Not Rushing Into MOOCs
News of universities partnering with massive open online course providers has become commonplace, which is why Yale University stands out for what it’s not doing: rushing. Inside Higher Ed Full Article
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Digital Pink Slips
One of the big draws of online education is that it can be easily untethered from the traditional semester schedule, with online universities often offering new classes 52 weeks a year. But while they are convenient for students, and profitable for institutions, rolling starts for classes can mean flimsy job security for the adjunct professors […]
Mainstreaming MOOCs
As the old saying goes, “If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em.” This week, public universities announced two different initiatives designed to use free, online, open-enrollment courses to drive students to more traditional credit pathways. The move attempts to position free, online courses as a complement to the traditional model of higher education, rather than […]
In massive online course offered by Stanford, teams unleash diverse approaches to creativity
Innovative ‘Crash Course’ inspires students around the world to think in new ways. Stanford University Press Release
Digital Learning, for the Learners
It was probably inevitable that any group of people who sought, however tentatively, to define “the rights, responsibilities, and possibilities for education in the globally connected world of the present and beyond” would find themselves accused of excluding important parties, of being “top-down,” and of hubris. Inside Higher Ed Full Article
Cutting Out the Middlemen: Do Professors Need Universities Anymore?
In the business of higher education, universities are standing in the way of professors and profits. EDTECH Focus on Higher Education Full Article
As California Goes?
California is the Fertile Crescent for massive open online course providers, at least the for-profit ones. The state is also shaping up as a testing ground for phase two of the MOOC experiment, which includes fees and a path to college credit, and where public colleges try to use material from MOOCs to help meet […]
In Depth Analysis: Analyzing Analytics; A Systems Approach
Farhad (Fred) Saba, Ph. D. Founder and Editor, Distance-Educator.com In recent years administrators are paying increasing attention to studying the discrete components of colleges and universities through collecting and analyzing massive amount of data on student behavior, number of courses offered and taken, time students spend in each course, completion rates, etc. While analytics sheds […]
Factors Affecting the Future of Higher Education: Time-to-Degree
Farhad (Fred) Saba, Ph. D. Founder and Editor, Distance-Educator.co The dramatic increase in popularity of higher education in the past 30 years has resulted in a major change in the profile of students attending colleges and universities. No longer the majority of the student body consists of full-time in-residence young men and women between 18 […]
UPCEA Partners with ACE to Evaluate MOOCs through Gates Foundation Grant
UPCEA has partnered with the American Council on Education (ACE) to examine the academic potential of massive open online courses (MOOCs). UPCEA will collaborate with ACE to evaluate how MOOCs could integrate into traditional degree completion programs. ACE, through funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, will work with UPCEA and Coursera, a leading […]