06/13/2013
 Gunnar Counselman, an adjunct fellow at the Christensen Institute and the CEO of Fidelis Education, an enterprise platform for personalized learning, and I coauthored this piece.“There are a few moments in my life I will never forget. Like the moment I proposed to my wife, Petra. … Today is one
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06/10/2013
 Rarely a day goes by when MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) are not in the news. There is no hotter topic of conversation in education technology today. Journalists are asking “has the future of college moved online?” While many think that MOOCs are the future of higher education in America and are
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05/28/2013
 Amidst live-streamed commencement ceremonies and webcasted graduation speeches, the debate over online education comes up more often than usual. Learning remotely through educational resources associated with top universities – Udacity, Coursera, and edX among the leading providers – has become v
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05/18/2013
 Canada has agreed to help Caribbean youth to gain greater access to post-secondary education through a distance learning partnership with the University of the West Indies (UWI).
Minister of State of Foreign Affairs (Americas and Consular Affairs) Diane Ablonczy, who is on a seven-day, seven-countr
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05/16/2013
 We hear more and more talk about how the traditional model of business schools will be annihilated by the disruptive innovation of online education, so-called MOOCs (massive open online courses). An increasing number of voices can be heard to proclaim that business schools with their lectures and stud
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05/09/2013
 Southern New Hampshire University’s quaint red-brick New England campus is home to 2,750 undergraduates, making it the size of some high schools. A casual visitor would never suspect that another 25,000 students are also enrolled online. That’s roughly how many are in the bachelor’s prog
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05/03/2013
 What do you know about massive open online social impact?
When Rajan Kumar signed up to take “Foundations of Business Strategy” on Coursera last month, he never expected to get feedback on his own company’s business operations. But within a few weeks, the biotechnology entrepreneur had recr
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03/30/2013
 MOOCs or Massively Open On-Line Courses is a new development to leverage technology to deliver education to large numbers (thousands to millions) of people. Khan Academy is similar in that it delivers education over the Internet but slightly different in that it is a one-to-one engagement of thousand
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03/26/2013
 Teenage applicants from as far afield as India and Mongolia are catching western colleges’ attention by taking so-called “massive online open courses” designed for older students.
Schoolchildren taking courses on their own initiative already account for about 5 per cent of the 800,000 s
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03/26/2013
 Cory Broussard can safely say he is unlike almost any other MBA student. An engineer for Shell Oil (RDSA), Broussard participates in the MBA@UNC online program from a cubicle on the company’s Mars Tension-Leg Platform, which is a permanent offshore oil drilling and production platform 130 miles southwe
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03/21/2013
 Google‘s Chromebook — and by extension Chrome OS — is being adopted by our education system at a brisk pace. As of February 2013 more than 2000 districts in the United States have deployed Chromebooks to their students and faculty. I’ve reported on Chromebooks before, but I wanted to take a de
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03/21/2013
 Listening to Sal Khan, founder of the Khan Academy, speak on stage to several hundred attendees at the 5th Anniversary Gala last week for Innosight Institute—the non-profit that I co-founded—I thought about how Clayton Christensen and I have speculated for some time that the long-term future of
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03/12/2013
 A revolution is coming to U.S. higher education, one that will sweep away an archaic business model, erase the value of many venerable brands, and enhance the brands of new entrants and nimble incumbents. It will be a tough time for many U.S. colleges and universities bu
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02/26/2013
 Online education startup Thinkful has raised $1 million in seed financing from Peter Thiel‘s FF Angel, RRE Ventures and Quotidian Ventures.
Founded in 2012, Thinkful is designed to provide personalized online learning for people. It’s starting with a course on front-end web development but
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02/20/2013
 Lean Startup in Theory
Any entrepreneur considering starting his or her own business, if not aware already, should understand at the very least the basic premise of the lean startup methodology. Lean startup says that a business can produce better result
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02/18/2013
 Distance learning programmes are handing out iPads to help students stay on course.
Students on the University of Leicester's new distance learning MSc in security, conflict and international development face more challenges than the average distance learner. For example, some students migh
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02/15/2013
 Why has Oxford Brookes topped the charts of UK universities teaching students abroad? It's all down to a fruitful collaboration with accountants, explains vice-chancellor Janet Beer.
A partnership between Oxford Brookes University and the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (Acca) he
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01/28/2013
 Although it has given rise to jokes about cows and an outfielder for the 1986 New York Mets, MOOC is actually an acronym for Massive Open Online Courses. Depending on whom you ask, they point the way to the future of higher education, the end of higher education as we know it, both, or neither.
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01/23/2013
 Free online college classes known as “massive open online courses,” or MOOCs, have made another big stride toward changing the model for higher education. Dozens of public universities are planning to offer introductory MOOCs for credit to anyone with an internet connection around the world, ac
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12/14/2012
 Elite institutions will team up with the Open University to offer free internet courses through FutureLearn, a new company that will rival US programmes Coursera and edX.
Eleven top UK universities are joining the Open University to launch free internet courses, in a bid to catch up with the
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11/16/2012
 Despite recent advances being made in education technology, right now students actually have dwindling options when it comes to higher education. Between the decline of education budgets and rising tuition, there seem to be fewer opportunities and more obstacles for students to complete a degree program.
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11/15/2012
 The government spends millions of dollars and countless hours trying to fix our stumbling education system, progress is slow, and lasting change seems unlikely. Higher education is expensive, and only getting more so.
Many students face barriers to getting the education they really want — but toda
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11/13/2012
 Online college-level education is booming, with Silicon Valley’s Coursera and its 1.8 million enrollees leading the way. Early versions haven’t provided transferable college credit at real-world universities. But Courera hopes to eliminate that gap — through the unusual method of having studen
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11/05/2012
 Still think college degrees earned online are universally cheaper and less esteemed in the job market than traditional ones? In the case of graduate degrees offered by universities collaborating with a company called 2U, you’d be dead wrong.
Karla Pasos paid $34,000 tuition—the same as her
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11/02/2012
 The headquarters of what has rapidly become the largest school in the world, at 10 million students strong, is stuffed into a few large communal rooms in a decaying 1960s office building hard by the commuter rail tracks in Mountain View, Calif. Despite the cramped, dowdy circumstances, youthful optimism
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10/31/2012
 Udacity, a pioneer of free online education discussed in recent Crotty posts, yesterday announced a partnership with translation platform Amara to translate and subtitle more than 5,000 of its course videos, according to an Amara press release. It sounds very inside baseball, but the partnership
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10/23/2012
 Distance learning is increasingly popular and one of the reasons is the growing number of free courses being offered online.
Daniel Conn left school at 18 and started work as an administrator for Mercedes-Benz near his home in Brighton. He soon wished he hadn't spurned the idea of going to unive
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10/09/2012
 The education system in India has come a long way of evolution – from the vedic days dating back to around 1700 BC to today’s computer age and e-learning. Throughout, Indian tradition has always accorded special importance to education.
The Vedic Tradition
The Vedas were the main repo
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09/19/2012
 If you’re looking to develop new skills for work or simply learn for the sake of learning, you’ll have plenty of options as more and more universities are making their courses available online, for free. Online education platform Coursera has added 17 new universities to its ranks, doubling
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09/19/2012
 Offerings of free online courses from top universities are expanding rapidly. The classes, known as “massive open online courses,” or MOOCs, are free for anyone who has an internet connection. They are opening up the high-priced world of study at some of the world’s top colleges and universities and
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