06/21/2014
 “We hope to democratize and reimagine education so that anyone, anywhere, regardless of his or her social status or income, can access education,” explained Anant Agarwal, president of edX, the nonprofit enterprise founded by Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to offer courses online. In a
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06/12/2014
 Even if the heady attention of one-to-one tutorials is the stuff of Oxbridge dreams for most, personal attention from tutors who challenge students' thinking in small seminar groups is often cited as critical to the quality of learning in higher education, and integral to the value of a degree.
Now clos
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06/10/2014
 Wednesday was a momentous occasion for 2U, the cloud-based, software-as-a-service online learning platform that has become the darling of the online learning world. The company hit its 10,000th student -- and lest anyone forget, banners around its suburban Washington offices
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06/07/2014
 Almost three-quarters of students who enrolled in the first year of online classes under a joint Harvard-MIT initiative were from outside the United States, demonstrating the global reach and growing popularity of the large-scale open courses.
But only 5 percent of students wh
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06/03/2014
 Over the past few years, business school administrators — like other university officials — have been losing sleep over Massive Open Online Courses (or MOOCs), worrying that these low-cost digital alternatives will cannibalize their business model.
As elite business schools have started
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06/03/2014
 Massive open online courses are not currently cannibalizing tuition-based programs at top business schools, according to an enthusiastic report from the University of Pennsylvania. Rather, MOOCs could become a recruiting tool for tapping new pools of potential students.
Business schools that offe
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05/26/2014
 Tell us a bit about yourself.
My father was an educational entrepreneur who always encouraged me to take an active role in the family business. In 1975 we were living in Lebanon, but we were forced to flee when the country descended into civil war. We essentially became refugees i
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05/08/2014
 Ireland’s Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources Pat Rabbitte, TD, has launched a series of national ‘Switch On’ digital skills workshops, the first being in the Monaghan Education Centre in Monaghan Town.
The 30 workshops' focus are on how schools can take advan
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05/05/2014
 I teach at a residential liberal-arts college on the western side of Michigan, with about 3,300 students and 300 faculty members. Unique among the institutions in our regional consortium, and unusual among liberal-arts colleges in general, we have developed an entirely online summer pro
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05/01/2014
 Many of us have been closely following the 2U Semester Online story.The fact that the 2U and its partners have chosen not to continue the Semester Online program should not obscure the larger story about the growth of not-for-profit / for-profit partnerships in developing on
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05/01/2014
 The rise in e-Learning’s popularity isn’t showing any signs of slowing. In fact, judging by the following Top 10 eLearning statistics for 2014 article and infographic, the future of the e-Learning Industry is brighter than ever.
e-Learning has revolutionized th
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05/01/2014
 After more than two years in the cloud, Coursera’s massive open online courses will this summer make landfall at Dominican University of California, which will host the MOOC provider’s first Learning Hub at a U.S. institution.
Dominican is part of Coursera’s latest wave of hubs -- physica
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04/09/2014
 LEESBURG, Va. (April 9, 2014) — The National Institute for Automotive Service Excellence (ASE) has introduced an e-learning program called “Introduction to Automobile Service” (IAS).
The program — delivered exclusively online and consisting of four e-learning training modules and a separate
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04/09/2014
 When I first blogged about MOOCs about a year ago, they were causing significant consternation about the fate of education. This hasn’t stopped their exponential growth across business and academia. Harvard Business School has introduced its online learning system, HBX. California-based online
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04/08/2014
 The Government will continue its E-Learning Jamaica Project (e-LJam) in the 2014/15 fiscal year, boosted by an allocation of $1.2 billion, which has been set aside in the budget.
The project seeks to utilise Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) to improve in the q
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04/07/2014
 Lynda.com, the online education platform that raised its first and only round of $103 million about a year ago, is today announcing an acquisition that will further Lynda.com’s reach with developers and expand the kinds of services it can offer to users. It’s acquiring Compilr, a Halifax, C
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03/25/2014
 The massive open online course providers Coursera and edX made competing top-level executive announcements Monday afternoon: Wendy Cebula, former COO of Vistaprint, was named president of edX, while Richard C. Levin, the former president of Yale University, will join Coursera as the company’s new CEO.
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03/24/2014
 Harvard Business School formally announced Friday that it will enter the online education market, unveiling HBX, a new digital learning platform that will provide business-focused online courses for students and professionals not enrolled in the Business School
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03/10/2014
 Upon starting my position of Research Fellow at HarvardX, a University wide effort to use technology to transform teaching and learning on-camps and online, I soon realized that I had an unprecedented opportunity—in particular, as a researcher.
I had just finished lecturing for Stat 221, a co
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03/10/2014
 BERKELEY, Calif. -- A year after the Online Learning Summit was founded in Cambridge, Mass., attendees this weekend struggled to draw parallels to last year's event. The reason, they said, is that "everything has changed."
Top-ranking university officials and ed-tech company exec
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03/03/2014
 Shai Reshef is an Israeli-born entrepreneur who now lives in Pasadena, California. Although his master’s degree is in Chinese politics, he has made his name professionally in private education. He served as chairman and CEO of the Kidum Group, an Israeli test preparation which he
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02/19/2014
 The eLearning Guild has released the 2014 Global eLearning Salary & Compensation Report. Data obtained from Guild members shows that eLearning salaries worldwide decreased slightly from an average of $77,682 (USD) in 2013 to an average of $76,530 (USD) in 2014.
Australia, Canada, the U
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02/19/2014
 Surprising data from the first wave of massive open online courses show most students are male, educated and living in a developed country.
When the higher education sector pioneered massive open online courses (or Moocs, as they are more commonly known) it was heralded as an exci
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02/13/2014
 For all the online learning startups fighting for students, there’s no lack of interest by investors.
Latest example: The online “lifelong learning” startup Curious.com, which is announcing today that it has closed a $15 million Series B round of venture funding. This time it inclu
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02/12/2014
It seems that every time there is a revolution in how we communicate—from cheap postage in the 18th century to today’s social web—there are those who would apply the new technology to changing how we learn. Distance learning may not get a lot of respect, but it’s a venerable institution. Plus c
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02/05/2014
 Banning Massive Open Online Courses in countries under US sanctions is a travesty. These students need them the most.
Recently, Coursera, the online university course provider, began blocking students from Iran, Cuba and Sudan from using its services. Coursera, which boasts mo
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01/20/2014
Massive open online courses, or MOOCs, have been celebrated for their ability to give anyone with an Internet connection free access to classes at some of the best U.S. universities.For many who sign up for the courses, the experience is a
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01/20/2014
 Money is being pumped into Moocs – massive open online courses – but students may not have the stamina to make the experience worthwhile. "There are certainly Mooc junkies, who take them for no other reason than they're free and they like
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01/16/2014
This morning, Art History Professor Diana Kleiner will deliver her perennial lecture on Roman architecture to a crowd of Yale undergraduates. Meanwhile, 40,000 students from around the globe will tune in to a similar lecture from Kleiner via the online education platf
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01/14/2014
 Students can pursue the credential, which can help attorneys practice international law, from home. A master of laws in U.S. law can be a career game changer for attorneys outside of the United States.
By exposing international lawyers to
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