You know we’re at the cusp of change when online education beats traditional school education. Which is exactly what’s happening right now. According to various researches, students taking courses or classes online outperform the students getting a traditional education. More...
Will online learning help four-year colleges weather the next recession?
Some higher ed analysts say the four-year schools that have made their programs more open and flexible, such as by offering them online, are in a better position than they were a decade ago to attract a wider range of students. More...
Uni of Liverpool & KOL partner for online learning
By Viggo Stacey. The University of Liverpool has announced that Kaplan Open Learning has been selected as its partner to create and deliver postgraduate taught programs to a global student audience through online learning. The announcement was made at the British Council’s Going Global conference in Berlin. More...
CollegeDekho raises $8m in Series B funding
By Viggo Stacey. An online “university discovery platform” based in India has raised $8 million to expand its operations aiming to assist students across the country find places at higher education institutions. It is CollegeDekho‘s second round of fundraising. More...
Prioritizing Faculty in Online Education
By Joshua Kim. Is your school developing new online programs? What are the new online courses or degree programs that your institution is planning? Is your university looking at converting existing face-to-face degree programs (likely master's) into an online format. More...
Netflix, Low-Cost Online Master's Programs and 'That Will Never Work’
By Joshua Kim. Why higher ed today is like Blockbuster Video, circa 2000. More...
The Future (Revisited) of Online Education
By Steven Mintz. Given the demands on students’ time and the pressure to increase credit accumulation, online education will certainly play a growing role in undergraduate as well as graduate and professional education. More...
The Biggest Movers Online
By Doug Lederman. The Education Department's annual release of data about postsecondary enrollments is a font of information -- and we've already mined it for an article about the continuing (but slowing) rise in online enrollments in 2018. More...
Online Enrollments Grow, but Pace Slows
By Doug Lederman. New federal data show that more than a third of all 2018 college and university students took at least one online course, and that online enrollments continue steady growth as overall numbers dip. More...