Distance Learning

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, […]

An article by Natalie Wexler in Technology Review takes on the growing use of technology in classrooms and provides a number of examples of technology use in practice falling far short of the claims made […]

The Canadian province of Ontario is mandating that high school students complete two online courses as a graduation requirement. This requirement places Ontario at the forefront of the movement to require online courses for high […]

An article in Forbes discusses the ratings given to online MBA programs by recent graduates and the results are encouraging. Graduates of online MBA programs reported definite positive impacts on their careers from their online […]

As online learning has grown and matured, there is evidence that while it allows some students who would otherwise be unable to access education to pursue their studies, in the case of other students the […]

One of the challenges for online learning programs is developing a sense of community and connection among the students and the faculty. Social connections can arise spontaneously when education takes place in a physical space […]

The University of Michigan has announced that it will invest $50 million to create a Center for Academic Innovation, which will include curricular innovation through new online and hybrid offerings, educational data, and software tools […]

Writing in the Harvard Business Review, Leah Belsky, Senior Vice President at Coursera, sketches a future for online learning that includes institutions of higher education at the center of a global shared learning ecosystem. This […]

I have previously called attention to the challenges posed by online program managers (OPMs), those companies that manage some or all aspects of online programs for colleges and universities. A new report from the Century […]

If you care about the future of distance learning and you have not yet encountered Barbara Oakley and Terrence Sejnowski’s Learning How to Learn MOOC on Coursera, you are in for a real treat. The […]