Half of parents: children will take online courses
Transferring at least some of the college experience may now be par for the educational course, as more than half of parents who responded to a recent survey…
Month: August 2013
Udacity CEO says MOOC ‘magic formula’ emerging
After weathering a round of negative publicity, Udacity CEO Sebastian Thrun believes vindication is at hand, InformationWeek reports.
How social media has transformed college football recruiting
Clifton Garrett is one of the nation's top prospects in the 2014 recruiting class, Bleacher Report reports.
The best online college programs named for 2013-2014
BestOnlineColleges.org, a leading resource for online education, has released their lists recognizing the best online programs, Newsday reports.
N.C. State looking at MOOC options
Massive open online courses, or MOOCs, are educational platforms with a large number of students and interactive programs, Technician Online reports.
Google Play, Boundless increase eTextbook options
Textbook prices over the past decade have increased by more than 80 percent, and some students and faculty have begun turning to alternate, cheaper online means for their…
Open-source textbooks projected to save students $3.7M
The open-source online textbook publisher OpenStax College, which claims it could save students upwards of $750 million in textbook costs over the next five years, announced this week…
Degreed wants to make online courses count
Over the past few years, millions around the world have signed up for free online courses to date, CNN Money ... Read more
Imagining an age of MOOCs
The MOOC era has dawned with a rush of utopian and dystopian bombast, much of which is bound to be wrong, Berfrois reports.
Coursera billed as the Amazon of education
Investors in Coursera, the world’s largest massive open online course (MOOC) provider are confident the company will arrive at a sustainable business model, says its co-founder, Daphne Koller.…