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Colleges and universities incorporate online education using a variety of approaches. For some, there is little oversight applied to course design; faculty members enjoy free reign to engineer course structure as they wish within a college’s learning management system. At other institutions, instructors manage pre-written courses and serve only to grade assignments and answer student […]
Last week I wrote a piece where I hypothesized that the way to understand online learning and business schools is through the lens of brands. I argued that for top business schools, online education is about defending and evolving their brand positions, and about leveraging existing brands to scale. In this post, I look a […]
Here are six reasons why the 30-year-old WGU is a disruptive university eCampus News
Several Ivy League universities offer online degrees at the graduate level — but few have ventured into online undergraduate degrees. The University of Pennsylvania could lead the way. The University of Pennsylvania announced Tuesday that it plans to launch a completely new, online bachelor’s degree in applied arts and sciences. Inside Higher Ed
Lower enrollments in the freshman class are forcing institutions to make decisions about how to scale the processes for creating distance learning degrees. However, the scaling up in the migration of face-to-face degrees to online degrees does not need to sacrifice quality. This paper describes the processes used to accelerate the development of online degree […]
Executive summary of findings The Community College Libraries & Academic Support for Student Success (CCLASSS) project examines student goals, challenges, and needs from the student perspective. Through this project, we aim to provide community colleges and their libraries with strategic intelligence on how to adapt their services to most effectively meet student needs. In spring […]
This report is the first in a series from a rigorous evaluation of the Apple and ConnectED initiative conducted by SRI International (SRI). The full study combines surveys, case studies, achievement data, and examination of learning opportunities to offer a well-rounded picture of what it takes to leverage technology to dramatically improve learning opportunities, particularly in schools […]
WhiteHat, a U.K.-based startup, announced on Wednesday it had closed a $4 million seed round to expand their quality apprenticeship-based education, which serves as an alternative to university. Lightspeed Venture Partners led the round and were joined by Village Global, ShopTalk, and others. ELEARNING INSIDE
In the late ’90s and early 2000s, when online education was still nascent, state university systems needed major technical help getting new programs off the ground. Several organizations focused on digital learning cropped up, bolstered by state funding and membership fees from participating institutions. Inside Higher Ed
No extant research has examined the web presence, web popularity, and paid adword tactics of historically-Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) compared to similar institutions. This study explores these measures and evaluates how HBCU web presence, web popularity, and paid search tactics compare to similar institutions to learn whether HBCUs are competing in one of the […]
