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What Scholars Are Saying About Online Education

edudemic.comBy Jeff Dunn

During a recent lecture at Stanford University, scholars and respondents debated the merits of online learning. From the current disruption happening to the technology needed to bring it full circle, the debate covered all the hot-button issues when it comes to education, technology, and online learning.

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Unfounded fears: Making higher education more affordable

The EvoLLLution. Unfounded fears: Making higher education more affordable

Larry Cooperman
Director of OpenCourseWare
University of California, Irvine

There is a lot of anxiety right now in higher education. There is uncertainty around key financial drivers for higher education. The value of many degrees is being subjected to scrutiny. Access to student loans is undergoing significant changes. Budgets are being trimmed. Students are protesting fee increases. And there is a perceived threat from open content to the ability to charge tuition.

Given all of this, who wouldn’t be nervous? But if we start to pick apart the actual level of disruption—OpenCourseWare and MOOCs notwithstanding—we don’t yet… Continue reading

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The Value of Service Oriented Architecture in Higher Education

The EvoLLLution. The Value of Service Oriented Architecture in Higher Education

Russell Battista Jr.
Director of Application and Data Integration
Yale University

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is an approach to building technology applications that aligns business and IT goals. This is accomplished by defining and building services that are business focused and can be reused and deployed across multiple software applications. The value proposition from the business perspective is that SOA enables business flexibility and agility while focusing on the goals of the organization. In order to build and deploy SOA-based applications, the technology team must first understand the business processes and build services that represent these processes.… Continue reading

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Useful New Book Offers Inspiration, Guidance to Finish that Degree — Affordably

According to recent sobering statistics, more than 50 million working-age Americans have some college but no degree.*

Courageous Learning: Finding a New Path through Higher Education (John Ebersole and William Patrick; Hudson Whitman/ECP) may help. The book is aimed squarely at working-age Americans with no degree, and was written to guide adults—whose financial and time constraints differ from traditional campus-bound students—to finish their degree at accredited institutions.

Dr. Ebersole, president of Excelsior College and a leading advocate for adult degree completion said, “Courageous Learning was written to demonstrate options, and to show that a student can finish a degree… Continue reading

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5 Higher Ed Tech Trends for 2012

 
In 2012, higher education institutions will look to improve the learning experience through analytics and personalized learning environments, while reducing costs with digital resources and cloud technologies.

“What’s happening, especially with the prestigious institutions and the large state universities, is that because technology is evolving so much that those institutions are investing an incredible amount of money, despite their own budget cuts, into crafting online learning experiences that are as unique as the on-campus experience so that there is a true distinction and a true value that can warrant the higher tuition dollars and preserve the prestige of the… Continue reading

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