04/20/2012

As prospective students face up to the increased cost of higher education, universities have become keenly aware of the need to offer cheaper options. Higher education providers are, as a result, increasingly looking to develop novel, workplace-relevant distance learning versions of
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03/26/2012

Lecturer James Derounian explores the loneliness of the long distance learning student and celebrates their commitment, hard work and long hours.

The vast majority of my students at University of Gloucestershire are part-time, mature, distance learners. We now have more than 1,0
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02/29/2012

A month has passed since the first-ever national Digital Learning Day. Given the excitement generated from teachers and others tuning in to the National Town Hall meeting and given today’s National Leadership Summit on Online Learning up on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. that iNAC
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02/03/2012

Distance learning has come far since the days of late-night TV lectures. We speak to students who have turned their lives around from the comfort of their homes

Andrea Goldshaw gets up at 5am, studies for three hours and then goes to work. She is in the second year of a law c
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01/10/2012

Psst, you want to know what academics talk about these days? Not research. Not annoying students. Not even exceptional students. No, they talk about online education. And for economists like myself, they talk about it a lot.

The reason is that we economist academics know which
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12/07/2011

An increasing number of advocates for online learning have come out in favor of mandating that states require students take at least one college- or career-prep course online to earn a high school diploma. Digital Learning Now!, a national campaign chaired by former Governors Jeb Bush and
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12/02/2011

For the past nine years the Sloan Consortium and the Babson Survey Research Group have taken a look at the state of online learning in the United States. The 2011 survey reveals that the number of students learning online has now surpassed six million, with nearly one-third of all stu
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11/11/2011

The number of college students enrolled in at least one online course increased for the ninth straight year, according to the Babson Survey Research Group's annual survey of more than 2,500 colleges and universities—including both nonprofit and for-profit institutions.

The stud
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 10/05/2011

It isn’t unusual for an alumnus to give a gift to the college or university he or she graduated from. Lots of people do it. Far fewer online students, however, give back to their institutions. That makes me the exception that proves the rule.

A retired businessman from Ar
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09/03/2011

Call it better learning through technology -- and cheaper.

As college and university classrooms around the country fill with students facing mind-numbing tuition, free online classes are filling up too -- and their rising number threatens to destroy the current model that has
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