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Benefits of Teaching Online
Teaching online can be reinvigorating for faculty members and their careers, writes Audrey Heinesen, who encourages more professors to take the leap.
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3 Must-Knows on Distance Ed
Remember that distance education isn't a singular thing, and that many of the key debates also apply to traditional instruction, writes Joel Shapiro.
Masculine Open Online Courses
More female professors are experimenting with MOOCs, but men and STEM classes still dominate course offerings.
What Happened to Ivy Bridge?
Amid news of a federal investigation, previously unreleased documents offer glimpse into accreditor's scrutiny of an online partnership between a for-profit company and a nonprofit university.
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Better Off Dead
In a rebuttal to a recent essay, faculty leaders explain why a recently stalled California bill to grant academic credit for third-party courses would have hurt students and taxpayers.
O.K., Glass, Teach
After a summer's worth of experimentation, educators are ready to bring Google Glass into the classroom -- but medical professors have already beat them to the punch.
Feminist Anti-MOOC
Can education be free and online and yet reject some of the choices made by proponents of massive open online courses? A class about to debut aims to show what's possible.
Experimental College's First Graduate
Competency-based education takes a major step forward in its challenge to seat time as College for America awards its first degree.