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Michigan State launches food MOOC portal with EdCast
Initial courses cover topics like food fraud and basic food safety.
By Roger Riddell • Oct. 15, 2014 -
Foundations, Microsoft, and teacher pet peeves: The week's most read education news
Fall behind? Get caught up on the remainder of our Educause coverage and more right here!
By Roger Riddell • Oct. 10, 2014 -
Deep Dive
11 ed tech developments from Educause
Seeing everything on display at a show this size is difficult, if not seemingly impossible, so here are a few things you might have missed.
By Roger Riddell • Oct. 10, 2014 -
Starbucks-ASU collaboration enrolls 1,800
About 1,000 employees will start their subsidized educations next week.
By Keith Button • Oct. 7, 2014 -
5 colleges win ed tech awards
WCET, a division of the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education, issues WOW awards annually for innovation in technology-based learning programs.
By Keith Button • Oct. 7, 2014 -
Deep Dive
Educause 2014: Our recap of higher ed IT's premier gathering
We've rounded up all of our coverage from the higher ed IT mega-gathering in one place for your convenience.
By Roger Riddell • Oct. 6, 2014 -
Deep Dive
3 things you need to know about disruptive innovation in higher ed [Educause 2014]
A general session keynote by Clayton Christensen laid out what higher ed administrators should know about disruption in the marketplace.
By Roger Riddell • Oct. 2, 2014 -
USC partners with WIRED, others on online master's degree
The integrated design, business, and technology degree will be launched in fall 2015.
By Keith Button • Oct. 2, 2014 -
Deep Dive
Wednesday at Educause: Leadership, Watson, and social CIOs
The announcements might have slowed down, but there was still plenty to take in.
By Roger Riddell • Oct. 1, 2014 -
Three more universities join Unizin
The University of Wisconsin-Madison, Oregon State University, and the University of Minnesota are joining the digital learning consortium.
By Keith Button • Oct. 1, 2014 -
Deep Dive
Tuesday at Educause 2014: Disruptive innovation, awards, and more
Get caught up on the sessions and all of the latest announcements from Blackboard, Desire2Learn, Instructure, and more.
By Roger Riddell • Sept. 30, 2014 -
D2L announces Web accessibility MOOC with Portland Community College [Educause 2014]
The MOOC is meant to help online educators address the needs of students with disabilities.
By Roger Riddell • Sept. 29, 2014 -
Corinthian sale not so easy
The U.S. Department of Education finds itself trying to shore up Corinthian Colleges, for the sake of taxpayers, at the same time it shuts the for-profit education company down.
By Keith Button • Sept. 26, 2014 -
Study: MOOC learning rates same as MIT class
A study shows that students in a massive open online course learned just as well as those in a flipped classroom setting.
By Keith Button • Sept. 26, 2014 -
Requestec is Blackboard's latest acquisition
The fourth acquisition under CEO Jay Bhatt places the company among leading early adopters of WebRTC technology.
By Roger Riddell • Sept. 25, 2014 -
Udacity raises $35M as it moves to expand nanodegrees
The company's pivot to paid vocational learning for tech jobs is proving to be successful.
By Roger Riddell • Sept. 24, 2014 -
U of Phoenix is higher ed's most-Googled
The search engine's top 20 for higher ed reflects an increasing interest in online courses.
By Keith Button • Sept. 24, 2014 -
2U co-founder launches higher ed coding startup for students in Africa
Andela aims to train computer coders to work remotely for U.S. firms via a four-year program based in Nigeria.
By Keith Button • Sept. 24, 2014 -
Coursera expands MOOCs into Brazil, partners with two universities
The company has its eyes on a larger goal: The 215 million Portuguese speakers worldwide.
By Keith Button • Sept. 23, 2014 -
EdCast raises $6M in its quest to facilitate university collaboration
The company hopes to create 'multiversities' via its OpenEdX-based Knowledge Cloud MOOC platform.
By Roger Riddell • Sept. 22, 2014 -
WA community colleges offering self-paced online degrees
Lumen Learning and 13 Washington state community colleges are collaborating on the business degree program.
By Keith Button • Sept. 19, 2014 -
MOOCs, Twitter, and rankings: The week's most read education news
Learn more about Pearson's recent student survey on tablets and more right here!
By Roger Riddell • Sept. 12, 2014 -
NYU wants tech industry workers to enroll in its new grad program
The one-year, online program was designed to bring adult tech employees up to speed on emerging issues and trends.
By Roger Riddell • Sept. 9, 2014 -
Deep Dive
10 lessons learned from MOOCs
From what works best to clues about the model's future viability, what have massive open online courses taught us?
By Keith Button • Sept. 9, 2014 -
4,000 Starbucks employees enrolled in first free ASU semester
The company announced the Arizona State tuition reimbursement partnership in June.
By Keith Button • Sept. 3, 2014