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Traditional and affordable access to a university education is under siege from all sides. National realpolitiks and global economic downturns have driven open education into the mainstream to stand against educational elitism, the growing digital divide, and to support the core values that give education its fundamental credence as a human right. Indeed, open is […]
n the context of education, “open(ness)” has become the watermark for a fast growing number of learning materials and associated platforms and practices from a variety of institutions and individuals. Open Educational Resources (OER), Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC), and more recently, initiatives such as Coursera are just some of the forms this movement […]
California is the Fertile Crescent for massive open online course providers, at least the for-profit ones. The state is also shaping up as a testing ground for phase two of the MOOC experiment, which includes fees and a path to college credit, and where public colleges try to use material from MOOCs to help meet […]
The third edition of the Handbook of Distance Education edited by Michael Graham Moore, Distinguished Professor of Education at The Pennsylvania State University, where he specializes in the study of distance education, has been just published by Routledge, a member of the Taylor & Francis Group. It reflects a comprehensive treatment of scholarship about contemporary […]
Farhad (Fred) Saba, Ph. D. Founder and Editor, Distance-Educator.com In recent years administrators are paying increasing attention to studying the discrete components of colleges and universities through collecting and analyzing massive amount of data on student behavior, number of courses offered and taken, time students spend in each course, completion rates, etc. While analytics sheds […]
Farhad (Fred) Saba, Ph. D. Founder and Editor, Distance-Educator.co The dramatic increase in popularity of higher education in the past 30 years has resulted in a major change in the profile of students attending colleges and universities. No longer the majority of the student body consists of full-time in-residence young men and women between 18 […]
New global report sheds light on lack of internet access, use by women eSchool News Full Article
Proponents of open educational resources (OER) claim that significant cost savings are possible when open textbooks displace traditional textbooks in the college classroom. We investigated student and faculty perceptions of OER used in a community college context. Over 125 students and 11 faculty from seven colleges responded to an online questionnaire about the cost and […]
This study reports findings from a year-long pilot study during which 991 students in 9 core courses in the Virginia State University School of Business replaced traditional textbooks with openly licensed books and other digital content. The university made a deliberate decision to use open textbooks that were copyrighted under the Creative Commons license. This decision was […]
UPCEA has partnered with the American Council on Education (ACE) to examine the academic potential of massive open online courses (MOOCs). UPCEA will collaborate with ACE to evaluate how MOOCs could integrate into traditional degree completion programs. ACE, through funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, will work with UPCEA and Coursera, a leading […]