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The Minerva Moment?
In an era of free online classes, one university wants students to pay to fly across the world to be taught together online, by professors who may not be on campus. Will this model work?
Intel on Adaptive Learning
The Gates Foundation pulls together a diverse group of college leaders to dish on adaptive learning and funds new report on the emerging technology.
The Pulse: Handwriting and Voice Capture
This month's edition of The Pulse podcast examines various services that instructors can use to capture their handwriting or voice to embed into learning modules for the flipped classroom or massive open online courses.
Three's Company
Stanford University, birthplace of two MOOC companies, decides to work with a nonprofit started by MIT and Harvard.
Online Rx for 'Cost Disease'
William Bowen, former Princeton president, argues in new book that technology can lower college costs, but there remain more questions than answers.
United Opposition
Academic senates of California's three higher ed systems all now oppose plan to deal with overcrowding by outsourcing instruction and forcing colleges to award credit for programs that may be unaccredited and for-profit.
Economies of Online Scale
Florida and New York try to expand their online course catalogs while consolidating authority.
Coursera's Contractual Elitism
Many state universities and small liberal arts colleges that want to partner with Coursera may not want to wait by the phone.