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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09/17/2012
 There is an eminent revolution about to happen in the online education sector. Although initiatives by MIT, Harvard and other leading universities such as Coursera, Edx, Udacity are generating a lot of of buzz, I strongly believe it will be startups led by young students themselves rather than old
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09/10/2012
 For those of us with a constant thirst for education, Stanford University is currently offering online courses this Fall – for free. According to the latest Stanford Report, 16 total courses will be available, with exciting subjects like Advanced Entrepreneurship, A Crash Course on Creativity, Human
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09/07/2012
 An intriguing story in The New York Times today underlines the way free “massive open online courses,” known as MOOCs, are beginning to change the model of higher education in the U.S. Yesterday Colorado State University’s Global Campus, an online university aimed at working adults, announced
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09/06/2012
 In the past year, Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) have emerged to be a major trend in the education space, witnessed by the rapid takeoff of online universities such as Coursera, Udacity, and EdX. Millions of online learners from all over the world are now studying science, engineering, and humaniti
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08/30/2012
 Technology in the classroom is not about putting a computer on everybody’s desk anymore. It’s about getting the right software so students can absorb the information universities and schools are teaching.
Given all the high-tech help available, increasingly students may find it tough to explai
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08/09/2012
One million students have signed up for college-level classes being offered online by California-based Coursera — and most of them aren’t in the United States. A newly released list of Coursera’s geographic reach shows that non-U.S. signups account for 61.5% of Coursera’s enrollment, with Br
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07/26/2012
 With the troubled economy, many people are facing unemployment or looking for a way to learn new skills to make themselves more appealing on the job market. For some, this means pursuing an advanced education, whether through a traditional university or an online college.
The traditional model
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07/24/2012
 In the scramble to stake out a leadership role in the world of online education, the University of California, Berkeley, is announcing on Tuesday that it is joining edX, the free nonprofit online learning venture founded by Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Berkeley will be of
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07/22/2012
 Whether you’re looking to change lost your job, adding new skills is often a key to making a transition. But heading back for a master’s degree is not really what most of us need at this stage in our boomerlicious lives. It’s too expensive and time-consuming.
There are, however, some grea
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07/17/2012
 In the New York Times story today about the dramatic expansion of online higher education venture Coursera, co-founder Daphne Koller is quoted as saying that the year-old company is not planning to offer degrees. But the more I read about Coursera and other outfits that offer free massive open onlin
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