Disruptive Change in Higher Education (Educause 2012) - 0 views
Master's Degree Is New Frontier of Study Online - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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Millions of dollars are poured in this project. As the article states, tuition could creep to normal levels once the initial money runs out. Still, it's an interesting experiment.
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What the article doesn't mention is this, lifted from another recent article in Chronicles: But that plan, too, could encounter institutional challenges. Benjamin Flowers, chair of the university's graduate curriculum committee, says he and his colleagues have "at no point been given, to review, any written proposal for any new graduate degree program." Officials seem to have circumvented the committee by casting the Udacity partnership as a "modification" of an existing computer-science master's program, says Mr. Flowers. He says his committee is not done with the Udacity proposal, and may raise the issue in the university's faculty senate when the body reconvenes this fall.
MOOCs and The Change of Higher Education - 2 views
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A balanced search for a sustainable MOOC business model: "The reality is that online solutions are still underused by higher education, but we are left to wait for genuine innovation that is capable to provide alternatives in line with academic rigour, quality assurance and student needs in higher education. Students cannot be engaged by simple conversions of boring lectures into online videos that are even more boring, affected by clunky and poorly designed technological solutions and rigid platforms for discussions and 'forums'."
Tuesday | EDUCAUSE.edu - 2 views
EDUCAUSE Top-10 IT Issues 2013 - 1 views
elearnspace › What's next for educational software? - 0 views
Dino 101 registration is now open - News & Events - University of Alberta - 0 views
Summary of Educause Sprint (⅓) -- Beyond MOOCs: IT as a force of change - 1 views
What you need to know about MOOCs - 0 views
MOOCs and Beyond - 0 views
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