How online class about online learning failed miserably
In the you-can’t-make-up-this-stuff category, here’s an amusing piece about the failure of a MOOC (massive open online course) that was designed to teach more than 40,000 students the…
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Report: Credit-hour model outdated, inefficient
Colleges and universities are holding back a competency-based credit hour system in higher education, even as the federal government has signaled support for the nontraditional credit-earning model, according…
17 more top universities offer free cyber courses
Seventeen more leading universities in the U.S. and abroad will start offering free online courses through the online education platform Coursera, the company said Sept. 19.
New distance learning agreement draft forthcoming
Drafters of an interstate agreement on distance learning in higher education are entering the final stages of creating a model agreement that would make it much easier for…
The role of smartpens in the flipped classroom
When I decided to flip my classroom last year, I was faced with the challenge of engaging both my already highly-motivated students, and those who were slightly less…
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…
Tech experts, educators see massive online learning shift by 2020
Higher education’s economics are unsustainable and vulnerable to technologies that could make college campuses the hub of the privileged few, according to a vast collection of opinions from…
Free online courses for college credit? Sort of
The University of Washington (UW), unlike the 11 other universities that pledged this month to host classes in Coursera's Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) platform, will offer credit…
Top campuses jump into the free online course game
A dozen of the country's top universities will make courses available for free on the open online class site Coursera by the beginning of 2013. The announcement was…
Popular video forecasts the end of traditional higher education
In Bill Sams’ future, only the children of the ultra-wealthy will attend on-campus college courses, the student loan industry will collapse, and Google will build an omniscient online…