Teaching a journalism MOOC: 5 tips and techniques
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have become a hot topic this year in the press. It seems on a daily basis there is some article or blog post…
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Berklee online degrees would cost half of campus study programs
Berklee College of Music announced Wednesday that it will begin offering bachelor’s degrees online in fall 2014 that will cost less than half of what students pay to…
MOOC launched for computing teachers
Designed to support the teaching of computing in schools the massive open online course (MOOC) is now live, Computer Weekly reports. A partnership between exam board OCR, Cambridge…
Online co-op partnership offers green discounts for university
For a college student living on a budget, being a sustainable consumer is not always a top priority, The Diamondback reports. However, a new university partnership with GreenSavings.coop,…
Latin America becoming fertile ground for online university courses
Roosemberth Palacios sports braces on his teeth and a curly mop of hair. At 16, he finds high school boring. So after school, he logs onto his computer…
MOOC bandwagon shows signs of slowing down
After barely more than a year in business, opposite-coast rivals edX and Coursera have become two of the biggest higher-education organizations in the world, with a combined 6…
Canada needs an online education strategy
I’ve been asked several times in the past few months, why I started the Wide World Ed initiative. I started it because I have deeply held personal values…
Why online training can’t beat beer and pizza
Shriro Australia’s Sydney showroom was abuzz with Harvey Norman proprietors and floor staff in late July when the company held a special event to launch the new range,…
‘Video Games and Learning’ pilot MOOC launches
Kurt Squire has enrolled in about a dozen Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), the University of Wisconsin news service reports. “The experience was fun — to essentially be…
Cornell’s first four MOOCs to launch next semester
Any person. Any study. And now – any corner of the globe. Beginning next semester, the university will offer its first four massive open online courses – commonly…