News Around the Web About Online Education

 

April 25, 2013 MOOCs and the Quality Question

March 29, 2013 The Imminent Shakeout? Disruptive Innovation and Higher Education

March 29, 2013 Online Rx for 'Cost Disease'

March 29, 2013 Online higher education may be where credit is due

March 27, 2013 Turn On, Log In and Graduate: Online Solutions to Student Debt Crisis

March 19, 2013 Inside Higher Ed: Who Owns a MOOC?

March 19, 2013 Inside Higher Ed: Beyond the Credit Hour

March 18, 2013 The Great Aid Gap

March 18, 2013 The Chronicle of Higher Education: The Professors Who Make the MOOCs

March 14, 2013 Massive (But Not Open)

March 11, 2013 BBC: UK universities 'face online threat'

March 11, 2013 Financial Times: Point of view: Virtual classes give lesson in reality

March 11, 2013 Financial Times: Universities face online ‘avalanche’

March 6, 2013 The New York Times: Financing for Colleges Declines as Costs Rise

March 6, 2013 The Wall Street Journal: Public-University Costs Soar

March 4, 2013 The Chronicle of Higher Education: A College Degree Sorts Job Applicants, but Employers Wish It Meant More

March 3, 2013 The College Puzzle: Big Increase In High School Enrollment In College Courses

February 28, 2013 The Wall Street Journal: Student-Loan Delinquencies Among the Young Soar

February 28, 2013 Center for Postsecondary and Economic Success: Financial Pressures Drive Down College Completion - CLASP RADD Chart Series Continues

February 27, 2013 BBC: Willetts urges UK universities to put courses online

February 20, 2013 Education News: Colleges Should Do More to Align Programs With Job Market

February 19, 2013 The New York Times: It Takes a B.A. to Find a Job as a File Clerk

February 18, 2013 The Wall Street Journal: A Degree Drawn in Red Ink

February 18, 2013 Yahoo Sports: Johnny Manziel taking only online courses, only on campus once a month

February 15, 2013 The Week: Why your college could go bankrupt

February 13, 2013 Business Insider: How Colleges Should Prepare Students For The Current Economy

February 9, 2013 University World News: MOOCs – Mistaking brand for quality?

January 28, 2013 The Chronicle of Higher Education: College Rankings: a Guide to Nowhere

January 17, 2013 Inside Higher Ed: Nowhere to Turn

January 15, 2013 Inside Higher Ed: Shared Crisis

January 11, 2013 Inside Higher Ed: Priced Out

January 8, 2013 Venture Beat: UC spends big to market its online courses — but reaches only one person

January 3, 2013 BBC: UK university applications down for second year running

January/February 2013 The American Interest: The End of the University as We Know It

December 31, 2012 The Washington Post: An F for effort on holding down tuition

December 28, 2012 The Wall Street Journal: Deans List: Hiring Spree Fattens College Bureaucracy—And Tuition

December 24, 2012 The Seattle Times: UW's online classes find big market — if they're free

December 22, 2012 The Economist: Learning new lessons: Online courses are transforming higher education, creating new opportunities for the best and huge problems for the rest

December 19, 2012 Inside Higher Ed: College Enrollments Fell This Fall

December 18, 2012 SeeThruEdu: The Transformation of American Education

December 17, 2012 Education Week: Sir John Daniel: Openness Rather Than Scale is MOOC Contribution

December 14, 2012 Times Higher Education: Open University launches British Mooc platform to rival US providers

December 13, 2012 The New York Times: Building a Showcase Campus, Using an I.O.U.

December 11, 2012 Forbes: 5 Ways Technology Will Impact Higher Ed in 2013

December 10, 2012 The New York Times: Higher Education’s Future: Discuss!

December 6, 2012 Inside Higher Ed: Fascination and Questions About Pearson College

December 5, 2012 Inside Higher Ed: More Cracks in the Credit Hour

Winter 2012 National Affairs: The Coming Higher-Ed Revolution

November 30, 2012 The Washington Post: The $10,000 bachelor’s degree: gimmick or real?

November 29, 2012 Inside Higher Ed: Wielding 'Power Users'

November 29, 2012 Inside Higher Ed: To MOOC or Not to MOOC?

November 28, 2012 Inside Higher Ed: Americans Support Higher Ed and Online Degrees, Poll Finds

November 27, 2013 Northeastern News: Americans believe higher education must innovate

November 23, 2012 BBC: Can schools survive in the age of the web?

November 19, 2012 The New York Times: College of Future Could Be Come One, Come All

November 9, 2012 Financial Times: At home: Rafael Reif – The MIT president, who is leading a non-profit virtual learning initiative, talks about his residence on the campus

November 8, 2012 Inside Higher Ed: How 'Open' Are MOOCs?

October 24, 2012 The Wall Street Journal: For-Profit Colleges Get Schooled – Sector Suffers as Students Turn Back to Traditional Institutions

October 22, 2012 The Chronicle of Higher Education: Today's Unpresidential Presidents

October 10, 2012 Inside Higher Ed: Higher Ed Shrinks

September 17, 2012 The Wall Street Journal: B-School Applicants Decline for Four Years

August 30, 2012 Tech Crunch: Stanford Creates Vice Provost For Online Learning To “Fundamentally Reshape Education”

August 9, 2012 Inside Higher Ed: Bitter Reality of MOOConomics

August 5, 2012 The Huffington Post: MOOCs From Elite Colleges Transform Online Higher Education

August 5, 2012 University World News: Could MOOCs lead to the decline of branch campuses?

August 4, 2012 The Economist: The college-cost calamity – Many American universities are in financial trouble

August 2, 2012 Inside Higher Ed: The Online Pecking Order

July 31, 2012 Politico: The importance of post-secondary certificates

July 30, 2012 Orlando Sentinel: State's 'Online U' would be national first

July 29, 2012 Tampa Bay Online: State 'Online U' would be innovative, but educators uneasy

July 27, 2012 Inside Higher Ed: Moody's Gives Higher Education a Bleak Outlook

July 23, 2012 The Chronicle of Higher Education: One-Third of Colleges Are on Financially 'Unsustainable' Path, Bain Study Finds

July 17, 2012 The New York Times: Universities Reshaping Education on the Web

July 16, 2012 The Washington Post: U-Va. takes major step in online education

July 12, 2012 Inside Higher Ed: Global Education Shifts

July 12, 2012 EdTech: 50 Striking Statistics About Distance Learning in Higher Education – The physical classroom is becoming a distant memory for some students.

July 10, 2012 BBC: End of empire for Western universities?

June 29, 2012 National Review Online: Degrees in ‘Pop Culture’?

June 27, 2012 Bloomberg: Mitch Daniels Can Help Shake Up Higher Education

June 25, 2012 The New York Times: Fixing College

June 23, 2012 The Washington Post: Question in U-Va. tumult: What should premier public universities be?

June 20, 2012 BBC: Top US universities put their reputations online

June 14, 2012 The Wall Street Journal: Universities Feel the Heat Amid Cuts

June 13, 2012 CNN: Do we need a revolution in higher education?

June 4, 2012 The Wall Street Journal: Changing the Economics of Education

May 30, 2012 The Wall Street Journal: Higher Education's Online Revolution – The substitution of technology (which is cheap) for labor (which is expensive) can vastly increase access to an elite-caliber education.

May 29, 2012 The Chronicle of Higher Education: The Future of Undergraduate Teaching

May 27, 2012 The Boston Globe: Online classes cut costs and human contact

May 25, 2012 Inside Higher Ed: EdX Airways

May 24, 2012 The Atlantic: Thirsting for Knowledge? Try a MOOC

May 22, 2012 ITHAKA S+R: Interactive Learning Online at Public Universities: Evidence from Randomized Trials

May 19, 2012 Sense on Cents: Student Loan Crisis: Why So Many Colleges May Fail?

May 17, 2012 The Huffington Post: Measuring the Value of a College Degree

May 16, 2012 Inside Higher Ed: Outsourcing Online Coaches

May 16, 2012 The New York Times: Come the Revolution

May 10, 2012 Inside Higher Ed: MOOCs and Machines

May 10, 2012 Business Insider: University 2.0 — Revolution in Education

May 9, 2012 Tech Crunch: Move Over Harvard And MIT, Stanford Has The Real “Revolution In Education”

May 8, 2012 Psychology Today: From Books to MOOCs: The Future of the Higher Education

May 7, 2012 Financial Times: Universities must adapt to financial realities

May 3, 2012 Los Angeles Times: Harvard, MIT partner to offer free online courses

May 3, 2012 The New York Times: The Campus Tsunami

May 2, 2012 MIT: MIT and Harvard announce edX

April 30, 2012 The Washington Post: What makes health-care and education costs similar to each other — and unlike anything else

April 25, 2012 Inside Higher Ed: What Keeps Us Awake At Night

April 18, 2012 The Daily Pennsylvanian: Penn announces partnership with online courseware provider

April 18, 2012 Inside Higher Ed: Elite Universities' Online Play

April 11, 2012 The Atlantic: Can Online Education Be Both Successful and Good for Us?

March 28, 2012 Salon: “DIY U”: The end of university prestige

Spring 2012 Philanthropy Roundtable: Opening Up the University

March 23, 2012 The Wall Street Journal: Watching the Ivory Tower Topple

March 19, 2012 National Review: The College Cartel

March 7, 2012 The Chronicle of Higher Education: Could Many Universities Follow Borders Bookstores Into Oblivion?

February 24, 2012 Online Courses: Online Education Promotes Strong Minds

February 23, 2012 Times Higher Education: Cap and gown learning on a shoestring budget

February 12, 2012 The Chronicle of Higher Education: A Tech-Happy Professor Reboots After Hearing His Teaching Advice Isn't Working

February 9, 2012 The Chronicle of Higher Education: Universities Must Adjust to Loss of Public Support, Authors Tell Business Deans

February 6, 2012 The Chronicle of Higher Education: MIT’s New Free Courses May Threaten (and Improve) the Traditional Model, Program’s Leader Says

February 6, 2012 The Wall Street Journal: The University Of Adam Smith

February 3, 2012 The Washington Post: An ‘Arab Spring’ of free online higher education

January 23, 2012 Inside Higher Ed: State Support Slumps Again

December 21, 2011 Forbes: M.I.T. Game-Changer: Free Online Education For All

December 14, 2011 The Washington Post: UC-Berkeley and other ‘public Ivies’ in fiscal peril

December 8, 2011 The Chronicle of Higher Education: At Annual Meeting, Graduate-School Administrators Focus on Changing Demographics and Tight Budgets

December 1, 2011 UK students switch to US universities

November 29, 2011 The New York Times: Official Calls for Urgency on College Costs

September 22, 2011 The Chronicle of Higher Education: New Graduate-Student Enrollment Dips for First Time in 7 Years

August 28, 2011 The Chronicle of Higher Education: Online Venture Energizes Vulnerable College

August 17, 2011 The Atlantic: The Debt Crisis at American Colleges

July 14, 2011 Inside Higher Ed: The Inevitable Change Ahead

July 7, 2011 The Economist: How to make college cheaper

June 29, 2011 USA Today: Universities turn to outsourced instructors

May 15, 2011 The Chronicle of Higher Education: Crisis of Confidence Threatens Colleges

May 15, 2011 The Chronicle of Higher Education: College Presidents Are Too Complacent

May 3, 2011 U.S. News & World Report: Higher Education Bubble Will Burst

April 10, 2011 Tech Crunch: Peter Thiel: We're in a Bubble and It's Not the Internet. It's Higher Education.

February 28, 2011 Forbes: Dinosaur U.

February 27, 2011 The Chronicle of Higher Education: Actually Going to Class, for a Specific Course? How 20th-Century.

February 1, 2011 Forbes: Universities on the Brink

July 12, 2012 San Francisco Chronicle: UC online degree proposal rattles academics

September 1, 2009 Fast Company: How Web-Savvy Edupunks Are Transforming American Higher Education

September 5, 2006 Inside Higher Ed: The 20th Century University Is Obsolete