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Purdue University today joined the group of universities that have recently announced plans to experiment with online courses aimed at a global audience. The new effort, called PurdueHUB-U, will serve up modular online courses with video lectures, interactive visualizations, and tools for students to interact with their peers and the professor. The project’s leaders hope […]
IS online education the next big thing or will it remain a distant entity awaiting its large-scale acceptance in the higher education landscape of Saudi Arabia? The image of Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah launching the first phase of the university and higher education city projects on an iPad in a ceremony […]
The Education Week Spotlight on Implementing Online Learning is a collection of articles hand-picked by our editors including: Identifying promising models for mixing online learning and face-to-face instruction Challenges in e-learning Building partnerships to increase virtual learning collaboration among districts Teaching a “flip model” of instruction with online lectures as homework Using online learning to […]
By: Philip Price, MA Educational Technology, MA Library Science The ability to find, evaluate and use information, to retrieve something that addresses an informational need, sounds deceptively easy. One simply ‘googles’ a term and is presented with. … 1,526,766 ‘relevant’ items to look at. Or you access Wikipedia and the combined knowledge, or bias, […]
Dr. Saba: Dr. Hezel, How did you become interested in research and planning for education and technology institutions? Dr. Hezel: Early in my career I felt I could be instrumental in social change via media, so I studied mass communication and became a public television producer for a number of years. Then […]
The Saylor Foundation has been building an online catalog of free, self-paced college courses since 2010. But students who completed those courses could not typically earn credit toward a degree, since the nonprofit group is not an accredited institution. Saylor’s new partnership with the online course-provider StraighterLine seeks to change that, giving students an inexpensive […]
Fourteen years after we first published ‘Teaching Zack to Think,’ here’s a new three-part framework for making sure students are internet savvy If you follow the dictate that we teach what we test, it’s understandable why schools haven’t spent more time preparing students to be web literate since NCLB was passed. In 1998, a 15-year-old […]
Open-source textbooks, long considered a promising way to cut costs but still not widely used, could become more readily available and easily vetted as a University of Minnesota project expands. Inside Higher Ed Full Story
When Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology sent ripples through the higher education world last week by announcinge dX, a joint platform for massive online versions of their courses, many observers took it as a boon for access. And indeed, edX — and other massive open online course (MOOC) projects, such as Coursera […]
If you are just considering teaching online or if you already teach online but feel stressed out and overwhelmed- this book will help you become successful in this environment. The book can help to improve your online interactions, even if you’re not a teacher. Who knows, one day you might have to teach online? Full […]