The value of MOOCs to early adopter universities
Deke Kassabian, a senior technology director at University of Pennsylvania, researched the motivations that universities have for investing time and money to develop MOOCs.
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Udacity-AT&T ‘NanoDegree’ offers an entry-level approach to college
Udacity recently announced that they are introducing "credentials built and recognized by industry with clear pathways to jobs.
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MOOC research initiative participants release results
The MOOC Research Initiative recently released the results from 22 projects which examined "everything from how social networks form in MOOCs to how the courses can be used for remedial education."
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Study of MOOCs suggests dropping the label dropout
A recent quantitative study of MOOC engagement, which tracked the behaviour patterns of more than 300,000 students enrolled in Stanford-based Coursera courses, suggests that using "the dropout label on everyone who fails to complete a MOOC misses key distinctions and fails to acknowledge the spectrum of learning goals that students bring to open online courses.
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Starbucks clarifies tuition program with Arizona State University
Starbucks recently unveiled a new benefit that would let workers who are university juniors and seniors earn an online degree from Arizona State University (ASU) at no cost.
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Georgia Tech optimistic after first semester of its affordable online Master’s in CS
Administrators at the Georgia Institute of Technology are optimistic but “not declaring victory” after one semester of its affordable online master’s degree program in computer science.
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Universities band together to share and protect digital resources
Colorado State University, Indiana University, the University of Florida, and the University of Michigan recently unveiled Unizin, a consortium that "enables each institution, its faculty, and students to draw on an evolving set of tools to support digital learning for residential, flipped classroom, online courses/degrees, badged experiences for Alumni, or even MOOCs if desired."
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Reclaiming innovation
Brian Lamb and Jim Groom examine the topic of innovation and disruption in higher education and argue that institutions should be "using open architecture, through open-source applications, to reinvest in creative people, processes, and possibilities — that is, to reclaim innovation."
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A sprint through the pages
Over a period of four days, a team of five authors (Siobhán McPhee from UBC, Arthur “Gill” Green from UBC Okanagan, Britta Ricker and Cristina Temenos from SFU, and Aviv Ettya from UFV) met at UBC and wrote an entire geography textbook as part of BCcampus's first open textbook sprint.
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Flexible learning project profiles: Video interviews with UBC faculty members
In a series of videos on flexible learning at UBC, seven faculty members talk about their experiences creating new courses or transforming existing courses and the impact it has had on their teaching and on their students’ experiences.
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