A community college system in Arizona is now under fire due to a data breach affecting 2.4 million people, according to a new lawsuit. Administrators from Maricopa County Community College District are accused of improperly handling a system hack dating back to January 2011, which lead to a bigger security breach in April 2013. According […]

A story from American Public Media’s Marketplace highlights the history of technology in the classroom, dating back to 1922 when Thomas Edison claimed that motion picture would be the future of education. The article covers several technological revolutions from the 21st century from radio, television and computers, emphasizing that each wave of modernization rarely lived […]

Newly released data from HarvardX and MITx, the MOOC divisions of Harvard and MIT, has shed light on interesting trends emerging from the world of MOOCs. With nearly 2 million combined students, data shows that the majority of those students are male and already have college degrees. MITx has the greatest disparity between male and […]

According to a recent Babson Survey Research Group report, the number of students taking at least one online course has now reached 7.1 million. The proportion of higher education students in this category has reached an all-time high of 33.5 percent taking at least one online course. “Grade Change – Tracking Online Education in the […]

The Workforce Credentials Coalition, a newly formed body of 20 states, just held its first meeting at the New America Foundation on April 7. The group, led by teams in California and North Carolina, hopes to develop a framework of joint standards around data sharing between industry and professional certifying bodies. Leading the charge is […]

Education technology investment has taken 2014 by storm, already accumulating over $550 million dollars in the fiscal first quarter. According to CB Insights, a large venture capital database that tracks promising private companies, this accounts for nearly 45 percent of the sector’s total funding in all of 2013. Investors spent $559 million dollars in 103 […]

Distance education enrollment continues to grow with each passing year. Tuition costs are also continuing to rise. A recent report by Hanover Research, based on analysis of Peterson’s Distance Learning Database, revealed that the average cost of an online bachelor’s degree is $43,477. The report looked at 699 non-profit institutions that offer online degree programs […]

Last month the Obama administration released a voluntary best practices framework to address the growing concerns surrounding increased cyber attacks on government, corporate and research institution networks. Last summer, Stanford University suffered a security breach, allegedly at the hands of a hacker by the moniker  “Ag3nt47.” The mission of Executive Order 13636 is to “enhance […]

The GED has always been a safe haven for those that never finished high school for one reason another. Created over 70 years ago, the General Educational Development test is now facing some design and policy overhauls. The new tests will be aligned to match the Common Core State Standards that are being introduced to […]

The start of each new semester at colleges and universities around the United States means the federal government continually faces a barrage of financial aid scams. The rise in rip-offs may continue as the Obama administration outlined a plan to raise the amount of financial aid available to students in a August 2013 plan. The […]