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…
Since their inception, there has been a flurry of debate around the legitimacy and efficacy of MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses). Widely recognized as game-changing in education, they…
Although Moocs like to speak of creating their own communities, living on a virtual campus is not the same as having to turn up to lectures and coming…
Deep within our cultural history is a faith in the power of technology to cure social problems, Truthdig reports. Many of our Utopian visions—from nineteenth century socialist tracts…
With the success of its free open online course system, called MITx, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology finds itself sitting on a wealth of student data that researchers…
Drake University’s campus security program is receiving a new update to help ensure student safety, The Times-Delphic reports. The R.A.V.E. program, which currently runs Bulldog Alerts and the…
Coursera, the popular online education platform founded by two Stanford University computer science professors, recently blocked access to users in ... Read more
