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Understanding the changing dynamics of the big players in online learning is important - but I fear that these numbers may dissuade some institutions from exploring distance education

An alternative way to think about online learning is not about scale - or even really about revenue generation - but about specialization.

Online programs can be a vehicle to highlight differentiation. What school, department, program, or area of research does your school do better than anybody else? What degree programs are you most proud? What areas of teaching and knowledge creation have you build a critical mass of faculty?

Using the platform, she employed 27 intelligent agents, automated notifications based on specific course performance criteria. The agents allow Dr Broadbent and her team to monitor student performance in ways previously not possible.

f they have done really well or if they are struggling they get sent an email

You can personalise it and put their name in and lots of students think that I have personally sat down and written them an email at that point in time, which is really great

First, the courses will be taught entirely online—an option that Southern Methodist has never before offered to undergraduates.

taught by professors at other universities

ourses, offered through the online-education company 2U, will come from a consortium of colleges participating in 2U’s Semester Online program

“Why are we doing e-learning?”  Is it to increase tuition revenue?  Decrease costs? Create greater access? Allow greater flexibility for our students? Experiment with new pedagogical approaches to teaching and learning, so as to better educate a different generation of students? All of the above?

ultimately the senior no-wake proponents on campus will delay and/or sabotage any meaningful e-learning strategy.

all must understand the risks of NOT advancing one.

growing recognition that design is not simply about making products attractive

easier to use, fit better into the flow of people’s lives, suit the needs of a broader range of end-users, increase productivity, and even influence emotions (which in turn can influence cognition).

digital higher education – both its software and content – has managed to remain untouched by good design.

The Department took those suggestions, and will be providing institutions with greater regulatory flexibility to design and test new approaches to student financial aid designed to meet the need of these students through several new experiments that will: Enable students to earn federal student aid based on how much they learn, rather than the amount of time they spend in class by providing federal aid to students enrolled in self-paced competency-based education programs. Provide flexibility for an institution to provide a mix of direct assessment coursework and credit hour coursework in the same program. Allow the use of federal student aid to pay for prior learning assessments, which can allow students—including returning adults or veterans—to decrease their time to get a degree.

Institutions that apply for and are granted these limited waivers would be able to have more flexibility over a portion of their federal student aid in order to implement experiments suggested by colleges, universities and the higher education community. Applications for the new experiments will be due in late September

Department is also announcing today that it will collaborate with the Department of Labor to develop a $25 million grant competition for an Online Skills Academy to support the development of a platform to enable high-quality, free or low-cost pathways to degrees, certificates, or other employer-recognized credentials