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Washington — A new partnership between Howard University and Pearson Education will allow the university to expand its online offerings started in the fall of 2014. The university will begin offering degree programs through the partnership, called Howard University Online, and hopes to reach up to 25 online programs in the following years. Wired Campus […]
The second half of the twentieth century was a time of great creativity in the kinds of public policies that were put into place for higher education in the United States after the end of World War II. These policies, which opened up access to education and research funding, gave U.S. colleges and universities an […]
David Willetts, universities and science minister, talks at length about the potential for massive open online courses (Moocs) to change the way higher education is delivered. There then follows a question and answer session featuring UK university employees. The session is chaired by Anthony McClaran, chief executive of the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education, […]
California State University is starting an online program this fall that will let students on any of the system’s 23 campuses enroll in online courses offered by another campus to obtain credits they need to graduate, the Los Angeles Times reports. Officials hope the program will help students who have been shut out of hard-to-get […]
In a world of Massive Open Online Courses that enroll tens or hundreds of thousands of “students” at a time and, if one doesn’t seek course credit, currently cost participants nothing, traditional institutions of higher education rightly fear enormous disruption to their revenue models—and to the very ways they educate. CISCO Full Article
Nairobi, 1st, August, 2013. The African Virtual University (AVU) launched the AVU Multinational Project II at Egerton University on 1st, August, 2013. Speaking on behalf of the AVU Rector, Dr. Bakary Diallo, the AVU Head of Academic programs, Dr. Atieno Adala, said: “Various studies have demonstrated that the current mode of delivery has been unable […]
University of Maryland University College (UMUC) believes it will be the first university in the Maryland system to let students earn academic credit for taking a massive open online course (MOOC). eCampus News Full Article
After years of discussion, the University of California’s Academic Senate has adopted an open-access policy that will make research articles freely available to the public through eScholarship, California’s open digital repository. The Chronicle of Higher Education Full Article
This paper provides the rationale and framework for the blended advising model, a coherent approach to fusing technology—particularly the ePortfolio—into advising. The proposed term, “blended advising,” is based on blended learning theory and incorporates the deliberate use of the strengths from both face-to-face and online environments, as well as synchronous and asynchronous technologies and interactions. […]
Testing firms are offering new ways to measure what students learn in college. Their next generation of assessments is billed as an add-on – rather than a replacement – to the college degree. But the tests also give graduates something besides a transcript to send to a potential employer. Inside Higher Ed Full Article