‘We don’t know what drives these learners’
Texas universities increasingly are opening up classes to anyone with an email address and an internet connection, even as they struggle to measure learner success and gain insight…
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Better data means better education, online and in the lecture hall
Even critics of massive open online courses, better known as MOOCs, shouldn’t deny the value of the student data those courses generate. Teachers can only gather insights into…
Getting a gilt-edged biz education for less? MOOCs may make it possible
After nearly two decades working for the University of Chicago's executive MBA program, associate dean Patty Keegan thought she had heard just about every question a prospective student…
There is no demand for higher education
The champions of massive open online courses, or MOOCs, and other digitally mediated mass-produced education often speak of the “necessity” of transitioning to this model because of all…
MOOC to you, too
I'm doing something right now that I've never done before, and I'm doing it twice: I'm taking free online classes that instructors are using to augment classes that…
How big data lets us see a little further into the unknown
It is Monday, and it is raining again in the south of France. But it was sunny yesterday. And it was also dry last Wednesday, although it then…
Online courses trim billions in personnel training
Massive online open courses (MOOCs) are supposed to change the face of higher education. Early success, though, has been easier to find among corporations, CNBC reports. A University…
How online tuition will upend the economics of higher education
In America, bowing to the inevitable, universities have joined various startups in the rush to provide stand-alone instruction online, through massive open online courses, or MOOCs. Though much…
Chancellor: ‘Open SUNY’ online learning will redefine access to degrees
Chancellor Nancy Zimpher doubled down on SUNY's commitment to online learning in her annual "State of the University" address Tuesday, Record Online reports. While acknowledging online learning is…
Massive open online forces
Universities have not changed much since students first gathered in Oxford and Bologna in the 11th century, The Economist reports. Teaching has been constrained by technology. Until recently…