MIT brings video game battle to the public
Anyone with a web connection can engage in the marketplace maneuvering, the pressure-packed decision making, and the inevitable price wars that break out among business students at the…
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Students, professors laud $30 textbooks
Freely available open course material could save college students in Washington state $1.2 million this year: The Washington State Board of Community and Technical Colleges introduced one of…
Students stage ‘textbook rebellion’ at University of Maryland
College students are going without required textbooks, doing their best to eke through the semester without shelling out hundreds in their campus bookstores. With inexpensive alternatives sparse, a…
MIT’s goal: Reach 1 billion with open courseware
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…
$2 billion that could change online education
It wasn’t the $12 billion in community college funding that officials hoped for in 2010, but a $2 billion federal grant program unveiled in January could encourage two-year…
Virtual Symposium examines worldwide growth of online access
Distance learning, open courseware, eBooks, wikis, and many other innovative technologies have forever affected education by connecting any topic in any discipline to any learner in any place.…
Open courseware 2.0: The next steps in the OER movement
Putting free courseware online was a first step in reimagining education. So what now? Wiki universities, smart courses, and—maybe—improved learning, reports the New York Times.
Online books let college students earn credit—and cash
Nineteen business majors are trying to sell the idea of free online textbooks to their professors in an internship program that pushes open content technology designed to counter…