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A consortium of top-tier universities announces fully online, non-MOOC, credit-bearing courses.
Establishment Opens Door for MOOCs
The American Council on Education's plan to pursue credit recommendations for Coursera's massive courses is among wave of MOOC-related grants announced by Gates Foundation.
Assessing Campus MOOCs
Gates Foundation will fund $1.4 million study at U. of Maryland to see whether MOOCs can reduce overhead in credit-bearing courses without compromising quality.
Calling In Web Support
At Educause, community college makes the case for student support services as a crucial factor in the battle to survive and thrive in era of online education.
Giving Digital Preservation a Backbone
At Educause, a pitch for a digital preservation project that will outlast individual institutions and companies.
Measuring Engagement (With Books)
The e-textbook consortium CourseSmart has announced an analytics program that will provide data about students' usage of a text, which universities can use to link with outcomes.
How 'Open' Are MOOCs?
At Educause, a study about varying definitions of "open educational resources" punctuates ambiguity about "openness" of the new massive online courses.
Business as Usual
New survey from Campus Computing Project suggests that colleges are not taking full advantage of Big Data, and remain apprehensive about open source applications. But many see a role for MOOCs in academic instruction.