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ORLANDO — The men and women who attend the Sloan Consortium’s annual meeting have been toiling in the fields of online learning for many years, so they could be forgiven for having a wee bit of skepticism (if not resentment) about “MOOC mania,” the hubbub of hyper-attention that has been paid in recent months to […]
The Open University has launched JuxtaLearn, a new international initiative to encourage students to express complex ideas through creative means. The main goal of the project is to research and develop an educational and technological framework that utilises creativity and performance as scaffolding juxtaposed with science and technology learning. The Open University, UK Press Release
Orlando, Fla. — A longtime online-learning pioneer sounded a note of frustration at a national cyberlearning conference here this week. The complaint was over the perception that MOOC’s, or massive open online courses, run by highly selective universities are the biggest drivers of innovation in online learning. Wired Campus Full Article
CHEA Currently Recognizes 60 Institutional and Programmatic Accrediting Organizations Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA) Press Release
A growing number of nonprofit colleges have become big fish in online education and are targeting a working-adult-student market long-dominated by for-profit institutions. As the competition heats up, better-informed consumers will increasingly seek out online programs based on price and brand strength. Inside Higher Ed Full Article
Professors are using more technology in the classroom than they were two years ago, and their students have a message for them: Keep it coming. Inside Higher Ed Full Article
This First Look presents preliminary findings from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) spring 2012 data collection, which included four survey components: Enrollment for fall 2011; Graduation Rates within 150 percent of normal program completion time for full-time, first-time degree/ certificate-seeking undergraduate students beginning college in 2005 at 4-year institutions or in 2008 at […]
Stanford medical faculty member Kristin Sainani launches an online science-writing class. Kristin Sainani is teaching her ‘Writing in the Sciences’ course online for the first time this fall. Here’s a really bad sentence: “This paper provides a review of the basic tenets of cancer biology study design, using as examples studies that illustrate the methodologic […]
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A department at New York University is beginning to use a free online service to help teach computer-programming courses. Wired Campus Full Article