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The Southern University system is increasing its online course offerings through a partnership with a for-profit provider of online degree programs for historically black colleges and universities.SOURCE: Wired CampusRead the Full Article
Open Universities Australia (OUA) is pleased to announce the first Visiting Scholar under the new Centre for Online Learning Excellence Thomas C. Reeves, Ph.D. who will be working with OUA from 12 November to 10 December. SOURCE: Open Universities of AustraliaRead the Press Release
FAIRBANKS — More than half of University of Alaska Fairbanks students are taking at least one of their courses through the Internet this semester, a first-time milestone that coincides with a boom in online education at UAF.SOURCE: Fairbanks Daily News
The U.S. Government Accountability Office has released results from a second undercover “secret shopper” investigation of for-profit colleges, this time attempting to enroll a fictitious student online at 15 unnamed institutions.SOURCE: Inside Higher Education Read the Full Artcile
Despite theories that online enrollments might be approaching a plateau, the number of students taking at least one online course grew substantially for the ninth straight year, according to a new survey from the Babson Survey Research Group.SOURCE: Inside Higher EducationRead the Full Article
Advocates for open educational resources, or OER, have had mixed success in getting the federal government to invest public money in open course materials.SOURCE: Inside Higher EducationRead the Full Article
This paper examines recent responses by U.S. university administrators to the volume and legal challenges surrounding on–campus and in–residence peer–to–peer (P2P) traffic. Since the earliest days of online P2P activity, universities have served as key flashpoints in the broader file sharing and intellectual property debates. But while there has been considerable attention to the emerging […]
To meet the expectations of today’s tech-savvy students, colleges and universities are looking for ways to speed up their processes and provide better services for their No. 1 customer. SOURCE: Campus TechnologyRead the Full Article
University administrators have begun implementing the new “open-access” policy approved this fall by Princeton faculty members to expand the public’s access to their research.Princeton UniversityRead the Press Release
The ECAR study of undergraduate students and information technology sheds lights on how information technology affects the college experience. EDUCAUSEDownload the Report