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…
Many high school seniors are finding it difficult to send in their college applications early this year because an online application portal called the Common Application has been…
Earlier this month, I went to an eLearning conference in Saudi Arabia and again, the topic of Massive Open Online Courses, or MOOCs, came up. But, they were…
It seems that a start-up founder's decision to offer a homeless man a laptop and coding classes, instead of $100 cash, has paid off, The Huffington Post reports.…
The University of Rochester is committing $50 million, in addition to more than $50 million it has spent in recent years, to expand its work in the burgeoning…
Jennifer Feschuk already had one degree when she started at Royal Roads University in Victoria last year, but she still had some pre-school jitters before her classes began,…
Fresno State Associated Students, Inc. President Moses Menchaca said the push for making digital tablets a part of the university’s curricula – an effort introduced by university President…
A year ago, Google Chairman Eric Schmidt compared the state of massive open online courses (or MOOCs, a sector that Coursera, EdX and Udacity dominate) to the first…
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation recently gave the University of Texas at Arlington a $97,200 grant to host a conference where educators will discuss the effectiveness of…
Lots of up-and-coming technologies have been receiving the media’s attention this year. Wearable tech promises emails and search capabilities with a glance at our watch or just by…
Coded into the DNA of MOOCs (the unwieldy acronym for Massive Open Online Courses) is a profound sense of social, educational, and economic justice. MOOCs are courses from…
