The College of St. Scholastica has announced it’s expanding into Arizona — making it one of the few Minnesota private nonprofit colleges to have sites out of state. Scholastica’s vice president for strategic initiatives, Don Wortham, says the Duluth-based school has opened its first out-of-state site at a higher-education center in a suburb of Phoenix. Read more →
Todd Bloom, chief academic officer at Hobsons, an education company, guest blogs on LearnMoreMN about what could be a challenging new responsibility for those schools using Massive Open Online Courses: As institutions find creative ways to use MOOCs to broaden educational opportunities for all students, colleges and universities need to go a step beyond putting in Read more →
In researching my piece on Massive Open Online Courses — known my the rather thuggish-sounding acronym of MOOCs — for this afternoon’s edition of All Things Considered, I spoke with the folks at the University of Minnesota. Even though the College of St. Scholastica is apparently working on a course, MOOCs tend to be the Read more →
During the flap between the state Office of Higher Education (OHE) and Coursera, the website offering Massive Open Online Courses, I had a quick talk with Coursera’s cofounder, Andrew Ng. You may remember that Coursera offers these free, noncredit Massive Open Online Courses — known as “MOOCs.” The company’s prestigious partner colleges and universities (such Read more →
OHE Coursera Letters You may have read the articles in The Chronicle of Higher Education and Slate about how the Minnesota Office of Higher Education is putting Coursera through the wringer. The Chronicle says the state recently gave “the boot” to the well-known provider of massive open online courses (MOOCs) for running afoul of Minnesota Read more →
This week U.S. News & World Report released its first rankings of online programs — both at the undergraduate and graduate levels. The magazine ranked schools overall and in three areas: faculty credentials and training; student engagement and assessment; and student services and technology. You can read more about the methodology here. As usual, take Read more →
St. Cloud State University sounds like it’s working on some sort of boost in how it and the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities (MnSCU) system provides online education. President Earl Potter is teaming up with Provost Devinder Malhotra to “reinvent” the online game, the school announced yesterday. In a news release, Malhotra says: “The Read more →
Community colleges trying to get a better share of the online degree market have a new tool to help them fight through the clutter: OnlineCommunityColleges.org. It’s the fledgling product of an online education consortium comprising American Association of Community Colleges member colleges, Community College Times reports. When it launches late this year, it should put Read more →
Forum question: What’s your vision for e-learning? It’s probably not as sharp as it should be. We need to evaluate the landscape around e-learning very carefully. A lot of (institutions) have moved very aggressively, and being third or fourth is not the best thing strategically. We need to have an advantage. … We need to Read more →
This guy gives new meaning to the term professional student: I have completed countless online courses. Students provide me with passwords and user names so I can access key documents and online exams. In some instances, I have even contributed to weekly online discussions with other students in the class. This is the professional paper Read more →
Alex Friedrich