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Harvard and MIT Put $60-Million Into New Platform for Free Online Courses

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"The group of elite universities offering free online courses just got bigger."Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology today announced a partnership that will host online courses from both institutions free of charge. The platform, its creators say, has the potential to improve face-to-face classes on the home campuses while giving students around the world access to a blue-ribbon education."The new venture, called edX, grew out of MIT’s announcement last year that it more...

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John Daly on May 03, 2012

Pearson and Google Jump Into Learning Management With a New, Free System

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"One of the world’s biggest education publishers has joined with one of the most dominant and iconic software companies on the planet to bring colleges a new—and free—learning-management system with the hopes of upending services that affect just about every instructor, student, and college in the country."Today Pearson, the publishing and learning technology group, has teamed up with the software giant Google to launch OpenClass, a free LMS that combines standard course-management tools with more...

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John Daly on October 20, 2011

As Journal Boycott Grows, Elsevier Defends Its Practices

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"A protest against Elsevier, the world's largest scientific journal publisher, is rapidly gaining momentum since it began as an irate blog post at the end of January. By Tuesday evening, about 2,400 scholars had put their names to an online pledge not to publish or do any editorial work for the company's journals, including refereeing papers."The boycott is growing so quickly—it had about 1,800 signers on Monday—that Elsevier officials on Tuesday broke their official silence to respond to more...

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John Daly on February 07, 2012

Latin American Countries Push More Students to Study Abroad

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"The Brazilian government announced this year that it plans to give 75,000 scholarships for local students to study abroad by 2014......."More Latin American students are going abroad, largely to the United States, to study (although their numbers still lag way behind students from Asia), and governments across the continent are using some of their newfound wealth to increase the numbers further through generous scholarship programs."In addition to Brazil, nations as diverse as Chile and El more...

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John Daly on August 11, 2011

New For-Profit Web Site Repackages Free Lecture Videos from Colleges

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A new company called Academic Earth offers free online videos of lectures from some of the world’s most renowned scholars teaching at leading universities. The company has simply grabbed the videos off the universities’ own Web sites and plans to offer tools to students who want to talk about the content — along with a chance to grade the quality of the lectures.

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Moushumi Biswas on February 11, 2009

Debating the Demise of NYU online

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In this cautionary tale from The Chronicle of Higher Education, experts debate whether New York University's online for-profit venture went under because of the changing economy or bad decisions.

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R.W. Burniske on December 10, 2001

Tablets Sneak Up on Laptops: Wireless computers on college and university campuses in the U.S.A.

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This article discusses different types of tablets and how they are increasingly used on campuses in the United States. Tablets are small in size, lighter in weight, and have handwriting recognition. They are used for note taking and collaborative work with peers and educators.

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Commonwealth of Learning (COL) on March 31, 2003

More Professors Teach by Using Other Colleges' Online Courses

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This article discusses how colleges in the United States are engaged in purchasing online courses, rather than developing their own. The author also delves into the debate around course swapping between non-profit and for- profit organisations. Written by Dan Carnevale for the Chronicle of Higher Education, October 15, 2004.

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Commonwealth of Learning (COL) on October 31, 2004

Advertising on the Internet via your college website

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This article suggests that colleges in the U.S.A are considering and/or allowing advertisements to appear on their websites. Through commercial relationships, colleges and universities may be earning additional money. The author opens the discussion around online sponsorship and advertising of academic websites, specifically for institutions that are non profit. The article, written by Dan Carnevale appears in the April.25, 2003 issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education.

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Commonwealth of Learning (COL) on April 25, 2003

Developing Countries Turn to Distance Education

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An informative article about the adoption of online learning around the globe.

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Commonwealth of Learning (COL) on April 24, 2002

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