The California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) is launching a cluster of online courses titled Game Design: Art and Concepts on Coursera. More...
21 septembre 2015
21 septembre 2015
Texas to try free freshman online courses
By Tim Goral. Starting next fall, the system plans to encourage nontraditional students to take free massive open online courses, known as MOOCs, before arriving on campus. If they take 10 courses and pass tests for college credit, students could show up at school with a year’s work complete before paying a single tuition bill. More...
21 septembre 2015
Obama promotes online search tool with college-specific data
By Tim Goral. President Barack Obama on Saturday debuted a redesigned online tool with college-specific information about student costs, loans and potential earning power, scaling back a planned ratings system that critics derided as too subjective and unworkable. More...
20 septembre 2015
Preparing Lectures for Large Online Classes
By Anastasia Salter. This semester, I’m teaching a fairly large (130 at final count) online course in digital media. I wrote last month about some of the strategies I’ve used to prepare the course, including thinking about replacements for in-class activities and planning a highly structured series of content. Read more...19 septembre 2015
Overcoming Online Persistence Challenges With The Trojan Café (Part 2)
By Amanda Smothers - EvoLLLution. One of the first ideas that came out of the planning phase was to create student forums that would allow interaction between users. Students were already utilizing Blackboard discussion boards to meet course requirements, therefore the infrastructure was ideal for hosting casual student forums. More...
19 septembre 2015
Online Program Development in an Era of Rapid Institutional Change (Part 1)
By Vincent J. Del Casino Jr. - EvoLLLution. It seems as if every month another university or college announces its intentions to develop fully online degree programs. For some institutions, the move online is tied to shifts in enrollments, as declines in eligible high school graduates give way to a focus on the so-called non-traditional learner. More...
19 septembre 2015
Udemy sees 200% rise in revenue, online learning demand increases
By Natalie Marsh. Online learning platform, Udemy, has seen an increase in revenue of 200% year on year, as the demand for skills-based online learning increases. More...
19 septembre 2015
Know Your Time Management Limits as an Online Student
Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. A full-time job and a full-time course load aren’t workable for every online student. After closing five tabs on my Chrome Web browser and another eight course documents, I looked at my schedule for the upcoming week: three and a half hours of free time left – not for a day, but for the entire week. More...
19 septembre 2015
More Microsoft Courses On edX
Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. Two new courses from Microsoft, one on XAML, the other on jQuery, start next week on edX. Other of the edX/Microsoft courses are now self-paced so you can begin them whenever you want. Microsoft partnered with edX earlier this year to run MOOCs taught by Microsoft trainers and taking advantage of the edX delivery platform. More...
19 septembre 2015
Harvard Business School Begins Offering Credit for some Online Extension Courses
Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. Beginning in January, students who take select courses in Harvard Business School’s online digital education initiative, also known as HBX, will receive college credit for them. Students who receive the HBX Certificate of Readiness (CORe) after passing three business fundamentals courses — business analytics, economics for managers and financial accounting — will receive eight undergraduate credits from the Harvard Extension School. More...
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