Ga. Tech to Offer a MOOC-Like Online Master's Degree
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5/15/2013
4/25/2013
U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Plans to Add 500 Full-Time Professors
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign announced this week that it would hire about 500 new full-time, tenure-track faculty members in the next five to seven years.The hiring spree follows years of budget shortfalls that limited hiring at the university, including one year in which hiring was frozen campuswide. University officials now want to restore the total number of full-time faculty members to a level closer to what the campus had in 2007, just before the recession hit."
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4/22/2013
Social Media's Negative Effect on Academic Performance
Researchers show a link between social media and academic performance among the freshmen in a study, which is the first of its kind. The study looked at students engaged in any form of media use including texting, music, the Internet and social networking. The study shows an average freshmen woman spends 12 hours every day engaged in any form of media use. | 0 Comments
4/11/2013
California State U. System Will Expand MOOC Experiment
San Jose State University plans to widen its relationship with edX, the nonprofit provider of massive open online courses, and the California State University system is encouraging similar experiments on 11 other campuses. | 0 Comments
4/09/2013
University students launch StudyCloud to enhance classroom experience
University undergraduate students have joined forces to launch their own online startup company, StudyCloud. The website is a free educational productivity application that is geared towards college students. By providing users with course-specific open forums, the StudyCloud founders hope to enhance and simplify the classroom experience. | 0 Comments
3/28/2013
Walk Deliberately, Don't Run, Toward Online Education
"Also at play is what I can only call the missionary spirit. The creators of many online courses are true believers who simply want to get on with their work without being distracted by the need to assess outcomes or costs. In all fairness, I have to add that these are early days, and it is unrealistic to expect to have in hand careful assessments of potentially pathbreaking offerings, such as some of the MOOCs (massive open online courses) that have been introduced relatively recently. Still, there is no excuse for not working now on plans for rigorous third-party evaluations." | 0 Comments
3/25/2013
Mission, MOOCs, & Money
Forget basketball and March Madness. Aside from always pressing financial issues, it is “MOOC madness” that has emerged as the topic du jour at a growing number of American colleges and universities. Indeed, in boardrooms all across the country, people are grappling with what the advent of MOOCs—massive open online courses—means to their institutions. | 0 Comments
3/21/2013
In the Year of Disruptive Education
In retrospect, 2012 may well be remembered as the year when Internet technology enabled the popularity of MOOCs—or massive open online courses—a form of disruptive or transformative education currently growing at a meteoric rate.
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3/14/2013
What You Need to Know About MOOCs
Colleges and professors have rushed to try a new form of online teaching known as MOOCs—short for "massive open online courses." The courses raise questions about the future of teaching, the value of a degree, and the effect technology will have on how colleges operate. Struggling to make sense of it all? | 0 Comments
3/10/2013
Creative Learning Pays Off for Web Start-Ups
Anyone who wants to learn calculus, statistics or ancient Greek history can take free online courses in those subjects at a variety of sites from instructors with distinguished academic pedigrees. For more mundane pursuits, like learning how to paddleboard or build a planter box for the garden, there is an inexhaustible supply of free how-to videos on YouTube, eHow and other sites.
3/05/2013
A Master List of 700 Free Courses From Great Universities
This master list lets you download free courses from schools like Stanford, Yale, MIT, Oxford, Harvard and UC Berkeley. Generally, the courses can be accessed via YouTube, iTunes or university web sites. Right now you’ll find 85 courses in Philosophy, 60 in History, 80 in Computer Science, 35 in Physics, and that’s just beginning to scratch the surface. | 0 Comments
3/01/2013
iTunes U Content Tops One Billion Downloads
“It’s inspiring to see what educators and students of all types are doing with iTunes U,” said Eddy Cue, Apple’s senior vice president of Internet Software and Services. “With the incredible content offered on iTunes U, students can learn like never before―there are now iTunes U courses with more than 250,000 students enrolled in them, which is a phenomenal shift in the way we teach and learn.” | 0 Comments
The MOOC-Averse Technology U
While other universities move quickly to offer courses online for free, Carnegie Mellon University is instead starting for-profit efforts designed to capture segments of the education market.
Provost Mark Kamlet said the university is looking for a "financially sustainable" way to expand its reach. So far, that means a handful of spinoffs with a variety of products aimed at workforce development and online education.
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2/28/2013
Ten Years Later: Why Open Educational Resources Have Not Noticeably Affected Higher Education, and Why We Should Care
When MIT first announced its Open Courseware (OCW) initiative in October 2002, it shook the business model of traditional higher education institutions that had established "virtual universities" in an attempt to sell their brand and their educational resources worldwide. With OCW, MIT sent a signal: we don't sell learning resources, we sell certification of learning; learning resources do not have much intrinsic monetary value, but a degree does. This was arguably the first disruption of the higher education market in decades, marking the birth of the open educational resource (OER). | 0 Comments
2/21/2013
Privacy, security, and compliance
Where does privacy belong in the college/university ecosystem, and what should its relationship be with security and compliance? Are the three areas best kept separate and distinct? Should there be some overlap? | 0 Comments