectures in an analysis of more than 105 studies looking at college students.

Teach higher-order thinking skills with these top free resources.

These best virtual lab sites and apps are all free, highly engaging, and informative—and most don’t require registration.

Dr. Francine Berman permitted her students at UMass to use ChatGPT to help them write. Despite limitations, she found there were ways it could help edit student work.

Online learning pioneer Sal Khan believes ChatGPT-style AI technology is going to change the world and educators are already among the first to feel its impact.

Labor-based grading is an approach pioneered by rhetoric and composition professor Asao Inoue to be fairer for all students and separate learning from assessment

The MBA program at Worcester Polytechnic Institute’s new return on investment tool is designed to help prospective students make better decisions about graduate school spending.

Strict due dates are ingrained in all levels of education but some educators find when they get rid of them there’s less stress and more learning.

The Second Chance Pell pilot program has permitted more than 28,000 students in prison to access Pell Grants in order to pursue higher education while imprisoned. The program will soon expand to all incarcerated individuals.

Offering virtual office hours may not be your first choice, but it can be effective for everyone if approached properly

For a new study, researchers looked at 26 previous studies and a total of 25,090 students and found that differences in reading comprehension could explain 8.4 percent of the variation seen in college grades.