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San Diego Global Knowledge University Signs Agreement with China Education Association for International Exchange

Press Release June 3, 2013 San Diego Global Knowledge University (SDGKU) has just signed a historic collaboration agreement with the China Education Association for International Exchange (CEAIE). SDGKU (www.sdgku.com) is an online / networked university dedicated to global competency education and training using the Internet and latest communication technologies. Through its video-based instructional content […]

Retention and Intention in Massive Open Online Courses: In Depth

Retention in MOOCs should be considered in the context of learner intent, especially given the varied backgrounds and motivations of students who choose to enroll. When viewed in the appropriate context, the apparently low retention in MOOCs is often reasonable. EDUCAUSE Review Full Article

California Bill Allowing Credit for MOOCs Passes Senate

California state senators voted unanimously last Thursday to pass Senate Bill 520 (SB 520), despite opposition from faculty at California Community Colleges, California State University, and University of California. The bill establishes incentive grant programs for the state’s public universities and colleges to develop online courses on massive open online course (MOOC) platforms, such as […]

Obama Promises to Have High-Speed Internet in Most Schools in 5 Years

MOORESVILLE, N.C. — President Obama visited an innovative middle school in central North Carolina on Thursday to demonstrate the Internet-based education programs that he is proposing to make available nationwide. The New York Times Full Article

As Course-Management Market Gets More Competitive, Instructure Raises $30-Million in Funds

Instructure, a company that sells course-management software, announced on Wednesday that it had won $30-million in venture-capital funds, and some observers said the company was gaining ground on Blackboard, which has long dominated the market for learning-management systems, or LMS. Wired Campus Full Article

Pedagogical quality enrichment in OER based courseware: Guiding principles

This is a critical phase for Open Educational Resources (OER) movement: on one side the number of OER is increasing rapidly, and on other side debates about quality of OER-based courseware are heating up. These debates emanate from the fact that OER-based courseware are supposed to help users to follow a logical learning path and […]

Online college course experiment reveals hidden costs

About two weeks into San Jose State’s online education experiment at an Oakland charter school, it became clear that something was wrong. Some of the students in the college’s for-credit math courses weren’t even logging on. eCampus News Full Article

Open education resources and mobile technology to narrow the learning divide

As the world becomes more digitized, there will be an increasing need to make available learning resources in electronic format for access by information and communication technologies. The question education will face is whether these learning resources will be available for learners to access at no cost or affordable cost so that there will be […]

Moving to open educational resources at Athabasca University: A case study

Since the birth of the World Wide Web, educators have been exchanging ideas and sharing resources online. They are all aware of the turmoil in higher education created by freely available content, including some hopeful developments charted in this issue. Interest has grown steadily over the past decade in making a university-level education openly available […]

Shared Photonarratives in an Online Master’s Course: Reflection, Context and Community

Distance education has potential to reach teachers from diverse areas, but the challenges of building community and promoting reflection in these settings can be considerable. In this study, photonarratives were used as an assignment in a distance education course to promote reflection on science teaching. Twenty science teachers (half from rural areas) produced photonarratives that […]

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