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Distance Education Expanding in Canada
New report shows that Canadian institutions offer lots of online courses, but say they lack adequate resources for their growing programs.
Assuring Online Course Quality
Seton Hill University takes a collaborative campuswide approach to developing, refining and assessing distance education classes.
Outsourcing Career Skills Training
More students and faculty members at institutions as varied as Harvard University and community colleges are using LinkedIn's LyndaCampus to help students hone workplace competencies instructors may not have time to teach.
Competing Models Among OPM Providers
Fee-for-service models offered by some online program management providers gain some traction, but experts say they won’t overtake revenue-share deals.
Opinion
The Ostrich and the Trend
A recent blog post was wrong about massive open online courses, Arshad Ahmad and Barbara Oakley write. MOOCs aren't the promised panacea, but they are neither dangerous nor dead.
Controversial Instructor Allowed to Teach Online
As reported by Inside Higher Ed, Drexel University, which this month placed a controversial professor on leave and barred him...
The Newest Online Institution? Woz U
Academic program from Apple's co-founder is the latest entrant in the emerging competition to create faster pathways to technical jobs.
Systemwide Approaches to Online Programs
Universities employ a variety of strategies -- centralized, decentralized or both -- as they try to meet the distance education needs of their campuses.