The world in which education operates is changing dramatically and educators and accreditors will need to change too, Diana Oblinger, president and CEO of Educause, said Wednesday at…
In a continued effort to improve online education at the University of California, UC officials announced a series of new initiatives to expand online course offerings last week.…
The University of California, Davis, and Amazon are piloting a first-of-its kind online program that complements UC Davis’ retail operations and supports student programs, services and a new…
Although many open-enrollment courses face high dropout rates, UT professors hope memory-management software that checks retention rates and interacts with students will make a new online class more…
Brandeis Profs. Marc Brettler (NEJS) and Ellen Wright (PSYC) embraced an online course format this semester, each teaching one class through Semester Online, The Justice reports. This marked…
Washington, D.C. – After nearly two decades of operating as an experiment in competency-based learning, the accredited online university Western Governors University says it is now a “proof…
Online course participants are more likely to browse lesson material than stick around to earn a completion certificate, according to a report examining enrollment and usage data from…
Software giant Microsoft has partnered with Regenesys Business School to offer 1,000 business qualification scholarships, which will be facilitated through e-learning, IT Web reports. The initiative expands on…
The man who declared some of his own company’s massive open online courses (MOOCs) as “lousy” products is continuing to distance the experimental online classes from the traditional…
In today’s world, businesses are grappling with the need to equip their employees with state-of-the art technology—and the skills necessary to deal with the continuous information overload employees…