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Recent headlines from places as diverse as Kenya (“6,000 primary schools picked for free laptop project”) and California (“Los Angeles plans to give 640,000 students free iPads”) are just two announcements among many which highlight the increasing speed and scale by which portable computing devices (laptops, tablets) are being rolled out in school systems all […]
LINCOLN, Nebraska — The University of Nebraska continues to significantly expand its online education options. Mary Niemiec, who leads NU’s distance education program, says the number of credit hours generated by students only in the distance program grew 12 percent to 57,000 last school year. The Republic Full Article
Maintaining academic standards, retention of quality online instructors and establishing a measure for instruction can be enhanced through faculty observation and evaluation. As Park University entered the online market, the increased course offerings involved an increased number of adjunct faculty members. In order to ensure that these faculty members used best practices and maintain high […]
Maintaining academic standards, retention of quality online instructors and establishing a measure for instruction can be enhanced through faculty observation and evaluation. As Park University entered the online market, the increased course offerings involved an increased number of adjunct faculty members. In order to ensure that these faculty members used best practices and maintain high […]
Make sure to mark your calendars for the 2014 UPCEA 99th Annual Conference held in Miami, FL – March 26 – 28, 2014! Competency-based education, MOOCs, internationalization, new business models, and emerging markets. For professional, continuing, and online educators, the “new normal” is anything but new. We have always operated in a dynamic environment marked […]
The Open University has ended its six-and-a-half-year affiliation with the University Alliance mission group. Times Higher Education Full Article
Proponents of online learning often use train metaphors to describe its growing impact on the educational landscape. Those of us who teach at two-year colleges, especially, are constantly encouraged, prodded, hectored, cajoled—and sometimes even ordered—to get on board. Otherwise, we’re told, we’re likely to be run over. The Chronicle of Higher Education Full Article
The Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, will soon conduct examinations online to minimise any chances of fraud, cheating or manipulation of the system. The first such test will be conducted for the recruitment of clerks soon, sources said. Hindustan Times
The storing, management, and security of Big Data is of paramount importance to colleges and universities, with many schools using the reams of student data to stem dropout rates and identify at-risk students, among other uses. eCampus News Full Article
After two semesters of experimentation, San Jose State University has decided to take a “breather” in a project aimed at determining whether Udacity, a Silicon Valley-based company that specializes in massive open online courses, can help the university deliver credit-bearing online courses. The Chronicle of Higher Education Full Article