Pearson Embanet will get about $186 million to manage the University of Florida online
The University of Florida (UF) will pay Pearson Embanet "an estimated $186 million over the life of its 11-year contract in direct payments and a share of tuition revenue to help launch and manage the state's fully online, four-year degree program."
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Alberta announces open educational resources initiative
The Alberta Ministry of Innovation and Advanced Education has provided $2 million to launch an Open Educational Resources Initiative.
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Blogs and wikis in formal higher education: Examples of open education
Tony Bates follows up on an article about the University of Mary Washington's A Domain of One's Own program, by noting that UBC runs both UBC Blogs, which has over 22,785 members, and the UBC Wiki.
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An e-portfolio with no limits
The University of Mary Washington (UMW) in Fredericksburg, Virginia, has launched a Web-hosting project where students can use an array of tools to build their own academic identities, with no limits.
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Toward a common definition of flipped learning
Robert Talbert, a mathematics professor at Grand Valley State University explores the Flipped Learning Network's proposed definition of flipped learning, which states that "Flipped Learning is a pedagogical approach in which direct instruction moves from the group learning space to the individual learning space, and the resulting group space is transformed into a dynamic, interactive learning environment where the educator guides students as they apply concepts and engage creatively in the subject matter."
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LTI 1.1 enabled in all Coursera courses
Coursera has enabled the Learning Tools Interoperability Standard (LTI) in all of its courses.
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Big data MOOC research breakthrough: Learning activities lead to achievement
Justin Reich, a HarvardX research fellow, summarizes a recent series of MOOC studies and concludes that "learning environments that are capable of tracking trillions of learner actions down to the millisecond have led to a breakthrough in education research: being active in a learning environment may be a powerful predictor of doing well in that learning environment.
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MOOC providers Coursera and edX announce new leaders
Coursera and edX recently announced new top-level executive hires.
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New syllabus archive opens the curricular black box
The Chronicle of Higher Education profiles the Open Syllabus Project, a new effort to build a large-scale online database of syllabi “as a platform for the development of new research, teaching, and administrative tools.”
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Memorandum of understanding on open educational resources
The Premiers of British Columbia, Alberta, and Saskatchewan have released a Memorandum of Understanding on Open Educational Resources (OER), which will see the three provinces collaborate on the development of common OERs within their respective advanced education sectors.
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