The Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s free course content has reached 100 million people worldwide, and as U.S. campuses experiment with open class material to varying degrees, MIT hopes…
The online classroom poses unique challenges for classroom management and connection with students. Online students might report feelings of loneliness, a lack of connection, and a need for…
Requiring professors to make their syllabi publicly available on the web could draw a backlash from educators who see the document as their intellectual property, while universities and…
The Library of Congress has made available a large chunk of its national archive of more than 3 million music and spoken-word recordings for online public streaming as…
Yale University announced May 10 that it will offer free online access to digital images of millions of objects housed in its museums, archives and libraries, and the…
A Canadian campus has converted to the latest internet protocol, but with just a few weeks until web giants give the new protocol a test run, questions remain…
Because an online college student might want to meet a classmate the old-fashioned way – face to face – Arizona State University (ASU) has a social networking platform…
Hispanics in the U.S. use mobile devices and social media more than any other demographic while colleges and universities adopt both technologies as key parts of course work.
Members of an influential online-learning task force said states should create uniform standards for online colleges and universities, making it easier for institutions to comply with a federal…