Distance Learning

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 […]

Sometimes it is easy to miss the most important point in an article, particularly if you are not looking for it. In a recent piece in the Chronicle of Higher Education Goldie Blumenstyke reports on […]

I have previously taken stock of the variety of online activities engaged in by colleges and universities. The list of possibilities for forms of online learning is lengthy, and it is sometimes difficult to understand […]

A recent report on a shift in strategy by OPM 2U has stirred thinking on the future of professional school programs, notably masters degree programs, in the evolving distance learning landscape. 2U is revising its […]

Okay, let me make my surprise face. Recent discussions of online education keying off from a very thorough discussion of OPMs and their role in maintaining the high cost of higher education by Kevin Carey […]

Although growing numbers of students are studying online, the increased competition and consolidation in the online education market is casting doubt on the expectations of colleges and universities that online learning will provide a much […]

YouTube has announced a new feature, Educational Playlists, that will present curated learning resources on topics of general interest. YouTube is investing $20 million to line up educational content providers for this initiative. In an […]

With the growing reliance on video in distance learning applications, the costs of producing such video can become an impediment for distance learning producers. To address this issue Byung-Hak Kim and Varun Ganapathi, researchers at […]

Wow! The team at the EdLab has released the latest version of Rhizr, their content curation system. The new version allows greater flexibility and has a blazingly fast search. If you have used Rhizr in […]

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