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Colleges offer nearly $400M to Chicago students
CHICAGO: Colleges offer nearly $400M to Chicago students - MiamiHerald.com: "College scholarships totaling nearly $400 million have been offered to high school students who attended Chicago Public Schools. Mayor Rahm Emanuel and schools chief Barbara Byrd-Bennett announced the amount Thursday. The school district began tracking scholarship offers in 2004 and the total has grown every year. School district officials say that growth results from a coordinated effort to let students know about scholarship opportunities"
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MOOCs terrify traditional universities
Higher education: The attack of the MOOCs | The Economist: " . . . EdX, a non-profit MOOC provider founded in May 2012 by Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and backed with $60m of their money, is now a consortium of 28 institutions, the most recent joiner being the Indian Institute of Technology in Mumbai. Led by the Open University, which pioneered distance-learning in the 1970s, FutureLearn, a consortium of 21 British, one Irish and one Australian university, plus other educational bodies, will start offering MOOCs later this year. But Oxford and Cambridge remain aloof, refusing to join what a senior Oxford figure fears may be a “lemming-like rush” into MOOCs.
On July 10th Coursera said it had raised another $43m in venture capital, on top of the $22m it banked last year. . . ."
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On July 10th Coursera said it had raised another $43m in venture capital, on top of the $22m it banked last year. . . ."
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Data from edX's first course offer preliminary insights into online learning
Data from edX's first course offer preliminary insights into online learning
MIT News
The course, the first massive open online course (MOOC) offered by MITx — and also the inaugural offering from edX, the online-learning partnership later founded by MIT and Harvard University — sparked worldwide interest, along with a large amount of ...(read more at link above)
MIT News
The course, the first massive open online course (MOOC) offered by MITx — and also the inaugural offering from edX, the online-learning partnership later founded by MIT and Harvard University — sparked worldwide interest, along with a large amount of ...(read more at link above)
Coursera to offer MOOCs for teachers
Coursera to offer MOOCs for teachers
Washington Post (blog)
The Washington Post. The online education platform Coursera this week announced a new series of free courses to help elementary and secondary teachers improve their technique, with offerings from teaching experts at premier museums and universities ..." (read more at link above)
Washington Post (blog)
The Washington Post. The online education platform Coursera this week announced a new series of free courses to help elementary and secondary teachers improve their technique, with offerings from teaching experts at premier museums and universities ..." (read more at link above)
Online universities: time for teachers to join the revolution
Online universities: it's time for teachers to join the revolution
The Guardian
... Mooc providers do to change education. Research is another. EdX and its partner universities are using the data we collect throughout a class to research how students learn most effectively, and then apply that knowledge to both online learning and ...
The Guardian
... Mooc providers do to change education. Research is another. EdX and its partner universities are using the data we collect throughout a class to research how students learn most effectively, and then apply that knowledge to both online learning and ...
Online Learning's Potential for the Digital Economy
Gauging Online Learning's Potential for the Digital Economy
Wall Street Journal (blog)
With college and universities demanding higher tuition and students facing reduced government funding, Guest Columnist Irving Wladawsky-Berger sees the rising field of online learning as an affordable and effective way to educate students for a ...(read more at link above)
Wall Street Journal (blog)
With college and universities demanding higher tuition and students facing reduced government funding, Guest Columnist Irving Wladawsky-Berger sees the rising field of online learning as an affordable and effective way to educate students for a ...(read more at link above)
Third of student loan borrowers never earn degree
Third of student loan borrowers never earned degree - CBS News: "One out of every five adults 20 years of age or older owe money on student loans, and more than half of them are worried about this debt, according to a new study by the Urban Institute. The exact figures for American adults: 19.6 percent have student loans and 57 percent are concerned about repayment. A third of the debtors are not college graduates . . ."
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edX and Stanford team up
'Linux of online learning' gets stronger: edX and Stanford team up to build ...
GigaOM
In its mission to become the “Linux of online learning,” edX just got a powerful new partner. On Wednesday, the Harvard and MIT-backed non-profit is set to announce that it's teaming up with Stanford to collaboratively develop the open-source edX platform.
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GigaOM
In its mission to become the “Linux of online learning,” edX just got a powerful new partner. On Wednesday, the Harvard and MIT-backed non-profit is set to announce that it's teaming up with Stanford to collaboratively develop the open-source edX platform.
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Immoral Student Loans
Glenn Harlan Reynolds: What's Really 'Immoral' About Student Loans - WSJ.com: "According to an extensive 2012 analysis by the Associated Press of college graduates 25 and younger, 50% are either unemployed or in jobs that don't require a college degree. Then there are the large numbers who don't graduate at all. According to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center, more than 40% of full-time students at four-year institutions fail to graduate within six years. The National Center for Education Statistics reports that almost 75% of community-college students fail to graduate within three years. Those students don't have degrees, but they often still have debt."
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Education Giant Pearson Adapts To Digital Learning
Education Giant Pearson Adapts To Digital Learning
InformationWeek
"[They] need flexibility … so access becomes more online and blended." Similarly, although Hitchcock isn't sure that massive open online courses (MOOCs) will transform education, they have had the effect of "shining a light on online learning, access ...
InformationWeek
"[They] need flexibility … so access becomes more online and blended." Similarly, although Hitchcock isn't sure that massive open online courses (MOOCs) will transform education, they have had the effect of "shining a light on online learning, access ...
EdX Goes Open Source To Woo MOOC Developers
EdX Goes Open Source To Woo MOOC Developers
InformationWeek SMB (blog)
Justin Reich, an education technology researcher who last week joined HarvardX, Harvard's edXgroup, said in an email that he had done so in part because of edX's open-source direction. "Borrowing from SJ Klein, we have to decide as a society whether ...
Knewton partners with education publishing giant to bring online learning to ...
VentureBeat
The company develops online learning tools that can be adapted to each learner's individual needs, whether it's in K12, higher education, or professional development. The technology works by dividing lessons into building blocks ... an ex-venture ...
School's Out, But Learning Goes On(line) With The Internet
Imperial Valley News
Imperial, California (NAPSI) - For many schoolchildren, summertime means days of fun in the sun, family road trips and visits from the ice cream truck. But many parents don't realize that summer can also mean learning loss. Studies have found that ...
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InformationWeek SMB (blog)
Justin Reich, an education technology researcher who last week joined HarvardX, Harvard's edXgroup, said in an email that he had done so in part because of edX's open-source direction. "Borrowing from SJ Klein, we have to decide as a society whether ...
Knewton partners with education publishing giant to bring online learning to ...
VentureBeat
The company develops online learning tools that can be adapted to each learner's individual needs, whether it's in K12, higher education, or professional development. The technology works by dividing lessons into building blocks ... an ex-venture ...
School's Out, But Learning Goes On(line) With The Internet
Imperial Valley News
Imperial, California (NAPSI) - For many schoolchildren, summertime means days of fun in the sun, family road trips and visits from the ice cream truck. But many parents don't realize that summer can also mean learning loss. Studies have found that ...
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edX-IMF Online Link
edX-IMF Online Link
Harvard Magazine
edX—the Harvard-MIT online learning venture for higher-education institutions—on June 19 announced that its technology platform would be used for the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) training courses in macroeconomics and finance. The IMF will not ...
Harvard Magazine
edX—the Harvard-MIT online learning venture for higher-education institutions—on June 19 announced that its technology platform would be used for the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) training courses in macroeconomics and finance. The IMF will not ...
Online Classes Fuel a Campus Debate
Online Classes Fuel a Campus Debate
New York Times
Daphne Koller, the Stanford computer science professor who is a founder of Coursera, said she thought the C.I.C. paper represented an exploratory discussion driven by anxieties about how online education would change higher education. Coursera's ...
New York Times
Daphne Koller, the Stanford computer science professor who is a founder of Coursera, said she thought the C.I.C. paper represented an exploratory discussion driven by anxieties about how online education would change higher education. Coursera's ...
More UK schools receive online learning boost
More UK schools receive online learning boost
Virtual College
More UK schools receive online learning boost. Aerohive Networks is boosting the role of technology in education by providing 50 more schools in the UK with Wi-Fi and cloud-enabled enterprise networking services. The company - which is already ...
Virtual College
More UK schools receive online learning boost. Aerohive Networks is boosting the role of technology in education by providing 50 more schools in the UK with Wi-Fi and cloud-enabled enterprise networking services. The company - which is already ...
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