After an almost 30 year career as a successful actor and performer, I became aware of a significant decline in the quality and quantity of work being offered when I hit my 40s.
As long as educators remember that students are flesh-and-blood individuals with unique needs and aspirations, they can animate the best elements of modern technology with the human-to-human connections that have sustained education for thousands of years.
Here's a look at several of the best websites, services and solutions that can help you tap into the benefits these online lectures and lessons offer.
I decided to go back to school this year, although rather than travel the well-trodden path of specialization by obtaining a graduate degree, I decided it was time to re-do my undergraduate BA, this time taking all the courses I never got around to the first time around.
With less red tape than the traditional college format, online students are able to earn credits while still working full time, maintaining families and dealing with illnesses.
With online learning making the educational process more time-manageable, more graduates are in a better position to complete their degrees and find employment in their desired industries. And there is no better example of this occurring than in telecommunications.
I believe that online learning has the potential to revolutionize higher education. Students will be able to learn at their own pace and problems as simple as finding a place to park on campus will be eliminated.
As access to online educational opportunities increases, is there an optimal balance to strike with traditional classroom practices? The answer, similar to the forces driving the question, relates to experimenting with approaches that depart from the usual instructional routine.
MOOCs pose some complex questions: What MOOC credits are transferable? From which other institutions will we accept them? How and by whom will such courses be evaluated for equivalency and quality with existing courses and degree requirements?
MOOCs may have snared most of the headlines, but traditional, credit-based online learning continued to chug along just fine last year, thank you very...
Let's be clear that the iconic ivy covered college campus has its place. But they do not work for everyone. More and more learners are opting for online study. They need the flexibility and the ability to learn -- if not at one's own pace -- then in one's own space.
Having roiled the music recording and newspaper industries, the Internet is now churning through universities and colleges. Much media attention has been paid to MOOCs, where universities post course material online to be freely consumed by tens or even hundreds of thousands of citizens.
Some Florida lawmakers want to see a new public university opened in the cloud, but education leaders in the state remain skeptical after seeing the r...
Just as iTunes U and YouTube enabled universities to build a digital bridge between the Ivory tower and main street, social media can help facilitate the two-way conversations critical to learning.
Last year, leading lights in for-profit and nonprofit higher education convened in Washington for a conference on private-sector innovation in the ind...
There are millions of working Americans who started college but didn't complete their bachelor's degree. After leaving, many took jobs in which they've succeeded, but now they can't move higher up the ladder.
Originally founded with a $60 million grant from Harvard and MIT to develop and implement online learning technologies, edX is expanding into community colleges by offering its massive open online courses.
Millennials are concerned about the high cost of college, and that worry is leading them to be more supportive online education, a new poll from North...
Just in time for the holidays, celebrity chef Michael Mina has created a daily email and website called Cook Taste Eat where wannabe chefs can spice up their rudimentary repertoires with some of Michael Mina's most famed dishes.
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What will happen when universities form partnerships with companies like Coursera? How will the coupling of the university with an online distributio...
By Stephanie Simon Oct 3 (Reuters) - Virtual public schools, which allow students to take all their classes online, have exploded in ...
Deanna Jump, a 43-year-old kindergarten teacher in Georgia, has unexpectedly become a self-made millionaire -- by selling her lesson plans to other te...
This piece comes to us courtesy of The Hechinger Report. YUMA, Ariz. — Carpe Diem Collegiate High School and Middle School looks more like an off...
I lead an institution of higher education. That means I am the equivalent of a newspaper publisher circa 1997. We all know now what only the most astute publishers knew then: The Internet had arrived.
