It seems to me that efforts at outcome assessment in higher education are deficient because of a failure to understand what exactly it is that is being or should be assessed. Certainly, the object of such assessment should ...

Publication is at the heart of scholarship. Traditionally, print media has been perhaps the most important vehicle for communicating research results and scholarly thought. Experimentation in publishing electronic journals ...

The Interaction Summit provided a forum for leading researchers to discuss the literature on online learner interaction. These expert panelists presented key points about the value of such interaction in higher education ...

In the last few years, higher education has suffered an embarrassing series of well-publicized incidents of overt censorship by members of the academic community. The instances are geographically widespread and occur in a ...

From Berkeley to Middlebury, as well as a few places in between, higher education has recently experienced a rash of speech disruptions and disinvitations. While these events generate widespread media attention, they do ...