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LAPTOP U. Has the future of college moved online?
By Nathan Heller
Education is a curiously alchemic process. Its vicissitudes are hard to isolate. Why do some students retain what they learned in a course for years, while others lose it through the other ear over their summer breaks? Is the fact that Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg dropped out of Harvard to revolutionize the tech industry a sign that their Harvard educations worked, or that they failed? The answer matters, because the mechanism by which conveyed knowledge blooms into an education is the standard by which moocs will either enrich teaching in this country or deplete it.… Continue reading
Posted in Online Education
Tagged coursera, Drew Gilpin Faust, edX, Gregory Nagy, Harvard University, Michael J. Sandel, MIT, MOOCs, Nathan Heller, San José State University, U.C. Berkeley, udacity
Are you Superior, Adequate or Inferior?: Perceptions of quality among prospective online students
Dave Jarrat
Vice President, Marketing
InsideTrack
Jill hits the “send” button, firing off the last of the inquiry emails to her short-list of online graduate programs. She waits eagerly for the responses as she gets ready to leave the office. Within seconds, she gets an email back. It thanks her for her inquiry and says that a representative will contact her shortly. It’s an auto-response and doesn’t answer her questions, but at least she knows that her inquiry got through. She looks forward to speaking with the representative. An hour later, she still has no responses from the… Continue reading
Posted in Adult Learners, Online Education
Tagged admissions process, online students, Prospective students
The mass personalization of higher education
Dave Jarrat
Vice President, Marketing
InsideTrack
Jerry, a 34-year-old father of two and full-time department supervisor at a national hardware chain sits down on the couch with his laptop. It’s 8 p.m. and his wife Jill is putting the kids to bed. He logs into his online learning account and sees the instructional modules that have been loaded for him based on the results of the quiz he took this morning on his smart phone. The modules for this evening include an interactive video on cost accounting from a professor at Carnegie Mellon and a problem set… Continue reading
Minerva Aims to Be an Online Ivy League University
By Jill Barshay
Online learning has been trumpeted by everyone from academics to politicians to venture capitalists as a way to improve access to education. But now a novel idea is emerging from a prominent group of digital education supporters: you can’t learn everything online.
The Minerva Project is a first-of-its-kind hybrid of old and new in which there is no campus and students take all of their courses online, but live together in traditional college dorms. The idea comes from a former Internet executive who thinks social interaction is as important as the kind of customized learning that high-tech… Continue reading
How a course-rich world might impact higher education: existing traditional institutions
By Larry Penley
In the first post in this series, How a course-rich world might impact higher education: I. Technology vs pedagogy, I looked at some of the characteristics of the readily-available, “off the shelf” new college level courses (NCLCs) that have created a course-rich world. In particular, I examined the potential of the NCLCs to produce disruptive innovation in higher education. In the second, How a course-rich world might impact higher education: II. Creating new institutions, I discussed using this new course-rich resource to create new institutions using… Continue reading
