Instructional technology / distance education

As the ed-tech investment community gathers at the Education Innovation Summit for a fifth year, some attendees are growing impatient about the lack of results.

The online education provider's for-credit, online course pooling consortium will disband by the end of the summer.

With a year and a half to go until the University of Arkansas launches its online institution, can the system avoid the pitfalls that have doomed similar initiatives?

If a faculty member swaps institutions, who keeps the intellectual property rights to the massive open online course-- the professor, the university, or both?

Six months after the historically black university announced a major push with Pearson to offer online degrees, the plans are on hold.

Coursera and Academic Partnerships both introduce online course "Specializations" after they held talks about working on the idea together.

Survey shows academic leaders' enthusiasm for online education dipped in 2013 after interest among institutions with no such offerings faltered.

President Obama's science and technology council recommends the federal government and regional accreditors get out of the way for MOOCs.

New study of online learning, finding those who've taken distance courses to be more likely to earn certificates and degrees, is at odds with earlier research focusing on shorter-term outcomes.

Using the MOOC provider edX, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology starts to talk about "unbundling" its own education.