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Will Online Ever Conquer Higher Ed?

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If online weren’t in the picture, on-campus enrollments, as reported in the most recent U.S. million between 2012 and 2016, says Jeff Seaman, co-director of the Babson Survey Research Group, who has been tracking the country’s virtual education lifeline for 15 years. Distance ed is saving higher ed.” They rose 5.6

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Can online learning level the AP playing field for rural kids?

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Photo: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. Holmes County Central High School is one of eight rural schools participating in a new, blended learning AP Physics program. Photo: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. million online courses in 2014-15. million online courses in 2014-15. LEXINGTON, Miss.

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Coursera’s IPO Filing Shows Growing Revenue and Loss During a Pandemic

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-based online education provider is faring as it prepares to go public. Coursera reported $293.5 Coursera was incorporated in 2012 but got its start a year earlier, when Andrew Ng, then a computer science professor at Stanford University, launched a free machine learning class online.

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Online Education Isn’t the Sideshow. It’s the Main Event.

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It was the institutions that had existing digital education investments and strategies that were truly ahead of the game. In fact, HolonIQ recently reported there are now 700 universities working with 200 partners to deliver high-quality online learning to students. That’s only going to grow. I couldn’t agree more.

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California Could Soon Have Its First Fully-Online Community College

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Jerry Brown called for spending $120 million to create the online institution within the 114-campus California Community College system. million students earn credentials through more-flexible and affordable digital learning options. The governor has long supported the idea of an online community college in California.

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Moving From 5% to 85% Completion Rates for Online Courses

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MOOCs, shorthand for massive open online courses, have been widely critiqued for their miniscule completion rates. Industry reports and instructional designers alike typically report that only between 5 to 15 percent of students who start free open online courses end up earning a certificate.

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Pandemic May (Finally) Push Online Education Into Teacher Prep Programs

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She’s the co-founder and co-editor of the Journal of Online Learning Research , which publishes peer-reviewed studies about K-12 online education. and Pearson, reports the Snapshot 2020 annual report from the Digital Learning Collaborative. Sometimes we have to really recruit manuscripts.”

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