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28 septembre 2016

Paper Explores Future of Tech in Liberal Arts Organization

By Carl Straumsheim. A yearlong evaluation of the National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education by the Council on Library and Information Resources has produced three alternative paths forward for the organization: relaunch, reconfigure or shut down. NITLE, which has helped liberal arts colleges use technology in the classroom, last year moved from its home at Southwestern University to CLIR in order to determine if the organization had a future in the face of dwindling funding and reduced activity. Read more...

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28 septembre 2016

Feds Target 'Predatory' Publishers

By Carl Straumsheim. The Federal Trade Commission is "marking a line in the sand" with its first lawsuit against publishers that take advantage of scholars wishing to publish in open-access journals. Read more...

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28 septembre 2016

Coursera Launches Corporate Training Platform

By Carl Straumsheim. Massive open online course platform Coursera on Wednesday announced the launch of a workforce development platform, Coursera for Business. The platform will offer many of the same courses found on Coursera's learner-facing platform, but "curated" to a company's training needs, according to the website. Read more...

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28 septembre 2016

Humans, the Latest MOOC Feature

By Carl Straumsheim. MIT experiments with instructor grading in massive open online courses as a way to expand teaching and learning opportunities for students and instructors. Read more...

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28 septembre 2016

Resources for Ethical Use of Student Data

By Carl Straumsheim. The organizers behind a conference on ethical use of student data this morning launched a web portal with papers and other resources exploring how data could be used in research about learning, applied to improve instruction and represented to reflect student accomplishments. Read more...

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28 septembre 2016

Study: Open Educational Resources and Market Growth

By Carl Straumsheim. Open educational resources could make up 12 percent of the market for textbooks and other course materials and 19 percent of supplemental materials within five years, according to a survey of OER users, traditional textbook users and industry experts conducted by Cengage Learning. Read more...

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28 septembre 2016

Somebody Else's Problem

By Carl Straumsheim. Report finds initiative fatigue and a lack of accountability, among other obstacles, are preventing colleges from improving student outcomes. Read more...

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28 septembre 2016

Quality Matters Launches Certificate Program

By Carl Straumsheim. Quality Matters, which offers quality assurance programs for online courses, is this fall expanding into online teaching certification. The organization has begun offering seven one- to two-week workshops that, when completed, award participants a Teaching Online Certificate attesting to their skills as effective online instructors. Read more...

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28 septembre 2016

Wiley Acquires Recruitment Technology Start-Up Ranku

By Carl Straumsheim. Publisher John Wiley & Sons has acquired Ranku, an ed-tech start-up that helps colleges convert web traffic into applications. Read more...

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28 septembre 2016

MicroMasters on a Global Scale

By Carl Straumsheim. MOOC-based master's degree initiative expands to more than a dozen universities. Will learners opt to enroll or settle for a certificate. Read more...

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