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What do MOOCs mean for research at universities?
MOOCs might provide education, but can they foster research and discovery?
By Daniel Shumski • Oct. 17, 2013 -
EdX to push toward more personalized MOOCs
The Gates Foundation gives money to HarvardX to study the issue.
By Daniel Shumski • Oct. 17, 2013 -
Deep Dive
3 hard education questions Ken Robinson says need to be answered [Educause 2013]
Noted educational theorist and author Sir Ken Robinson opened Educause with a keynote on the obstacles that stunt innovation in the educational, corporate and cultural worlds.
By Roger Riddell • Oct. 16, 2013 -
Deep Dive
What does Blackboard have planned for MOOCs? [Educause 2013]
We caught up with the company's director of product management and CourseSites to find out.
By Roger Riddell • Oct. 16, 2013 -
Do MOOCs have a chance as a business model?
The Wall Street Journal asks experts about the risks and opportunities of online education.
By Daniel Shumski • Oct. 16, 2013 -
Deep Dive
5 professors on YouTube who nailed teaching online
From a noted astrophysicist to a former soap opera writer, these lecturers have what it takes to make it online.
By Daniel Shumski • Oct. 15, 2013 -
See how a MOOC is made
A creator of a course about blended learning takes readers behind the scenes.
By Daniel Shumski • Oct. 15, 2013 -
Poll shows mixed image of online education
Web-based learning is rated best for value and weakest in terms of acceptance by employers.
By Daniel Shumski • Oct. 15, 2013 -
First iversity MOOCs arrive: Is it Europe's Coursera?
Wait until you see where this MOOC provider hopes to be by end of 2014.
By Brian Warmoth • Oct. 14, 2013 -
Coursera's latest disruption: The academic calendar
The MOOC provider's co-founder, Andrew Ng, says short courses are the future.
By Roger Riddell • Oct. 11, 2013 -
Tech issues and fishy finances: The week's most read education news
From the strange to the downright fishy, Education Dive had readers covered this week.
By Roger Riddell • Oct. 11, 2013 -
Faculty groups want to examine MOOC profit motives
Some educators say online platforms are driven by money, not learning.
By Daniel Shumski • Oct. 10, 2013 -
MOOC report card: What needs improvement?
A Wall Street Journal scorecard identifies areas for improvement in online learning.
By Daniel Shumski • Oct. 9, 2013 -
Desire2Learn adds MOOC support with new learning platform
The LMS provider will allow institutions to keep the rights to course material.
By Roger Riddell • Oct. 8, 2013 -
Coursera expands to China
The MOOC platform is teaming up with universities in the world's most-populated country.
By Daniel Shumski • Oct. 8, 2013 -
Lincoln Labs and Venture Hive partner for Miami education hackathon
The free competition will award $5,000 in prizes.
By Roger Riddell • Oct. 7, 2013 -
For-profit Capella U. offers competency-based degrees online
Some students have completed the self-paced courses in as little as four weeks.
By Daniel Shumski • Oct. 7, 2013 -
Gates says flipped classrooms could help 2-year schools
The billionaire and education philanthropist says MOOCs could make community colleges more efficient.
By Daniel Shumski • Oct. 4, 2013 -
Berklee to offer music degrees online for half price
The college says it's the first nonprofit music institution to offer an accredited bachelor’s degree online.
By Daniel Shumski • Oct. 4, 2013 -
MOOC instructor shares her top 5 tips
Her journalism class had 3,700 students from 140 countries and all kinds of backgrounds.
By Daniel Shumski • Oct. 3, 2013 -
Ask these questions before establishing a MOOC
A Duke professor lists issues to examine before jumping on the bandwagon.
By Daniel Shumski • Oct. 3, 2013 -
What will higher education look like in 2020?
An Observatory on Borderless Higher Education report has three key findings for the not-so-distant future.
By Daniel Shumski • Oct. 3, 2013 -
Deep Dive
10 popular MOOC instructors with brilliant Twitter accounts
Check out how they interact with their students and wider audiences. You might get some ideas.
By Roger Riddell • Oct. 2, 2013 -
Google launches an analytics MOOC
The tech giant is taking yet another foray into online learning with its latest course on data-driven decision-making.
By Roger Riddell • Oct. 2, 2013 -
MOOCs: Is product placement the next frontier?
One author wonders whether corporate sponsorship is next for online classes.
By Daniel Shumski • Oct. 1, 2013
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