With the nation debating models and metrics for the federal government’s rating of America’s more than 4,000 colleges and universities, there’s one crucial area that no one talks…
Recently, Coursera, the online university course provider, began blocking students from Iran, Cuba and Sudan from using its services, The Guardian reports. Coursera, which boasts more than 21.5…
A global telecoms company recently decided to do what many companies are doing: figure out how to turn big data into big profits, Harvard Business Review reports. They…
Mark Huddleston, President of the University of New Hampshire, delivered his annual State of the University on Tuesday, NHPR reports. The University President’s speech began with a list…
When a Harvard professor converted his course on Greek heroes into a MOOC, the enrollment went from a few hundred Ivy League students in Cambridge, Mass., to 31,000…
For many businesses, big data is superfluous. Except, a recently-published paper on the mathematics of big data reveals, when it isn’t, Quartz reports. It turns out there is…
The New York Times published an editorial last month, “Why Other Countries Teach Better,” that compared three countries to the U.S. and raised concerns that poorly trained teachers…
Complete your studies at a traditional university, and you earn a cap-and-gown ceremony with a smiling dean handing you a diploma. Wrap up online instruction, and nothing so…
Coursera has inked a partnership deal with the Carlos Slim Foundation to bring high-quality and affordable online courses to Latin America, Venture Beat reports. The news was announced…
My reading this morning took me to Learning Solutions Magazine, a website I find very valuable with lots of insight around learning technology. Although I read two articles…
Hawaii’s colleges are notably missing from the U.S. News and World Report’s recent rankings of online programs, suggesting that the Aloha State is lagging in one of the…
