Noteworthy
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Money Models for MOOCs
BU Professors consider business models for MOOCs. Despite the massive media ink spilled over massive open online... More
MIT and on-line education
MIT President reflects on the impact of on-line education... Digital learning technologies present us with a... More
YouTube for MOOCs
Google is teaming up with edX to create a new site that EdX’s president compared... More
edX and Google join forces
EdX announced a partnership with Google to jointly develop the edX open source learning platform, More
Roundup of MOOC Stories
In its Fall issue, Harvard Magazine published an article that covers noteworthy developments (albeit Harvard-centric)... More
Answers for Seekers of MOOCs
Cathy N. Davidson, a Duke professor who studies learning in the digital age, answers questions... More
MOOC on badges
The Cooperative for Educational Technologies (Mozilla, Blackboard, and Sage Road Solutions) have joined forces to... More
MOOCs & K-12 Education
Open online courses offer the promise of education for everyone, but in K-12, their best... More
Engaging Faculty at U Texas
It’s somewhat rare for a university president to take so public a role in discussions... More
New Frontier of Study Online
The master's degree offered by the Georgia Institute of Technology through massive open online courses... More
For-Profits & Adaptive Learning
Broadly defined, adaptive learning is the use of data-driven tools to design coursework that responds... More
Udacity on MOOCs for Credit
Udacity provides context around the suspension of their pilot to offer MOOCs for credit at San... More
BU Today: The DLI Team
New Team Will Power BU’s Online Education Digital Learning Initiative: president’s council key recommendation 07.16.2013 By Rich... More
CETLI Report and Next Steps
TO: Boston University Faculty FROM: Robert A. Brown, President; Jean Morrison, University Provost DATE: July 15, 2013 SUBJECT:... More
MOOCs and the Future
A perspective from Cathy Davidson... Over and over, MOOC Mania is swamping lessons learned over the... More
Let edX Grow
Reacting too quickly to faculty concerns about edX while it is still in its infancy... More
Are we to blame for MOOCs?
Far from a radical innovation, MOOCs are simply the natural extension of trends that have... More
BU Joins Leading Online Course Platform edX
05.21.2013 By Rich Barlow (from BU Today) BU has joined edX, the Harvard-and-MIT-led online learning platform... More
It’s all about the platform!
One year after Harvard University and MIT launched edX, a $60 million initiative in which... More
BU Joins edX
EdX Expands xConsortium to Asia and Doubles in Size with Addition of 15 New Global... More
UC Develops Online Strategy
University of California undergraduates would have dozens of rigorous new online courses to choose from... More
Hard-Core MOOCers
If people who sit at their computers for tens of hours each week zapping virtual... More
Who is reckless?
Dismantling departments and replacing them with MOOCs would be “reckless.” But, in such a case, More
Higher Ed’s Creative Destruction
In the immortal words of economist Joseph Schumpeter, higher education is headed for “creative destruction,”... More
MOOC: Textbook or Course?
In popular discourse of MOOCs, two dominant analogies seem to have emerged in making sense... More
It’s MOOC or Die!
“It’s Mooc or die”, vice-chancellor of the University of Southampton, UK, has said, claiming that institutions... More
A Call for Openess
Harry Lewis, former Dean of Students at Harvard, expresses a preference "for Harvard's courses to... More
A Different Take on MOOCs
A different take on MOOCs and why they are not as transformative as Wall Street... More
Duke and 2U
Updates from Duke on its engagement (now broken) with 2U... Provost Peter Lange discussed online education... More
2U Unraveling?
Three top-tier universities have backed away from a partnership with their peers and the company... More
MOOC Ambivalence at Harvard
Ambivalence about MOOCs, which has increasingly been voiced on campuses across the country, is also... More
Harvard Reflects on MOOCs
Even at Harvard University, which has been a leading promoter of massive open online courses, More
Yale joins Coursera
Yale announced that it would soon offer MOOCs through Coursera, the Silicon Valley-based company. Yale... More
Business Education Revolution?
Online educational technology offers opportunities rather than threats. And research on the effects of disruptive... More
Beyond MOOCs
The Academic Journey: Beyond MOOCS We're concerned that the debate of educational technology starts and stops... More
The MOOC Controversy
It's been less than three years since MOOCs entered the public discourse, but the online... More
MOOCs and Incumbents
These kind of changes, where incumbent providers sneer about inferior products while the new technology... More
Laptop U
The New Yorker asks: "Has the future of college moved online?" [Read More]
GaTech offers Online MS
Starting in the fall, the Georgia Institute of Technology, together with AT&T and Udacity, an... More
GaTech+AT&T+Udacity=Online MS
A Top Ten master’s degree in computer science at a very affordable cost from Georgia... More
2nd Generation MOOCs
Build a MOOC because you are excited to innovate, not because you are feeling pressured... More
Harvard debates MOOCs
Ambivalence about MOOCs, which has increasingly been voiced on campuses across the country, is also... More
MOOCs and Libraries
MOOCs are bringing unprecedented challenges and opportunities to both kinds of libraries already, and they’re... More
Survey of MOOC Profs
The survey, conducted by The Chronicle, attempted to reach every professor who has taught a... More
MOOCs for Credit
In what could be a major step toward bridging the gap between massive open online... More
On the value of college credit
An interesting perspective on the "value" that we attribute to taking (and paying for) college... More
MOOCs as textbook outlets?
Interesting ways for publishers to leverage MOOCs (and vice versa)... When a course is finished, More
Big Bad MOOC? Not!
A response from a Philosophy professor to the opposition by faculty at San Jose State... More
Online Teaching and COI
Taking into consideration the spread of online education and its founding partnership with MOOC provider Coursera, More
Publishers & MOOCs
Heather Ruland Staines of SIPX explained why publishers should care about MOOCs (massive open online... More
