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In his inauguration address in September 2005, then-University of Illinois President B. Joseph White first introduced the concept of a fourth, virtual campus to the university community. Could the university create something that would combine the academic quality of the University of Illinois with the user-friendliness of the University of Phoenix?The News GazetteFull Article
CAMBRIDGE, ENGLAND — This past year has been a time of signs and wonders for the open educational resources movement, which pushes for free public access to educational materials. The New York Times Full Article
ORLANDO — “My own college behaves much more like a private college these days than a public.” Stephen M. Curtis, president of the Community College of Philadelphia, told fellow community college leaders here Sunday that this statement was true of his institution and many others. And he’s not ashamed. When talking to elected officials, potential […]
At its first meeting of spring quarter, the Faculty Senate heard presentations about three well-established Stanford programs that offer online courses, and on the university’s newest online courses, which are available free from Coursera.Stanford UniversityPress Release
The theme of disrupting higher education was buzzing among hundreds of conference attendees this week at the Education Innovation Summit at Arizona State University.Wired Campus Full Story
Princeton University, the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor have teamed up with a for-profit company to offer free versions of their coveted courses this year to online audiences. By doing so, they join a growing group of top-tier universities that are embracing massively open online courses, or MOOCs, as […]
In the grand University of California system, the Berkeley and UCLA campuses have long claimed an outsized share of the public imagination. It’s easy to forget that the state system has more than two great institutions of higher education. In the heart of the Central Valley, UC-Davis has grown in a hundred years from being […]
Meet the Ed-Tech Start-Ups It’s a golden age for educational-technology start-ups. The past three years have seen a spike in venture-capital investment in upstart companies, many founded by entrepreneurs just out of college. Last month The Chronicle outlined the trend (“A Boom Time for Education Start-Ups”), but we wanted to dig deeper.The Chronicle of Higher […]
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology ended 2011 with a grand announcement: It would broadcast massive, open online courses — equal in rigor to its on-campus offerings — to tens of thousands of non-enrolled, non-paying learners around the world. Eventually, the university would offer these students a pathway to some sort of credential. The project, called […]
Whatever becomes of the Minerva Project, you have to give the big names behind it credit for aiming high (at least with its rhetoric, which is the only way to judge it thus far).Inside Higher EdFull Article