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It’s a higher-education puzzle: Students are flocking to Western Governors University, driving growth of 30 to 40 percent each year. You might expect that competitors would be clamoring to copy the nonprofit online institution’s model, which focuses on whether students can show “competencies” rather than on counting how much time they’ve spent in class.Wired CampusFull […]
Budgeting is not just something that interests the Chancellor as The Open University has discovered – its course in managing personal finance is pulling in higher numbers each time as tutors find more and more people want to get a handle on their money. Take up of places on You & Your Money: Personal Finance […]
Delivered online through the World Campus, this program will enable registered nurses to manage electronic health records and data for the benefit of patients. UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — As hospitals and health organizations move from paper to electronic health records, a new profession is emerging. Nursing informatics combines nursing, computer and information sciences for managing […]
For years, colleges looking for course-management software considered a choice between Blackboard’s dominant commercial product or an open-source alternative such as Moodle or Sakai. Now Blackboard essentially owns the open-source alternatives as well.Wired CampusFull Article
Effective Online Teaching & Training is a blog written by Dr. Marina Kostina. Dr. Kostina’s blog is e to “help you transcend the distance by creating powerful online programs and products that maintain personal connections while allowing you to help more people at the same time, and substantially grow and leverage your business.” I have […]
New options for online tutoring and speech therapy are among the latest eLearning solutions introduced during recent ed-tech trade shows.eSchool NewsFull Article
Lasell College’s new five-year strategic plan contains some typical goals for a small, private college: hire new faculty, renovate old buildings, improve advising and student support, and identify signature programs. Inside Higher EdFull Article
Rasmussen College is a relatively small fish that prefers small ponds. That may be why the for-profit chain is sitting pretty compared to many of its higher-profile peers.Inside Higher EdFull Article
The latest buzzword in higher education is “completion.” It combines the idea of enrollment growth with what we used to call “retention”—that is, getting more students into college and then keeping them there long enough to graduate or (in the case of community-college students) transfer successfully to four-year institutions.Chronicle of Higher EducationFull Article
The Moodle Research Conference will become a major event for academics, researchers, experts and practitioners – sharing experiences, research achievements and innovative developments with Moodle. It is a unique opportunity to participate in an event dedicated to research and development (R&D) on learning and teaching carried out with Moodle. The conference will provide opportunities for […]