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Facebook is out to upend the traditional student-teacher relationship. On Tuesday, Facebook and Summit Public Schools, a nonprofit charter school network with headquarters in Silicon Valley, announced that nearly 120 schools planned this fall to introduce a free student-directed learning system developed jointly by the social network and the charter schools. The New York Times
Advanced research and education networks can be a tremendous resource for colleges and universities both large and small. So why doesn’t every school take part? Campus Technology
Join faculty members/instructors from colleges and universities, practitioners, experts, policy-makers, academic decision-makers and technology providers involved in the field of online and distance education from around the world for this bi-annual summit dedicated to online learning and distance education. International Council for Open and Distance Education
Earn credit for what you already know at priorlearning.psu.edu The Pennsylvania State University
New UNESCO-COL publication, “Making Sense of MOOCs: A Guide for Policy Makers in Developing Countries,” is now available. The Guide is designed to raise general awareness amongst policy makers in developing countries as to how Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) might address their concerns and priorities, particularly in terms of access to affordable quality higher […]
Higher education needs to embrace the positives of AI, not just look at the negatives, says Rose Luckin Times Higher Education
Technology has the potential to solve the affordability and access problem in higher education, according to the author of Revolution in Higher Education. Campus Technology
Every year, thousands of complaints flow into the office tasked with investigating disability discrimination for the U.S. Department of Education. Education Week
Academia is used to robust debate. But the trolling that happens online should not be tolerated, writes Elaine Campbell Times Higher Education
This paper, the result of panel discussions and working groups convened by the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science, examines several key issues in distance education with respect to the profound impact that they will have on training and education in geographic information science in the U.S., and on the overall effectiveness of colleges and […]