online education

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Beyond MOOC Hype

Ry Rivard | Inside Higher Ed | July 9, 2013

As scores of colleges rush to offer free online classes, the mania over massive open online courses may be slowing down. Even top proponents of MOOCs are acknowledging critical questions remain unanswered, and are urging further study. Read More »

California's Move Toward MOOCs Sends Shock Waves, But Key Questions Remain Unanswered

Lee Gardner and Jeffrey R. Young | The Chronicle of Higher Education | March 14, 2013

Supporters of newly proposed legislation in California hope to reduce the number of students shut out of key courses by forging an unprecedented partnership between traditional public colleges and online-education upstarts. But on Wednesday specific details of how the deal would work were hard to pin down. Read More »

GSB Pushes For Online Education

David Furlonger | Financial Mail | July 18, 2013

Even by the usual standard of acronyms, Mooc is particularly clumsy. But is this new buzzword the future of education? Read More »

Harvard & MIT Announce EdX, a Disruptive Joint Venture That Will Offer Free Online Courses

Lauren Landry | BostInno | May 2, 2012

By the time the first MITx course launched, 90,000 people had already registered, merely proving the popularity of online education. Today, however, with the help of Harvard University, MIT’s upped the ante. Together, the two have announced EdX, a new tool designed to build on both schools’ experience in online learning. Read More »

India has the second largest enrollment in Online Education in the world

Venkata Susmita Biswas | The Hindu | September 1, 2013

edX’s open source platform has become a favoured massive online open course (MOOC) destination for students from India. Read More »

Kitware Announces New Fall Courses

Staff Writer | Kitware | July 18, 2012

To better serve the open-source software community and our collaborators, Kitware is increasing the course offerings for this fall. In addition to the three courses already scheduled in our Lyon location, we will be hosting three on-site courses in New York and adding three courses into our regular online rotation. Read More »

My MOOC Improves My Classroom

Buck Goldstein | The Huffington Post | July 7, 2013

Amidst all the angst within academia generated by the new MOOCs (massive open online courses) and online education in general, actually working on a MOOC for the last six months has convinced me of one thing: MOOCs will make the classroom better. Read More »

Open Source Education Software Unveiled By Google

Adario Strange | ITProPortal | September 13, 2012

Online education startups such as the Khan Academy, along with new efforts by MIT, Stanford, and Harvard have helped spur interest in and add legitimacy to the notion of remote learning. Now Google is lending its brainpower to the rapidly growing area by releasing a tool called Course Builder, open source software designed to let anyone create online education courses. Read More »

OPENPediatrics Open Sources Medical Diagrams and Animations

OPENPediatrics (OP), a free online education and best practice sharing community for pediatric clinicians worldwide, has launched a new library of openly licensed medical animations and illustrations, making them available for non-commercial educational use. The new multimedia library draws on the extensive collection of animations and illustrations developed for didactic and procedural videos created for the OP clinician community site.

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Stanford Makes Coursework Available On New Open-Source Platform

Brad Hayward | Menlo Park-Atherton Patch | June 11, 2013

Stanford online coursework will be available starting this summer on a new open-source platform, OpenEdX, the university announced Tuesday. Read More »

Stanford Online Coursework To Be Available On New Open-Source Platform

Brad Hayward | Stanford Report | June 11, 2013

As part of its effort to promote expanded access to high-quality online learning opportunities around the world, Stanford helps launch the OpenEdX open-source platform and begins offering summer coursework on it. Read More »

The MOOC That Roared

Gabriel Khan | Slate | July 23, 2013

How Georgia Tech’s new, super-cheap online master’s degree could radically change American higher education. Read More »

Udacity Announces Open Education Alliance To Prepare Students For Tech Jobs

Blair Hanley Frank | GeekWire | September 9, 2013

If you want to land a job at Google, a new industry alliance, not a fresh B.S. in Computer Science, may be the key to your future. Read More »