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Accreditation in a Rapidly Changing World
Regional accreditors must respond to the rise of competency-based education or risk becoming less relevant, writes Paul LeBlanc.
Digital Pink Slips
Sliding enrollments at for-profit colleges mean less work for adjuncts who teach online. And these faculty cutbacks happen quietly, and sometimes without much warning.
Not Rushing Into MOOCs
Though many of its peers were among the first universities to create open courses, Yale is taking time to evaluate and strategize.
The New Intelligence
Knewton says its data-rich system can read students' minds. The company has landed Arizona State and Pearson as partners -- will the rest of higher education follow?
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.
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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.
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Learning From MOOCs
Andrew Ng on what MOOCs and the "Wild West" of higher education are teaching professors.
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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.