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Mainstreaming MOOCs
Nonelite public universities are trying to tap into the MOOC excitement to direct students toward traditional credit pathways, generating revenues along the way.
Opinion
Where Are the Learners?
One group seemed largely missing from the digital learners' bill of rights that a group of educators and others released this week, writes Anya Kamenetz: online learners themselves.
Opinion
Learning From MOOCs
Andrew Ng on what MOOCs and the "Wild West" of higher education are teaching professors.
Opinion
Being Present
Bob Samuels presents a case against distance education, which he says is trying to replicate large lecture classes rather than the best of academe.
Digital Learning, for the Learners
12 scholars and experts on technology and education propose a "bill of rights" for those who study online -- a first draft, they quickly emphasize.
MOOCs for Credit
Georgia State will evaluate courses much like it reviews other work done by students before they enroll. Academic Partnerships, which helps universities put degree programs online, will work with institutions to make first course in each degree a MOOC.
Transformation From Within
College leaders need to get involved in the disruption debate and do more to help adult students, finds a "mainfesto" issued on the American Council on Education's letterhead.
As California Goes?
State's governor looks to MOOCs for help in entry-level courses at public institutions. San Jose State takes the plunge while community colleges mull a different path.