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College presidents dubious of Obama's plan to promote educationUS President Obama's proposed plan to create a new rating system for colleges in which they would be evaluated on affordability and access has been received with skepticism among college presidents. Only 19% think it will have a positive impact on their institution.
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edX drops job-placement programAfter a failed pilot job-placement program in which edX tried to match its high-performing students to companies, but none was hired, it is giving up on job-placement services.
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University of Utah considers using open source textbooksThe cost of textbooks has risen by 812% since 1978. An Academic Senate committee at the University of Utah has voted to explore saving students money by using open-source textbooks — books licensed to be downloaded for free online. The committee aims to cut student costs by $500 a year.
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Welsh university launches MOOC coursesCardiff University has become one of the first in the UK to offer MOOCs, and it is hoped that more people will get a taste of higher education in Wales.
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Artist Rooms launches its first MOOCArtist Rooms has launched Warhool MOOC in partnership with University of Edinburgh, Tate, and the National Galleries of Scotland. The course would teach its learners the life and work of Andy Warhol, his international standing, thematic concerns and creative innovations and his relationship to major artistic movements of the 20th century.
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The Economics of MOOcsUniversities are highly competitive and they invest on MOOC courses as a way to find and recruit high performers. Within three years of its birth MOOCs is being offered in 24 out of 25 top colleges according to U.S. News and World Report.Though very expensive in production MOOCs could bring high-quality education to the underserved.
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New type of Credentails would evaluate students of online learningMany students are pursuing higher education completely online. This breakthrough brings lot of students to learn with the rise in technology and the changes it has brought to higher education. The quality of digital learning could be maintained with new types of credentials.
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Chinese University to offer courses thru CourseraShanghai Jiaotong University recently released two courses on Coursera. The move made by the university is seen as a new trend for free online teaching in the country. “This new mode of online courses is more like an adventure. If you want to learn at the senior level, you have to first finish the easier ones. We have discussion boards where students and instructors can freely discuss their questions. This is expected from a powerful learning community” says Huang Zhen, vice president of Shanghai Jiaotong University.
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Educational Technology's 5 biggest challenges definedDue to the evolution of education technology market startups, universities and large education companies are all targeting online students. The questions about the long-term viability of predominate ed tech business models, other major challenges in the field, from technological accessibility to subjects not-well-suited for online learning are explained.
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Colleges need to track the effeciveness of the online programsThe recent study by WICHE Cooperative for Educational Technologies states that though colleges and universities are increasingly building online coures they fail to collect crucial data needed to track the effectiveness of programs. The report reads, “most troubling and, somewhat unexpected finding was the serious limitations in the availability of data regarding completion rates”.