04/08/2014

No longer can students sit passively and imbibe information – today's 'blended learning' approach demands engagement and ideas.

The best lecture I ever went to saw an inspirational academic – Professor David Ian Rabey; credit where credit's due – cracking an egg over his
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03/14/2014

From keyboards that recognise your typing style to university honour codes – course providers are finding new ways to stop plagiarism among students.

Hoping your big sister will help you out with your latest assignment? If you're studying online with Coursera, you'd bett
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02/21/2014

Technology has changed the way people learn and access education, particularly languages. But can you successfully master a language only using online tools?

"There are more people actively learning a language through DuoLingo than in the entire US public school system," s
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02/13/2014

What was the one moment or experience that ultimately gave rise to Connexions?

In 1999, I wanted to create a book for the electrical engineering course I was teaching on Signals and Systems.  I was approached by numerous publishers but I had one condition: the book should be made available elec
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12/20/2013

After five months of studying, my tenure as an online student is officially over.I took my final tests last week and did well enough to earn a B in my personal finance class. My final project – a 10-year financial plan – helped me get a better sense of what I shou
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12/13/2013

My professor was clear from day one that we would need weeks – not days – to complete the final for our online personal finance class. It's not hard to see why, as the capstone project was a hefty one: a 10-year financial plan outlining our career outlook, retirement goal
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12/06/2013

It took an urgent email from my instructor earlier this week to make me realize that my online personal finance class was quickly coming to a close.Our final project was due in two weeks, she wrote. We should all be in high gear, well on our way to finishing.

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11/20/2013

Memrise is an online learning tool that uses images and science to try and make learning easy and fun. Here, Ed Cooke co-founder (and a 'grand master of memory') talks to Jemima Kiss about improving the efficiency of the brain, and why - in the internet age - people are lookin
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11/15/2013

Forgive me for boasting, but I think I'm getting the hang of online learning. I turned in my first personal finance-related case study three days ago – on time! – and earned 50 points out of 50 on the assignment. The achievement came
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11/14/2013

As noted in my pieces on MITx, edX, Udacity and other Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) platforms,  online education is driving today’s higher education revolution. Though the flurry of attention around MOOCs may lead one to conclude that distance learn
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