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How to overcome resistance to online education in Higher Ed

Neo LMS

The Open Universities were already a reality in the 20th century, and with the extensive use of the internet, the MOOC phenomenon has grown exponentially over the last decade. How to overcome the resistance to online education in Higher Ed. Read more: 6 Building blocks for a successful edtech strategy.

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2U Buys edX for $800M, In Surprise End to Nonprofit MOOC Provider Started by MIT and Harvard

Edsurge

The deal is a sign that the once-distinct lines between MOOCs, online degree programs and on-campus programs have blurred, argues Sean Gallagher, founder and executive director of Northeastern University’s Center for the Future of Higher Education and Talent Strategy. 2U is all about strategy,” he added.

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MOOCs – Magnificent, Monsters or Malediction

Mark Smithers

Thanks to Kate Bowles ( @KateMfD ) for sending me a link to an open Coursesites web site (free registration) that has been created for the MOOC discussion at the forthcoming Universities Australia 2014 conference. There are six questions in the discussion area; these are: What have been the most significant impacts of MOOCs?

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How to choose the right solution platform for virtual campus management.

Linways Technologies

So to be on the current, institutions should focus on how to engage with the students, how to assure a certain level of quality in teaching-learning, and how digital learning is perceived. Data-Driven Results As an institution, the way you treat education and manage it is different from MOOCs or short-term online courses.

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Scaling Practice-Based Coaching through Micro-credentials

Digital Promise

The Friday Institute for Educational Innovation at North Carolina State University recently scaled access to professional learning content for educators by taking advantage of the Massive Open Online Courses for Educators (MOOC-Eds) format. There are people literally from the other side of the world in our MOOC-Eds.

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What’s the Right Price for an Online Degree?

Edsurge

So it’s worth illuminating various cases for different pricing strategies for online tuition. In fact, I argue that the debate about how to price tuition is among the academy’s most threatening struggles.

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Give Your Traditional Syllabus a Needed Makeover!

Teacher Reboot Camp

Check out their article, How to Create an Infographic Syllabus. I actually did this for one of my Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC). Find out more about mission minded learning in my new book, Hacking Digital Learning Strategies: 10 Ways to Launch EdTech Missions in Your Classroom. Piktochart is a free infographic tool.