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The online university will become University of Maryland Global Campus and spend $500 million to grow nationally, while some in the Maryland system mull whether the university could help run online programs for other campuses. Inside Higher Ed
Two online initiatives in California—the CSU’s Cal State Online and the CCC’s Online Education Initiative—collaborated to focus on the shared interests of students from both segments by accelerating completion through summer courses. EDUCAUSE Review
The Open University has a long tradition and this webinar brings together four distinguished speakers who will share their reflections on following questions: What makes the Open University unique from other universities? What major challenges have open universities faced over the past 10-years? To what extent is the Open University still relevant in the digital-era? […]
World over, open distance learning (ODL) is widely articulated and vouchered as a panacea pedagogy for increased access and flexibility to higher education. In reality, however, the actual use of ODL approaches in higher institutions of learning in developing regions is unexpectedly low and not in tandem with its wide favorable regional and international vouchering. […]
UPDATED: Education Department apparently disregards congressional instructions for spending 2019 money, dividing $5 million between Arizona State University and Chippewa Valley Technical College. Inside Higher Ed
Digitalization in Higher Education (HE) institutions is an issue that concerns many educational stakeholders. ICT skills are becoming increasingly relevant in every context, especially in the workplace, therefore one of the prime objectives for universities has become preparing future professionals to be able to deal with problems and search for solutions, including digital competence as […]
The Department of Education’s ambitious proposals to revamp regulations around accreditation, pitched as an effort to facilitate educational innovation, drew widespread blowback earlier this year. Yesterday, department officials offered the clearest signals yet that the criticisms have prompted a change in strategy. Timed to coincide with Tuesday’s start of the second of three rounds of […]
The project aimed to: offer insights into the needs of adult learners for the benefit of both policy makers and distance education providers; strengthen the social dimension of higher education by better meeting the needs of adult learners; increase the participation of adult learners in higher education through distance education. The objectives of the project […]
few refrains jumped out from last week’s first round of discussions hosted by the Department of Education for revamping federal rules around distance education and innovative programs. “This is a starting point.” “What problem are you trying to solve here?” “We need more clarity.” Taken together, these recurring comments add up to a unified narrative […]
Governments and world policy agencies now have technological unemployment and the future of work on their policy agendas. The rapid emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) and deep learning in the past decade has taken us by surprise, both in their development and the scope of their applications. University World News
