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17 mai 2015

UK’s Most Popular MOOC

The British Council’s Exploring English MOOC has so far received more sign-ups than any other online course on the FutureLearn platform. Chris Cavey, Open Learning Manager at the British Council, tells us the secret to its success. The British Council has been involved in English language teaching for more than 70 years and has very successful websites for learners and teachers that attract around five million users a month, so we already have a large online audience. More...

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17 mai 2015

The Online Paradox at Community Colleges

By The Hechinger Report. Two weeks ago I wrote about the overwhelming research evidence that community college students aren't doing as well in online classes as they are in face-to-face traditional classes. Students are failing in higher numbers and getting lower grades. That remains true, but it isn't the whole story. More...

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17 mai 2015

The Future Of An Illusion: The Higher-Ed 'Funding Cuts' Myth

By Tom Lindsay. For years now, students, parents, and taxpayers have worried over college-tuition hyperinflation and its concomitant, massive student-loan debt. And for good reason. Over the past quarter-century, average tuition prices have increased 440 percent—far more than the Consumer Price Index and even health-care costs over the same period. More...

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17 mai 2015

Obama Administration Improperly Denies Student Loan Debt Relief

By Shahien Nasiripour. Federal law allows students who were defrauded by their colleges into taking out federal student loans to have their debts forgiven. The Obama administration has said repeatedly it will ensure aggrieved borrowers get this form of relief, a commitment that Education Undersecretary Ted Mitchell reiterated this week following the bankruptcy filing of troubled for-profit school operator Corinthian Colleges Inc. More...

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17 mai 2015

Coursera CEO: Colleges will survive the online education revolution

By John A. Byrne. After informing an investor of his admiration for a relatively new Silicon Valley startup, Coursera, the online learning platform and advocate of massive open online courses (MOOCs), Levin found himself speaking with founders Daphne Koller and Andrew Ng. Initially signed up to be a part-time advisor, Levin was soon offered the larger role of CEO, which he took on in April 2014. More...

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17 mai 2015

After Corinthian, two more for-profit college chains announce closings

By Claire Zillman. One reason? The Obama administration’s increased regulation of the industry.
For the for-profit college industry, the knocks just keep coming.
Corinthian Colleges, once one of the nation’s largest for-profit chains, grabbed headlines late last month when it announced it would close its remaining 28 campuses, displacing roughly 16,000 students. More...

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17 mai 2015

Why the news on high college costs is starting to get (a little) better

By Amanda Paulson. College costs at public universities, which skyrocketed during the recession, are now starting to slow down. But states still have a long way to go rein in tuition.
After years of attention to spiraling and out-of-control college costs, some of the more recent news shows movement in the other direction. More...

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17 mai 2015

How Campus Rape Became a National Scandal

By Sonja Sharp. It's not even noon, and already Zoe Ridolfi-Starr looks worn. The self-identified sexual assault survivor and lead complainant in a federal case against New York's Columbia University for its alleged mishandling of sexual violence hurries to join a small clutch of fellow activists in the school's central quad for a protest—part of April's national Carry That Weight Together event—that never quite forms. More...

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17 mai 2015

States cut higher education spending per student

By Rebecca Shabad. Most states are spending less per student at public higher education institutions now than they did before the recession, according to a report released Wednesday by the liberal-leaning Center for Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP).
Forty-seven states are spending less on each student than they did before 2008. The only states not spending less are Alaska, North Dakota and Wyoming, the 26-page report said. More...

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17 mai 2015

UMass building boom could be coming to end

By Matt Murphy. The building boom across all five University of Massachusetts campuses over the past decade could be coming to an end, according to the outgoing president, as the university approaches its debt limit and will be forced to slow down building growth unless the state assumes some of its debt. More...

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