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UMassOnline Founder and Former UMass President Jack Wilson on “Innovation in an Era of Disruptive Change” 15 Feb 2013 | 09:21 pm
Dr. Wallace E. Boston is President and Chief Executive Officer of American Public University System (APUS) and its parent company, American Public Education, Inc. In a recent blog post, he filed a rep...
A Massive OOps Calamity 15 Feb 2013 | 08:25 pm
A planned, tuition-free, six-week Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) intended to reach more than 40,000 students recently unraveled in six days, the reasons for which are painfully detailed in a report...
University World News Reports on US and Global Quality Assurance Initiatives 4 Feb 2013 | 08:03 pm
There are two points to this post. One, as the headline suggests, is about the growing wave of educators worldwide seeking to continue and enhance quality assurance programs, especially now in the lig...
Columbia Business School Professor Exposes Three Myths of Online Learning 24 Jan 2013 | 06:12 pm
Hitendra Wadhwa is Professor of Professional Practice at Columbia Business School. For IEDP, which describes itself as a publisher of specialist information for leaders and leadership development prof...
2012 National Survey: More than 6.7 Million Students Now Taking One Online Course or More 18 Jan 2013 | 10:13 pm
This is from a recent news release about the 10th annual survey of online learning trends: The 2012 Survey of Online Learning conducted by the Babson Survey Research Group reveals the number of studen...
One Perspective on 2013 Career Trends 3 Jan 2013 | 03:40 pm
Writing for VentureBeat, Gary Swart provides a guest blog post outlining his perspective on 2013 career trends. He, by the way, is the CEO of oDesk which is an organization that enables both buyers an...
Happy New Year! 3 Jan 2013 | 02:49 pm
I was reviewing Wikipedia’s New Year’s resolution overview which includes the history of this tradition dating back to the ancient Babylonians. If you have time to scan it, you will learn that men and...
New Report: Degrees from U.S. Institutions Highly Valued by Foreign Students 17 Dec 2012 | 08:26 pm
A degree earned through a U.S.-based institution of higher education continues to be a major draw for hundreds of thousands of foreign students… 764,495 in the 2011/12 academic year to be exact, accor...
Distance Learning: 1892 through 2012 3 Dec 2012 | 03:34 am
Think distance learning is a recent phenomenon? If so, you’ll want to examine a recent Forbes article that traces distance learning in America back to 1892. This is especially true if you have friends...
Do Men and Women Have Different Online Learning Experiences? 3 Dec 2012 | 03:31 am
Recently, the flagship institution of the largest university in Malaysia conducted research to see if the online learning experience differed for males and females. More specifically, according to the...
