College-educated workers are taking jobs that don’t require degrees
In a packed pub in midtown Manhattan, Ryan Flagherty is surrounded on three sides by people clamoring for his attention, the Los Angeles Times reports.
Month: September 2013
College applications: What are schools really selling?
Foreign policy brings us the expression “leading from behind” and the phrase might also describe the thing that is parenthood – especially during the kids’ college search, the…
Ex-Dodgers owner gives college $100 million
A former owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers is giving Georgetown University $100 million to found a school of public policy that will bear his family name, the…
Delaware seeks to steer the poor to top colleges
Delaware announced on Wednesday a new effort to encourage high-achieving low-income students to apply to top colleges, saying it would send application fee waivers and other information to…
Union concerned with New York MOOC expansion
A plan to enroll 100,000 New York college students in massive open online courses (MOOCs) without increasing faculty has drawn criticism from a union leader who described MOOCs…
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Has Coursera solved the catch-22 of for-credit MOOCs?
It’s the catch-22 of massive open online courses (MOOCs). Students want college credit for MOOCs, which would raise the price tag of the often-free courses. At the same…
UK launches biggest online university project
The UK has reportedly launched its biggest online university project with more than 20 colleges offering free courses, The Times of India reports. The project, called FutureLearn, is…
Online courses don’t live up to hype
Massive open online courses were supposed to revolutionize — and democratize — higher education, Politico reports. But two years since their debut, the initial buzz seems like nothing…
Much aMOOC about nothing?
I am fascinated by predictions on the way that technology, lately in the form of massive open online courses (MOOCs), will change higher education, The Huffington Post reports.…