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Last year on this blog, I asked a few questions (eLearning, Africa and … China?) as a result of my participation in a related event in Dar Es Salaam where lots of my African colleagues were ‘talking about China’, but where few Chinese (researchers, practitioners, firms, officials) were present. The World Bank Blog Post
Students using the agreement could earn their bachelor’s degree in three years at an estimated total cost of $17,000 in tuition and fees Western Governors University Press Release
Online education experts say Education Department officials still could push for ‘state authorization’ rules eCampus News Full Article
Vision K-20 Survey, which tracks ed-tech implementation over time, shows educators’ ‘ideal’ goals for the first time eSchool News Full Article
Baltimore, MD – StraighterLine (www.straighterline.com) announced today that Jack in the Box Inc., which operates and franchises one of the nation’s largest hamburger chains, is adding StraighterLine’s extremely flexible self-paced online college courses as an option for their employees. StraighterLine Press Release
Several universities have recently tried a new model for delivering textbooks in hopes of saving students money: requiring purchase of e-textbooks and charging students a materials fee to cover the costs. A recent report on some of those pilot projects, however, shows that many students find the e-textbooks “clumsy” and prefer print. Wired Campus Full […]
Abstract The aim of this study was to examine the factors that motivate students in large online courses. Specifically, the purposes were: (a) to document how highly men and women rated motivational beliefs in a large online course; (b) to determine why men and women rated their motivational beliefs the way in which they did; […]
Abstract The lack of writing skill among college graduates is often blamed on poor teaching, or alternatively, failure on the part of schools and instructors to teach the basic grammar and punctuation skills that employers remember learning in their own school years. While it may be true that teaching techniques and course content have changed […]
Abstract The context for this case study is an online, undergraduate, 300-level organization behavior course that explores the intersection of individuals and organization systems at three levels of aggregation: individual, team/group, and organization system. The case study begins with a learning activity designed to use an asynchronous threaded discussion format to elicit, organize and meaningfully […]
By the end of this decade, four out of every 10 of the world’s young graduates are going to come from just two countries – China and India. BBC Full Article