In Focus

With a chorus of influential voices calling for colleges to enroll and successfully graduate more students, data analytics is center stage.

Deluge of information can be distracting, but can Twitter be used to focus students' attention?

At Sloan-C conference, a Connecticut professor explains how he's using wikis to teach less cosmopolitan students the basics of 21st-century technology and cultural exchange.

Blackboard may be king in the nonprofit sector for online learning platforms, but in the growing for-profit sector, it is still playing second fiddle.

U. of Phoenix plans to 'hyper-personalize' learning experience for all 400,000 of its students by building an online learning platform that thinks.

Blackboard's competitors gain, budget cuts continue, mobile apps and lecture capture look likely to grow, annual technology survey finds.

Technology companies promote convenient versions of services, but some professors still worry that all that convenience comes at the expense of attention in class.

Lecture capture is hot, with publishers building ties to the field and debate roiling over the best business model.

Purdue U. creates a learning-management system that meets students on their turf and puts them in charge.

Some students at Johns Hopkins are not happy about a new fee for classroom clickers.