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Last year on this blog, I asked a few questions (eLearning, Africa and … China?) as a result of my participation in a related event in Dar Es Salaam where lots of my African colleagues were ‘talking about China’, but where few Chinese (researchers, practitioners, firms, officials) were present. The World Bank Blog Post
Students using the agreement could earn their bachelor’s degree in three years at an estimated total cost of $17,000 in tuition and fees Western Governors University Press Release
Online education experts say Education Department officials still could push for ‘state authorization’ rules eCampus News Full Article
Vision K-20 Survey, which tracks ed-tech implementation over time, shows educators’ ‘ideal’ goals for the first time eSchool News Full Article
Baltimore, MD – StraighterLine (www.straighterline.com) announced today that Jack in the Box Inc., which operates and franchises one of the nation’s largest hamburger chains, is adding StraighterLine’s extremely flexible self-paced online college courses as an option for their employees. StraighterLine Press Release
Several universities have recently tried a new model for delivering textbooks in hopes of saving students money: requiring purchase of e-textbooks and charging students a materials fee to cover the costs. A recent report on some of those pilot projects, however, shows that many students find the e-textbooks “clumsy” and prefer print. Wired Campus Full […]
The largest public university system in the United States is finally realizing a vision of a centralized online hub — but is doing so in a relatively contained way, at least at the start. Inside Higher Ed Full Article
Mark David Milliron is Chancellor, Western Governors University (WGU) Texas. In reading the recently published EDUCAUSE e-book Game Changers: Education and Information Technologies, I came to the realization that many of us in higher education are “preaching to the choir.” In addition to talking to each other about innovation and change and transformative educational technologies […]
Chances are that when a Stanford scholar is being interviewed by CNN, ABC, NBC or CBS, he or she is actually sitting comfortably in a Stanford studio, even as images are being broadcast to millions of people worldwide. Stanford University Press Release