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Click here for Columbia How a for-profit company is delivering courses from world-renowned universities to desktops in Latin America...   |
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Paul Constance |
The university in my bedroom Will the Internet bring the world's best colleges to Latin American homes? |
IDB America
June 2001
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Blackboard, television or computer screen? The president of Latin America's largest virtual university argues that the Internet will eclipse television as the favored distance education medium... |
Job Journal
March 14, 2010 |
Making the Grade...with an Online Degree With nearly 200 universities and colleges now offering Web-based classes, online education programs have come of age. |
Information Today
May 7, 2012 |
MIT and Harvard Launch a `Revolution in Education' Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) joined forces to offer free online courses in a project aimed at attracting millions of online learners around the world. |
Mother Jones
February 2001
Eyal Press & Jennifer Washburn |
Digital Diplomas Welcome to the brave new world of higher education, where profesors are 'content experts,' classes are 'courseware,' and students are customers. But just what is a dot-com degree worth? |
IEEE Spectrum
May 2012
Tekla S. Perry |
John L. Hennessy: Risk Taker Stanford University's president predicts the death of the lecture hall as university education moves online |
Job Journal
December 13, 2009
Lauren Baumbauer |
Could Your Career Use a Little Class? Expand your knowledge while broadening your network and your horizons. |
D-Lib
Mar/Apr 2013
Forrest Wright |
What do Librarians Need to Know About MOOCs? The emergence of MOOCs represents a rising trend of removing the learning process from the physical campus, but to an exaggerated degree. This is not necessarily a negative trend; however it does have huge implications for university libraries. |
HHMI Bulletin
Aug 2010 |
National Awards to Foster Science Education In May, HHMI announced $79 million of new grants to help universities strengthen undergraduate and precollege science education nationwide. |
Information Today
August 30, 2012
Abby Clobridge |
MOOCs and the Changing Face of Higher Education Massive Open Online Courses can expand access to learning opportunities, eliminate many geographic and economic barriers to education, create more diverse learning communities, transform lifelong learning, and augment face-to-face and traditional education in new ways. |
T.H.E. Journal
August 2000
Richard Peregoy |
Developing Strategies for Networked Education The raging growth of distance learning extends the reach of traditional educational approaches. Assessing strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats, one institution has developed a progressively expanding, networked distance education program.... |
HHMI Bulletin
Fall 2012 |
HHMI Awards $50 Million to Colleges Forty-seven small colleges and universities have accepted a challenge: to create more engaging science classes, bring real-world research experiences to students, and increase the diversity of students who study science. |
Information Today
April 15, 2013
Abby Clobridge |
The Wild West of MOOCs Massive Open Online Courses are the subject of many recent headlines. The issues cover everything from the future of higher education to using technology to deliver courses and textbooks on a global scale. |
Chemistry World
October 14, 2011
Ned Stafford |
Universities around the world prepare to welcome an influx of Brazilian students The students will start arriving in January as part of Brazil's new Science Without Borders program. |
T.H.E. Journal
January 2009
Rama Ramaswami |
A World of Hurt : Latin America Massive socioeconomic problems have left Latin American education in a dire condition, and decades behind the rest of the globe in integrating technology into teaching and learning. |
T.H.E. Journal
January 1, 2000 |
Futureperspective - a Vision of Education for the 21st Century The creation and delivery of courses over the Web will be the driving force for educational change in the 21st century. |
HHMI Bulletin
Nov 2011 |
Experiment Seeks to Create Interdisciplinary Curricula The Howard Hughes Medical Institute has brought together an expert in student evaluation with faculty members from four universities with one goal in mind: to create interdisciplinary science courses easily implemented in any undergraduate classroom. |
Fast Company
Ainsley O'Connell |
Now You Can Earn A Yale Degree From The Comfort Of Your Living Room Earning a Yale degree will no longer require moving to New Haven, Connecticut, thanks to an online program for would-be physicians' assistants that the university plans to launch early next year. |
Registered Rep.
September 27, 2010
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College In Four Years, Not Six Before a teenager falls in love with any colleges be sure to check their graduation rates. It could save your clients tens of thousands of dollars. |
CRM
May 2014
Maria Minsker |
The Evolution of the MBA What business schools are doing to better prepare your future employees. |
HHMI Bulletin
May 2012
Cori Vanchieri |
Jo Handelsman: Engage to Excel How to keep STEM students from jumping ship? |
IEEE Spectrum
August 2012
Prachi Patel |
The $10 000 College Degree A Texas university offers a low-cost bachelor's in IT. But what's it worth? |
Fast Company
September 2009
Anya Kamenetz |
How Web-Savvy Edupunks Are Transforming American Higher Education Free online courses, Wiki universities, Facebook-style tutoring networks -- American higher education is being transformed by a cadre of Web-savvy edupunks. |
T.H.E. Journal
April 2001
Sylvia Charp |
E-Learning E-learning is seen as an alternative to taking courses in the traditional classroom setting, providing flexibility and convenience in education... |
T.H.E. Journal
April 2002
Judy A. Serwatka |
Improving Student Performance in Distance Learning Courses This article concentrates on the problems encountered and the solutions developed while teaching two college networking courses in the distance learning format... |
Financial Planning
November 1, 2012
Ann Marsh |
25 Great Schools For Future Financial Planners The academic landscape for financial planning is shifting rapidly. Here s where to find the next generation of advisors. |
Reason
July 2008
Katherine Mangu-Ward |
Education for Profit Many of the criticisms about the University of Phoenix are technically accurate. But much of what academic traditionalists see as problems, Phoenix advertises proudly as solutions. |
Registered Rep.
August 26, 2013
Lynn O'Shaughnessy |
School's (Not) Out Parents often assume that their children are going to finish their degrees in four years. Most of the time, it doesn't happen. |
AFP eWire
December 3, 2013 |
Brazil: A Great Potential in Fundraising The need for fundraising education drove Custodio Pereira, general director of Faculdade Santa Marcelina, to work with AFP to conceptualize the material, scout supporting partners, work with a translator and ultimately educate 22 budding fundraisers. |
HBS Working Knowledge
July 25, 2011
Christensen & Eyring |
How Disruptive Innovation is Remaking the University Online learning is a disruptive technology that is making colleges and universities reconsider their higher education models. |
HBS Working Knowledge
June 16, 2014
Michael Blanding |
The Unfulfilled Promise of Educational Technology With 50 million public school students in America, technology holds much potential to transform schools, says John Jong-Hyun Kim. So why isn't it happening? |
T.H.E. Journal
May 2009
Rama Ramaswami |
Even! But No Longer Odd Once regarded as an unconventional alternative for atypical students, virtual schools have achieved mainstream acceptance, and are now seen as providing an education equal to - if not better than - what their traditional counterpart offers. |
BusinessWeek
September 2, 2010
Paul M. Barrett |
Book Review: Higher Education? How Colleges are Wasting Our Money Authors Andrew Hacker and Claudia Dreifus look at where students can get value for their money -- and how too many schools charge too much and deliver too little |
T.H.E. Journal
December 2, 2009
Bridget McCrea |
Setting the Stage for Distance Learning Distance learning capabilities are made possible by Afton, TN-based Chuckey-Doak High School's new video collaboration system and the school's newly formed partnerships with other Northeast Tennessee districts. |
The Motley Fool
October 29, 2009
Rich Smith |
Why Does College Cost So Much? The answer is simpler than you think. The government can improve access to higher education and reduce the price of it (not the cost, mind you, but the price students pay directly) by increasing financial aid. |
HBS Working Knowledge
May 21, 2014
Michael Blanding |
CORe: HBS Powers Up Online Program on Business Fundamentals Harvard Business School's new online primer on the fundamentals of business aims to translate some of the School's unique classroom teaching methods to the Web. |
HHMI Bulletin
May 2012
Erin Peterson |
Making Bigger Better University of Texas at Austin Freshman Research Initiative student Holli Duhon describes her research. |
Information Today
February 19, 2015
Woody Evans |
Google for Education Is Giving Away the Classroom Google for Education can no longer brush off its parallels to other big, for-profit LMSs as "just some apps to help students." We're well beyond Google Docs and Hangouts now. |
Chemistry World
February 2, 2012
Simon Hadlington |
UK chemistry student numbers hold steady University chemistry departments across the UK are breathing a sigh of relief as the number of people applying to study chemistry has held steady despite a large increase in tuition fees for degree courses in England and Wales. |
CRM
December 2010
Koa Beck |
Schools and Social Media: Pass or Flail The lessons universities are learning about emerging technologies. |
BusinessWeek
January 6, 2011
John Hechinger |
For-Profit College Grads Also Earn a Life of Debt The schools leave students more indebted than conventional colleges |
BusinessWeek
December 30, 2009
Daniel Golden |
For-Profit Colleges Target the Military Online universities are raking in millions by signing up soldiers as students. But how valuable is the education they're delivering? |
The Motley Fool
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Brian Stoffel |
Don't Go Anywhere Near This Stock Just because Apollo Group's stock is down doesn't mean it can't drop further. |
Registered Rep.
September 19, 2014
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The College Illusion Are your clients, who could be paying as much as a quarter of a million dollars to send one child to college, getting their money's worth? |
Financial Planning
November 1, 2011
Danielle Reed |
Financial Planning Education 101: 10 Standout Schools A closer look at ten notable schools for with financial planning programs. |
Chemistry World
August 1, 2012
Carmelo Polino |
A warning for Iberoamerican science Very few students consider science as a potential career and even fewer are interested in studying the exact and natural sciences. |
Reason
December 2008 |
Letters Letters to the Editor: The Uses of Hyperbole... Education for Profit... |
BusinessWeek
March 4, 2010
Daniel Golden |
How Colleges Are Buying Respect For-profit education companies are scooping up small schools to gain accreditation -- and the financial aid dollars that come with it. |
Registered Rep.
January 23, 2015
Lynn O'Shaughnessy |
Five Secrets Colleges Are Keeping From You While universities may lure students with fancy brochures, luxury housing and scenic architecture, the reality is that colleges are high-stakes businesses preoccupied with enhancing their own prestige. |
