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Ministry of EU Council suggests internationalising Higher EducationThe member states of EU have been advised by the council to make efforts to internationalise their Higher Education sectors. The European Education Ministers meeting at Brussels on Nov. 25 also discussed on open educational resources and digital learning. Dainius Pavalkis, Lithuanian Education Minister, the Chair of the discussion said that there is a need to look at the development of European Education when world class universities were offering MOOCs to anyone anywhere in the world.
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Blackboard – LMS to be replaced by UOUniversity of Oregon (UO) and Oregon State University are on the verge of changing their learning management system (LMS) Blackboard. Ian McNeely, a UO history associate professor and associate dean of undergraduate education in the College of Arts and Sciences said “Blackboard is a rickety piece of software.”
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Will professors be bygone?Growth in online learning goes with decrease in full-time tenure-track positions of professors. Economic uncertainty has induced colleges to convert traditional classes into online courses. The role of college professors has changed. The logic seems to be, why hire a Ph.D when you can show pre-recorded lectures, even though this results in making education impersonal and unorganized.
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University of Florida's pioneering effort in digital educationStarting January 2014, the University of Florida offers four-year programs to its online course offerings. The programs will be unveiled in a conference on Dec. 3-4 2013 attended by leaders from around the US and faculty and administrators from the University and other State University System schools. New technologies and the ways they can be deployed to strengthen the learning experience, and issues surrounding online education will be addressed in the discussions.
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Examtime.com: Online software platform for learning resourcesExamtime.com is a platform for students and teachers to create individualised learning resources and share them with others. It provides features such as Mind Maps, flashcards & quizzes, and aims to become the largest site for creating and discovering learning resources.
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Can MOOCs become a credit worthy qualification?Currently MOOCs do not count towards college credit. In order to demonstrate learning outcomes and make online education experience count, new forms of student authentication and assessment are being explored.
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More students take online courses at University of MissouriThe number of students taking online courses across the University of Missouri System rose by 26% in 2013. MU has invested $10 million in developing online programs. System-wide, 10% of degrees are earned completely online, and the number is expected to grow.
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Nanotechnology course in Arabic evokes interestThousands of people from Arab countries have expressed interest in an Arabic language course in nanotechnology offered by Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. The course will begin on the online education platform Coursera in March 2014. The course includes short lecture segments, illustrations and animationst.
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Online MBA from UK UniversityUK's Kingston University has launched an online MBA program, joining over 20 UK universities that offer similar courses for students worldwide. The new course has attracted interest from over 70 countries.
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Can the MOOC language barrier be broken?With online courses mainly in English, cultural and language barriers pose a challenge to global online education. An a response, China has seen the growth of platforms that bring MOOC users together, and enable them to collaborate and assist each other with translation.