This from TechCrunch. There are a lot of smart minds buzzing around “innovation” in the “higher education space.” In what’s being called the post-MOOC era,
Author: Dan Ryan
I've been an Academic Program Director at MinervaProject.com, a professor at University of Toronto, University of Southern California, and Mills College teaching things like human centered design, computational thinking, modeling for policy sciences, and social theory. My current mission is to figure out how to reorganize higher education and exploit technology so that we can teach twice as many twice as well twice as easily.
Two Years of College for "Free": A Trend?
Smart four year colleges will start planning now to be coordinating with this phenomenon. Oregon Will Become Second State to Offer Free Community CollegeLawmakers approve
New DropBox Feature Might Make Grading Easier
DropBox has introduced a COMMENTS feature that lets you look at a shared file in your browser (Microsoft office docs and PDFs all seem to
ASU and EdX offering Freshman Year Online
ASU will offer a freshman year program – all online – that will likely be fully transferrable and will cost around $6000. This latest iteration
And then there were 46
Sweet Briar College in Virginia announced it is closing. According to its Wikipedia entry, it had an endowment of $88 million, academic staff of 64
Blended Course Design MOOC
UCF is offering the fourth iteration of BlendKit – an open, online course for those interested in blended learning course design, sponsored by ELI and
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