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Download Report: The State of Open Universities in the Commonwealth: A Perspective on Performance, Competition and Innovation

The goal of this report is to critically examine one of the marvels of modern higher education: specialist open and distance learning (ODL) universities. These institutions, such as The Open University (UKOU), Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) and the University of South Africa (UNISA), have pioneered radically innovative instructional and support methods, opening pathways […]

University contemplates 3-year, fully online degree programs

The University of Colorado is asking its faculty and staff to get creative and develop new, fully online degree programs to launch in the fall of 2018. eCampus News

Udacity Breaks Out of the Online Education Box

Sebastian Thrun, Udacity’s chief executive officer, discusses the company’s offline plans with Bloomberg’s Emily Chang on “Bloomberg West.” Bloomberg

Could a liberal arts approach to online learning be more successful?

Bellevue University is using small online learning classes and close oversight by faculty to improve graduation rates and reduce debt defaults. eCampus News

The Price Is Still Right: 15 Sites for Free Digital Textbooks

“Open” has gone mainstream. The world now celebrates Open Education Week. The U.S. Department of Education announced an “Open Education” or #GoOpen initiative and ran its first “@GoOpen Exchange” to get schools and educators committed to the use of open educational resources (OER). Campus Technology

Online degrees could make universities redundant, historian warns

Laurence Brockliss, author of Oxford’s official history, says it must embrace online learning and draw up plans to go private The Guardian

Florida State University System implements new online learning platform

Florida students may soon be better poised for a seamless transition as they transfer courses between public colleges and universities in the state after the State University System entered into an agreement with Canvas, an online learning platform. eCampus News

Berkeley chancellor, Stanford president kick off online-learning summit

Online courses may not have overwhelmed undergraduate education in a disruptive “tsunami,” as once predicted. But teaching and learning technology is “going to change the landscape of everything we do,” UC Berkeley Chancellor Nicholas Dirks told an audience at Stanford University on Friday. UC Berkeley

The Next Rembrandt: Blurring the Lines Between Art, Technology and Emotion

Blurring the boundaries between art and technology, The Next Rembrandt project is intended to fuel the conversation about the relationship between art and algorithms, between data and human design and between technology and emotion. “We wanted to stimulate the discussion on how data and the use of data could lead to innovation,” surmised Ron Augustus, […]

Download Report: Libraries and Learning

Most Americans believe libraries do a decent job of serving the education and learning needs of their communities and their own families. A new survey by Pew Research Center shows that 76% of adults say libraries serve the learning and educational needs of their communities either “very well” (37%) or “pretty well” (39%). Further, 71% […]