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California Governor Jerry Brown vetoed his own idea on Thursday to make the University of California and California State University systems spend $10 million each on education technology. Inside Higher Ed
Who is studying online? What do they value? What is the impact of their online degree? The newest edition of the “Online College Students” report, a joint project of Learning House and Aslanian Market Research, answers these questions and more. The report shares the findings of the second annual survey of 1,500 former, current and […]
The spread of massive open online courses, or MOOCs, is “credit positive” for universities that offer them but “credit negative” for a majority of lesser-known institutions that lack a prominent brand name, according to a report published on Monday by Moody’s Investors Service. Wired Campus Full Article
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — TED Talks, the most popular conference and events website in the world with over 1 billion informational videos viewed, provides academics with increased popular exposure but does nothing to boost citations of their work by peers, new research led by Indiana University has found. Indiana University Full Article
PHILADELPHIA — In a traditional classroom setting, a university or college’s disability services office typically coordinates a disabled student’s accommodation issues. But with the growth of online education, it is now largely the obligation of the instructors themselves to proactively design courses that are equally accessible to all students. Inside Higher Ed Full Article
Farhad Saba, Ph. D. Founder and Editor, Distance-Educator.com In this series of articles, I presented a hierarchical model of distance education consisting of seven interrelated nested systems levels. These systems have been present in most distance education organizations that I observed, or planned and built over the past 30 years. In the previous weeks, I […]
The Brown Institute for Media Innovation, an initiative of Stanford and Columbia universities, has awarded seed funding to students of both schools to develop media technologies that could transform how news content is produced, delivered and consumed. Stanford University Press Release
Digital badge initiatives at colleges and universities across the country are challenging assumptions about learning and assessment. Campus Technology Full Article
Online course provider Udemy has launched a summer grant program to encourage new teachers to join their ranks. The grant will award $5,000 plus 100 percent course revenues for life. The company is also providing an inside peek into its instructors’ earnings, including top earners and average instructor earnings. Campus Technology Full Article
Inquiry-based learning in Science Education is based on the belief that it is crucial to ensure that students deeply understand what they are learning, and not simply repeat contents and information. To this extent, IBSE is not only a way to teach Science effectively, but more importantly it can be a way to teach how […]