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Looking Back on This Year's Classroom Experiments
Last fall, professors told us about their plans to experiment this year with technology-enabled teaching. Now they reflect on the successes and shortcomings.
Plug-and-Play Online Courses: Innovation or Dystopia?
Template structures for online courses are becoming more common across higher ed. While they can create efficiency, some instructors worry they're stamping out individual agency.
The Next Stage for NC-SARA
A national group dedicated to coordinating state approval of online programs selects a new leader and plans to focus more on program quality.
Doing It Yourself: The ‘Internal OPM’ Model
As concerns about outsourcing ring out across online education, several institutions have carved out niches by developing in-house capacity that resembles OPM functions.
Help Us Help You: What Should We Cover?
Readers, it's your turn: What issues are keeping you up at night? What strategies to adopt? How to encourage and support the faculty? Which products or services to use?
Abrupt Departure at Online Learning Consortium
Kathleen Ives, the organization's director since 2013, resigns suddenly and with no explanation. A deputy replaces her.
California Mulls Crackdown on Online Partnerships
Bills targeting for-profit institutions in California would prohibit tuition-sharing deals -- a sign of growing political scrutiny of the role of online program management companies.
Online Education, Beyond ‘Deans Gone Wild’
Leaders of companies colleges hire to take academic programs online discuss their role, the scrutiny they're facing and why we should call them something other than OPMs.