Harvard Business School Online, which offers 13 courses and has eight new ones under development, Crowley said, presents activities every three to five minutes to drive student…

Crowley said one of the most important steps in online-course design is to put students at the center of every decision. She pointed to boring classroom lectures…

In June, the University of California, San Francisco, paid out $1.1 million to its attackers, one of the largest ransomware sums on record in the public sector.…

The University of Utah announced in August that they’d agreed to pay their cyberattackers $457,000 not to release stolen data. The stolen data, they said, represented only…

Countless universities around the world were affected by a cyberattack against the digital service provider Blackbaud earlier this year. Attackers stole personal data from the company and…

Cyberattacks have continued into the fall, forcing some K-12 administrators to delay reopening classes. Hartford Public Schools in Connecticut reported earlier this month that ransomware had forced…

NetWalker continued its attacks against higher education when two more colleges were revealed in June to have been victims of the ransomware. Its operators claimed to have stolen files…

This summer, Michigan State officials revealed a second security slip-up, this time a failure to secure the university’s online shop. Anyone who used the shop to buy…

In May, Michigan State University became the victim of a new trend in ransomware when it was infected by the NetWalker strain of malware. Instead of merely…

In February, it was discovered that Gadsden Independent School District in Las Cruces, New Mexico, had been forced to take systems offline after discovering a ransomware attack.…