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Free Massive Open Online Courseware – MOOC – is less than a year old but it is already clear this will be the game changer in higher education worldwide. Right now it is reverberating through the world’s universities like a tectonic shock. University World News Full Article
Coursera, an upstart company working with selective universities to offer free online courses, announced this week that it had reached one million registered students. A rival company, Udacity, which also offers what have become known as Massive Open Online Courses, or MOOC’s, says it has more than 739,000 students. Wired Campus Full Article
Massively Open Online Courses have slowly garnered attention. Called MOOCs, these courses are offered to anyone at no charge. Since they began on college campuses in 2008, large numbers of people have been taking these courses. Converge Magazine Full Article
Two students who will make their first visit to Penn State to pick up diplomas in energy and sustainability policy also will be the first graduates of this online degree The Pennsylvania State University Press Release
The Online Pecking Order ‘Conventional’ online universities consider strategic response to MOOCs Inside Higher Ed Full Article
More data-intensive computing, many-to-many collaborations, and high-bandwidth consuming new media are becoming signposts of the way we work, now and in the future, at every type of higher education institution. Greater connectedness for organizations and individuals alike makes the bold distinctions and segregation between types of institutions and students a thing of the past and […]
A U.S. Senate committee released an unflattering report on the for-profit college sector on Sunday, concluding a two-year investigation led by Sen. Tom Harkin, an Iowa Democrat. While the report is ambitious in scope, and scathingly critical on many points, it appears unlikely to lead to a substantial legislative crackdown on the industry — at […]
SALT LAKE CITY — Western Governors University (WGU), www.wgu.edu, is leading the way in producing K-12 math and science educators, according to a recent study conducted by education research and consulting group Eduventures. The study, which used data collected by the U.S. Department of Education, found that in 2011, WGU was the nation’s largest provider […]
REDMOND, Wash. — July 26, 2012 — Beginning with the class of 2016, Seton Hall University will provide incoming freshmen with Windows 8 to help create a new and dynamic learning environment and better prepare students to enter the workforce after graduation. The university also made the decision to standardize on Windows to help reduce […]
Liberty University’s net assets have sustained a fivefold increase — from $150 million to $860 million — over the past six years, driven by the rapid expansion of its online programs. While colleges across the country have struggled to make ends meet during the economic downturn, Liberty’s financial picture has grown stronger by the year, […]