By Eric Stoller. Thoughts on staffing, inclusive language, cross-campus collaboration, communications, and digital engagement. More...
Online Is (Increasingly) Local
By Doug Lederman. The proportion of students studying fully online who are enrolled within 50 miles of their homes has risen from under half to fully two-thirds, a new study finds. More...
The Next Stage for NC-SARA
By Doug Lederman. A national group dedicated to coordinating state approval of online programs selects a new leader and plans to focus more on program quality. More...
Plug-and-Play Online Courses: Innovation or Dystopia?
By Mark Lieberman. Template structures for online courses are becoming more common across higher ed. While they can create efficiency, some instructors worry they're stamping out individual agency. More...
Trial and Error: Refining Online Courses With Constant Feedback
By Mark Lieberman. Struggling to figure out how best to serve students? One professor tried a radical approach: he asked them. More...
UC Davis Adds Online Short Courses Powered by 2U
By Mark Lieberman. The University of California, Davis, this summer will launch new online short courses in leadership and strategic negotiations as part of its existing partnership with the online program manager 2U, the company announced last week. More...
Doing It Yourself: The ‘Internal OPM’ Model
By Mark Lieberman. As concerns about outsourcing ring out across online education, several institutions have carved out niches by developing in-house capacity that resembles OPM functions. More...
Illinois Will End Residential M.B.A. in Favor of Online Program
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign announced Friday that it plans to shut down its residential M.B.A. programs — full-time and part-time — to focus on its online M.B.A., which it calls the iMBA. More...
Revolutionizing online education: A conversation with President Michael Crow of Arizona State University
At ASU, we are advancing our own approach to Universal Learning, which integrates online learning, virtual reality, artificial intelligence, game-based learning, entrepreneurship, public and private sector partners, and global alliances to design accessible education pathways for students of all learning levels at any point in their lives. More...
A look inside online learning settings in high schools
Research evidence stresses the importance of continued live interactions between teachers and students as online instruction is adopted, as well as more collaborative (rather than independent) interactions with online instructional programs. More...