If you would like to improve or innovate within higher education, blogs and university video sites should be a source you turn to for ideas, news, and trends. You probably already read journals in your field (where articles are validated, but not very recent) and publications like the Chronicle of Higher Education. For new ideas and nearly real-time news, follow twitter, linkedin, Facebook, and other social media sources. I like to read blogs, because they integrate a lot of social media and traditional publication news sources…plus they tend to be more creative, personal, and fun to read. Many times, the posts are short, summarizing, synthesizing and helpful if you want to innovate in higher education.
Our Method
In 2012, we began looking at higher ed blogs as a key resource. In order to help separate the wheat from the chaff, we evaluated the blogs we came across, creating a list of the best ones. The blogs we found cover a wide range of topics and perspectives, but our methodology stayed the same. To create this list, we analyzed blogs at two different levels.
- Level 1: We generated a list of over 200 higher ed blogs that we found already recommended by other sources. With this list in hand, we reviewed each blog one at a time, noting the ones we would recommend.
- Level 2: Our editors visited the recommended higher ed blogs, assessing them for content quality & quantity, post frequency, comment volume and engagement with the higher ed reader community. They also looked a variety of other factors, including relevancy, helpfulness, insight, design, reputation and more.
Blogs can be a great source for current information, and much of the content is focused on helping you learn and adapt to the future of higher education. Many of the blogs I follow share college and university trends, including tips, tools, techniques, personal experiences, and thoughts for improving how students are educated and how higher education institutions are operated. Give our list a look and let us know in the comments your favorites and if there is a higher ed blog you would like to suggest too.
Here’s the list of top higher education blogs from UniversityWebinars.org.
Higher Ed Blogs for College Professionals
- Higher Ed Mash Up
- ProfHacker
- USA TODAY College
- Wired Campus
- NAFSA: Association of International Educators
- Udacity Blog
- The Student Union
- Changing Higher Education
- Casting Out Nines
- StratEDgy
- The Ubiquitous Librarian
- edCetera
- Next
- Coursera Blog
- On Hiring
- .eduGuru
- Blog High Ed
- EricStoller.com
- GlobalHigherEd
- Hack Education
- Inside Higher Ed
- Student Affairs And Technology
- The Choice
- The Student Affairs Collaborative
- Huffington Post College
- Campus Overload
- College Media Matters
- The College Puzzle
- UBrander
- Will Richardson
- The Open Academic
- UnCollege
- Information Wants To Be Free
- A Millennial Professor’s View of Higher Education
- Mistaken Goal
- mStoner, Inc.
- Serendipity35
- AcademHack
- Graduate/Professional School Marketing
- Montgomery Educational Consulting
- Alumni Futures
- Academic Librarian
- EDU In Review News Blog
- Campus Technology
- Provost Prose
- Campus Grotto
- The Medium is the Message
- Hedda
- Digital Tweed
- ACRLog
- Another Damned Medievalist
- Blackboard Blogs
- MyCollegeCalendar
- Burnt-out Adjunct
- Cheap Scholar
- The Ticker
- Research Centered
- Tenured Radical
- Head Count
- Percolator
- CR80News
- DeansTalk
- Eduwonk
- E-Learning Queen
- Fred Stutzman
- HackCollege
- Happy Schools Blog
- HighEdWebTech
- Higher Ed/
- International Higher Education Consulting
- Minor Details
- Sounding Board
- GradHacker
- RebelPhD
- Higher Ed Watch
- Online EDU Blog
- Open Education
- EducationPR
- Recession Realities in Higher Education
- the Sam Jackson College Experience
- Traveling Ph.D.
- Higher Education Best Practices Blog
- Campus Talk Blog
- UniversityWebinars
- Extra Credit
- Mark Greenfield’s Blog
- University Business
- The Paper Trail
- Absurdist Paradise
- College Admissions Blog
- infOpinions
- Academic Solutions Blog
- Edvisors
- Scholarships.com Blog
- The Center for College Affordability & Productivity
- Tweed
- The Edge of the American West
- Bottom Line
- Lingua Franca
- College Admissions
- collegewebeditor.com
- College Web Guy
- The Collegiate Way
- eduStyle
- facultyled.com
- ed2go Education Trends Blog
- Just Visiting
- The Kept-Up Academic Librarian
- The Little Professor
- University Diaries
- Minding the Campus
- Not Your Average Admissions Blog
- Rate Your Students
- Reassigned Time
- RethinkingHigherEducation
- Rick Osborn’s Continuing Education Blog
- SquaredPeg
- Surviving College Life
- That College Kid
- The Torch
- My Continuing Educ@tion
- Intern Queen
- Bob Johnson’s Blog on Higher Education Marketing