Why online classes won’t replace the classroom
When Stanford president John Hennessey told the New Yorker in April 2012, "There's a tsunami coming," he wasn't forecasting the next undersea earthquake, The Fiscal Times reports.
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Online classes can be enlightening, edifying, and engaging — but they’re not college
The future of higher education online is, at present, clear as mud, The Verge reports.
Students rush to web classes, but profits may be much later
In August, four months after Daphne Koller and Andrew Ng started the online education company Coursera, its free college courses had drawn in a million users, a faster…
Unpopular federal rules still might have life
Online education policy analysts say a set of federal regulations aimed at web-based college programs, struck down by a U.S. Court of Appeals, could re-emerge in Congress’s debate…
USC: 4-year degrees online?
Students at the University of South Carolina's two-year regional campuses would be able to get a bachelor's degree through online coursework under a plan the university is developing.
Several Texas colleges are using private recruiters for online classes
Several Texas public universities have turned to private companies to help enroll thousands more students -- not for classes on campus, but online.
Online education ‘convert’ honored for excellence in distance ed
Ruth Schafer thought she would miss the look of understanding register on a student’s face during her move from the traditional to the online classroom. But after being…
New service helps students pinpoint search for open online courses
Sifting through archives of open online course material could soon become easier. A new public beta version of a web-based college course library aims to help students find…
Online college for union members in the works
The National Labor College will make about 20 online courses available for the AFL-CIO's 11.5 million members next fall in an effort to help workers adapt to a…
Has Google developed the next wave of online education?
Combining text, audio, and video chat with features like drag-and-drop documents and interactive polls, Google Wave is a free web program that could add unprecedented depth to student…