NovoEd to offer first team-based Spanish-language MOOC
A recent study of one MOOC found that students from 194 countries participated in the course and 16 percent of the students spoke Spanish. Yet, the vast majority…
Month: June 2013
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…
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…
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…
Top 10 reasons for low MOOC completion rates
Massive open online course (MOOC) completion rates hover around 7 percent worldwide, and beyond stringing criticism from MOOC skeptics in higher education, there’s not much documentation for why…
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…
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…
Tegile Launches “Don’t Overpay for Storage” Promotion
Tegile Launches “Don’t Overpay for Storage” Promotion to Protect University IT Budgets Company Donating $2,500 to College Scholarship Funds for ... Read more
AACRAO International Education Services (IES) Names Parchment its Select Partner for Credential Exchange
WASHINGTON, DC and SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.— (June 13, 2013)—AACRAO International Education Services (IES), and Parchment, the leader in eTranscript exchange with ... Read more
New center allows researchers to ‘stand inside’ Big Data
At the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, students could be attempting a complicated medical procedure. Or they could be taking a tour of a building they are…