Distance Learning

As colleges and universities continue to develop their own approaches to increasing the number of distance learning courses to meet the growing demand, it is useful to think about strategies for making the transition to […]

An article in TechCrunch reports on a new investment in online learning market site Udemy by Japanese publisher Benesse that values Udemy at $2 billion. The article provides useful information on the context for online […]

A recent piece from the Interaction Design Foundation reviews some of the more prominent principles of Service Design Thinking. Service Design Thinking is a special set of design approaches that support the creation of seamless […]

According to a report in the Hindustan Times, India’s top 100 universities will be able to offer fully online degree programs under a new education policy designed to increase the capacity of India to meet […]

The Virginia Department of Education has launched a new platform that allows teachers to access open educational resources and to submit resources they have developed themselves and would like to share. At launch the site […]

The Harvard Business School online program provides a good example of direct borrowing of a campus-based pedagogy for online delivery, and a recent change in branding seems to have confirmed that fidelity to the campus […]

Writing in the Philadelphia Inquirer, Susan Snyder explains the transfer agreement between the Pennsylvania Commission for Community Colleges, representing 14 community colleges in the state, and Southern New Hampshire University. Under the terms of the […]

An article in the Austin American-Statesman by Lara Korte reports on the pattern of online enrollments at Austin area colleges and universities, and the pattern reveals much about how online learning may be settling into […]

In a look-ahead piece on education for 2020, Derek Newton highlights what seem to be troubling developments that will take hold in the coming year. These include: 1) another LMS vendor going to private hands, […]