Articles by eCampus News staff and wire reports
OU pushes online material as textbook alternative
Students are saving money on textbooks because of a program that puts more college course material online, according to University of Oklahoma officials. …
MIICs, not MOOCs, at Washington and Lee
You can’t read about higher education these days without coming across multiple references to MOOCs — Massive Open Online Courses, the Times Dispatch reports. …
Probing question: Are MOOCs here to stay?
In higher education, 2013 may be remembered as the year of the MOOC. For those playing catch-up, MOOCs, or Massive Open Online Courses, are college-level classes taught entirely over the…
Latin America’s first MOOC
The São Paulo University (USP) and the portal company Veduca launched last week the first Massive Open Online Course in Latin America, EdSurge reports. …
MOOCs: interesting legal territory ahead
As massive open online courses (MOOCs) gain publicity and popularity, it's time to address the legal concerns affecting this trend in higher education, InformationWeek reports. …
Can we move beyond the MOOC to reclaim open learning?
The mushrooming of university-sponsored Massive Open Online Courses, also known as MOOCs or xMOOCs, over the last year and a half through the growth of the Coursera, Udacity and edx…
Online universities: it’s time for teachers to join the revolution
The past few centuries have witnessed revolutions in virtually every area of our world – health, transport, communications and genomics, to name but a few. But not in education, The…
Professors want to own MOOCs before MOOCs own them
By now, popular sentiment is that MOOCs—massive online open courses—are the Napster of higher education. They're disrupting the industry in a way that makes everything uncertain, except that the education…
Could professors’ resistance derail online-learning movement?
The San Jose State philosophy professors who recently spoke out against the school's embrace of a video version of a social justice class were right to worry about the boom…
University aims to teach future dads more than how-to
Can a college class teach you how to be a good father? The University of Arizona thinks so — and so do hundreds of students who are learning what fatherhood…