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Stanford and Piazza to introduce social learning to iTunes U resources
"iPad and iPhone Application Development" will begin offering student communication features this summer
By Brian Warmoth • June 19, 2012 -
Deltak Partners With Boston University To Launch New Online Graduate Law Degree
Education Service Provider to Introduce Second Online Master’s Degree Program with University Read more »
By Shehryar Nabi • June 18, 2012 -
Tech start-ups challenge the status quo in higher education
With costs going up in higher ed, start-ups are stepping up with alternate approaches to compete with traditional colleges and universities
By Brian Warmoth • June 13, 2012 -
University of Wisconsin launching new dual-enrollment program for high school students
Students will be able to earn college credits, and high schools will be able to keep state funding
By Brian Warmoth • June 12, 2012 -
Barriers to competency-based education may be lifting, panel says
WASHINGTON - Competency-based higher education's time may have arrived, but no college has gone all-in with a degree program that qualifies for federal aid and is based on competency rather than time in class. Colleges blame regulatory barriers for the hold-up. The U.S. Education Departmen...
By Brian Warmoth • June 8, 2012 -
Huffington Post offers to publish student theses
Publishing online through HuffPo introduces opportunities, as well as risks for students who opt not to publish elsewhere
By Brian Warmoth • June 5, 2012 -
Online courses can offer easy A's via high-tech cheating
Easy A's may be even easier to score these days, with the growing popularity of online courses
By Brian Warmoth • June 3, 2012 -
Blackboard's Moodlerooms acquisition may signal a change in perspective
Will the education software provider's future include a more open attitude toward open source software?
By Brian Warmoth • June 1, 2012 -
6 keys to engaging students online
While some instructors think online teaching will be a breeze, the truth is that the best teachers work really hard to connect with students
By Brian Warmoth • May 31, 2012 -
College health officials told incentive-based programs don't work
College health officials who rely on incentives to promote healthy behavior among students got a rude (but good-humored) awakening here Tuesday morning during the keynote address of the American College Health Association's annual convention
By Brian Warmoth • May 30, 2012 -
Rapid Power Tools: The top performers of eLearning authoring software
The eLearning authoring tool market has quietly been seeing a bit of a surge over the last couple of years—a surge that I have been thrilled to see
By Brian Warmoth • May 22, 2012 -
Report: Robots stack up to human professors in teaching Intro Stats
Experiments compared human instructors with 'machine-guided learning' software
By Brian Warmoth • May 22, 2012 -
Teacher Development: Starter Kit for Teaching Online
Expert advice on shifting from brick and mortar to bytes and bits
By Brian Warmoth • May 21, 2012 -
Online office hours debate hits San Antonio College
As professors field more and more questions via online communications, many would like to see office hours defined differently across academia
By Brian Warmoth • May 17, 2012 -
The Homework Trap
Kenneth Goldberg, Ph.D. writes on the stresses introduced by homework for Edutopia
By Brian Warmoth • May 15, 2012 -
Candace Thille talks MOOCs and machine learning
When Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology sent ripples through the higher education world last week by announcing edX, a joint platform for massive online versions of their courses, many observers took it as a boon for access.
By Brian Warmoth • May 10, 2012 -
Law School Plans to Offer Web Courses for Master's
The law school of Washington University announced Tuesday that it would offer, entirely online, a master’s degree in United States law intended for lawyers practicing overseas, in partnership with 2tor, an education technology company.
By Brian Warmoth • May 9, 2012 -
$10,000 degree push has led to innovation in pricing but not cost control
$10,000 may not be able to buy as much as it used to, but Texas politicians and higher education administrators think that with a little experimentation it can buy a pretty good bachelor's degree.
By Brian Warmoth • May 9, 2012 -
Walmart and American Public U. chart new ground with partnership
Why the retail giant came together with a for-profit school as a preferred provider of education and training for employees.
By Brian Warmoth • May 8, 2012 -
David Brooks compares higher education's fate to news industry changes
The New York Times columnist evaluates who has the most to gain and the tradeoffs that may be required as institutions such as Harvard and MIT focus more and more on online learning.
By Brian Warmoth • May 4, 2012 -
Daily Value: $60 million invested by Harvard and MIT in online learning
How much are Harvard and MIT putting into their edX online learning initiative, and how does that compare to MIT's past efforts? We look at the numbers.
By Brian Warmoth • May 3, 2012 -
Are Students Online Ready? How to Boost Student Success and Completion Rates
The Assistant Dean of Learning at Delgado Community College discusses how they adopted online learning in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina
By Sean Griffey • May 2, 2012 -
Iowa Universities Adjust To Burst Of Interest In Online Learning
Enrollment in online courses at Iowa’s three public universities increased 65 percent last five years
By Sean Griffey • April 30, 2012 -
Reclaiming the Classroom With Old-Fashioned Teaching
One teacher finds the best way to get students from tuning out is to turn off the technology she relied on to teach
By Sean Griffey • April 29, 2012 -
Bringing Open Education to the Mainstream
Large-scale open education initiatives have the potential to change the landscape of higher education by creating a learning community that spreads beyond the walls of the university
By Sean Griffey • April 25, 2012
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