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…
Read any article about online higher education and I guarantee you will come across the much-touted ‘MOOCs’– massive open online courses – as well as references to, perhaps,…
During an interview at the Ethernet Innovation Summit in Mountain View, California, Ethernet inventor Robert Metcalfe was asked what surprises were on the horizon due to the ever…
If your company is already well established and has smart management, it is likely that it will become a hybrid in the next ten years, blending its legacy…
Coursera is a for-profit company that has joined with top universities to deliver free online courses. The “free” part sounds great until we realize the real intent of…
The future will be grim if you run one of the 4,100 colleges or universities in the United States and are unwilling to embrace dramatic change, The Washington…
Once a technology exists, there is no going back. MOOCs are here, and schools want to avoid the embarrassment of dusty educational formats, The Society Pages reports.
Last summer, when I was creating a course on critical thinking (tied to the 2012 Presidential election), I did segments on Media Literacy and Information Literacy, which ended…
There is no denying the gaudy statistics surrounding Coursera's rapid ascent to be the world's leading MOOC platform little more than a year since opening its virtual doors,…