Internet meeting spurs controversy
Internet freedom could be at stake at a secretive meeting of governments that begins Monday in Dubai. PCWorld Full Article
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PBS Kids Survey Finds top Holiday Gifts are Downloadable this Season
More Parents Plan to Give Downloadable Apps and Games; PBS KIDS Offers Tips to Help Parents Choose the Best Apps for Kids PBS Press Release
Distance Education and Learning Futures Alliance (DELFA)
DELFA aims to build a network of leaders at the forefront of new and emerging models of online, blended and distance education. International Council for Open and Distance Education Press Release
Wielding ‘Power Users’
Nils De Jonghe is a busy student these days. Since the spring he has registered for 32 courses, the equivalent of a typical bachelor’s degree, and he aims to have completed nearly all of them by the end of next summer. And he is not receiving formal credit for any of them. Inside Higher Ed […]
Blackboard and Pearson Announce International Content Integration Partnership
Market-leading LMS and World’s Leading Learning Companies Bring Seamless Transition Between Pearson’s MyLab & Mastering and Blackboard Learn to Global Markets Nov 29, 2012 WASHINGTON, Nov. 29, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — Blackboard Inc. and Pearson have expanded the availability of an integration for Pearson’s leading learning solution – MyLab & Mastering – with Blackboard Learn™, the market-leading […]
Download the Report: CHEA Issues CHEA Initiative Final Report
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 29, 2012 Contact: Timothy Willard (202) 955-6126 Email: Willard@chea.org (Washington, DC) –The Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA) has issued the CHEA Initiative Final Report, drawn from the CHEA Initiative’s four-year national conversation on the future of accreditation. “The CHEA Initiative was launched in 2008, commencing an unprecedented national discussion of […]
The Education Giant Adapts
Pearson is the world’s largest book publisher. Now it wants to be a one-stop shop for digital education. MIT Technology Review Full Article
Factors Affecting the Future of Higher Education: Increased Demand
By Dr. Farhad (Fred) Saba Founder and Editor, Distance-Educator.com Education at all levels and institutions, including the training functions of most corporations and government agencies, are facing unprecedented challenges in huge proportions as the 21st century unfolds. At the turn of the century, Houghton, and Sheehan (2000) posited and major international organizations, such as World […]
Sanjay Sarma appointed as MIT’s first director of digital learning
Sanjay Sarma, the Fred Fort Flowers and Daniel Fort Flowers Professor of Mechanical Engineering, has been appointed MIT’s first director of digital learning, effective immediately. President L. Rafael Reif announced Sarma’s appointment today in an e-mail message to the MIT community. MIT Press Release
CHEA and AAUP Release Advisory Statement on Accreditation and Academic Freedom
(Washington, DC) –The Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA) and the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) have released an advisory statement on Accreditation and Academic Freedom. The Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA) Press Release