Submitted by Robert Ubell on April 10, 2019 - 3:00am
Online is a crucial path for many underrepresented students and should expand. But if colleges don’t understand how virtual students differ from their residential peers and support them with robust online student services, Robert Ubell writes, they will miss the mark.
Negotiators reached consensus on issues such as "regular and substantive" interaction and state authorization. Experts on online learning say the new rules will provide needed clarifications, but advocates for students worry about potential abuses.
Creating a system for developing and revamping online courses can be challenging -- but is increasingly essential -- for institutions with growing programs.
Idaho's largest state university has introduced a new reduced-price tuition model, geared toward rural adults, for two of its online programs: students subscribe for a year then pay automatically once a month.
Submitted by Doug Lederman on April 3, 2019 - 3:00am
Among the topics: expanding database of digital credentials; why metrics matter; congressional questions on short-term Pell; NSF explores career trajectories.
OpenStax -- Rice University's nonprofit initiative for affordable, openly licensed textbooks -- has opened applications for its second round of institutional partnerships.
The University of California, San Diego, has added a real-time course activity feed to its Open EdX platform, allowing for more rigorous data collection of student activity on the university's MOOC offerings.
Carnegie Mellon spent millions of dollars developing tools to help instructors improve their teaching. Now other institutions are invited to use them, too.
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