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…
Massive open online courses have unveiled a gold mine of data to University faculty and staff, The Daily Illini reports. Typically, instructors evaluating the effectiveness of their teaching…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
