A collection of articles and videos looking at the trends and issues related to university level online education
Sean Michael Morris asks: Are we giving our online students an education with all the nuance and complexity they deserve? "When we take our tea...
The CEO of Strayer Education, Karl McDonnell, admits that some of Strayer University’s online courses were boring and monotonous—essentially narrat...
2U said yesterday that it had formed a partnership with shared workspace company WeWork. Any of the 13,000 students enrolled in the graduate degree...
On this holiday week, we're rebroadcasting our most popular episode of 2017: Barbara Oakley, a professor of engineering at Oakland University,...
Face-to-face instruction is superior in so many ways, writes Christopher Schaberg. “there are several things I can’t do in my class on the inter...
Content chunking is the strategy of breaking up content into shorter, bite-size pieces that are more manageable and easier to remember. This is a g...
EdX, the nonprofit online-education group founded by MIT and Harvard, is quietly developing a “MicroBachelors” degree that is designed to break the...
Washington Post, Research confirms that retention after a lecture is about 10% and "taking notes from 'a sage on a stage' isn't as effective as ot...
Similar to e-commerce firms, online-degree programs are beginning to incorporate elements of an older-school, brick-and-mortar model.
In less than three weeks, strict privacy regulations will go into effect for the European Union. And that’s forcing companies and colleges around t...
Children learn best when their bodies are engaged in the living world. We must resist the ideology of screen-based learning
Experience the world's best online education with Outlier. Learn from top educators and earn college credits you can transfer to any school. Out...
The coronavirus forced a shift to virtual classes, but their continuation could be beneficial even after the pandemic ends.
Google's new certificate program takes only six months to complete, and will be a fraction of the cost of college. a similar program Google offe...
University of the People (UoPeople) is the Education Revolution! It is the first non-profit, American-accredited, tuition-free online university de...
Don’t count on it, despite the claims of the disruption industry. Campus higher ed will survive—but there are a few lessons it could stand to learn.
Former for-profit Ashford University, which enrolls 35,000 students, will become the new, nonprofit University of Arizona Global Campus. The Uni...
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