Online app reveals true cost of college
A new online app called College Abacus is making it easier for students and their families to get estimates in advance of how much financial aid colleges and…
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Students issue report card on MOOCs
Debates on the pros and cons of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) often overlook how these online sessions fundamentally change the dynamic of learning, Forbes reports. I’ve been…
Never visit a college campus with your parents again thanks to Google
It was a college road trip on steroids: when I was a high school junior, my parents and I visited 12 college campuses in less than two weeks.…
Colleges try to verify online attendance
Colleges are ramping up strategies to ensure that the student who gets the grade for taking an online course is the same person who does the homework and…
NCSU professors give MOOCs a chance, refuse to join dissenting groups
Not everyone is a fan of Massive Open Online Courses, it seems. Even though the availability of free MOOCS is expanding nationwide, 65 faculty, student, teacher and union…
MOOCs: Too much hype, or not enough?
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…
Can MOOCs cure homelessness?
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.…
University of Rochester to spend $50 million on ‘big data’ research
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…
The new distance learning gets up close and personal
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 turns to CSU Northridge for insight on tablets
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…