Competency-Based Education Advances With U.S. Approval of Program (The Chronicle of Higher Education) 04/18/2013
SUNY Signals Major Push Toward MOOCs and Other New Educational Models (The Chronicle of Higher Education) 03/20/2013
University of the future? (The Cincinnati Enquirer) 03/18/2013
Colleges try to make summer school more viable (USA Today) 03/14/2013
Massive Open Online Courses, aka MOOCs, Transform Higher Education and Science (Scientific American) 03/13/2013
Psssst... Looking for a free Ivy League education? (Pennsylvania Gazette) 03/12/2013
More on classroom flipping in colleges (The Washington Post) 03/11/2013
Who Benefits From Online Ed? (Inside Higher Ed) 02/25/2013
The Trouble With Online College (The New York Times) 02/19/2013
Community College Research Studies:
Adaptability to Online Learning: Differences Across Types of Students and Academic Subject Areas
Enhancing Online Course Quality through Multimedia and Interactive Technologies
Online Education as Institutional Myth: Rituals and Realities at Community Colleges
Online Learning: Does It Help Low-Income and Underprepared Students?
Online Learning in the Virginia Community College System
Preparing Students for Online Courses: Why We Need Better Student Readiness Activities
Colleges take new approach to anticipating—and meeting—workforce needs (The Hechinger Report) 02/19/2013
Making Sense of MOOCs (Education Advisory Board) 02/12/2013
Online Education Is Replacing Physical Colleges At A Crazy Fast Pace (TechCrunch) 02/11/2013
Mission, MOOCs, & Money (Association of Governing Boards) January/February 2013
Online Courses: Possibilities and Pitfalls (The New York Times) 01/28/2013
Davos Forum Considers Learning’s Next Wave (The New York Times) 01/27/2013
Revolution Hits the Universities (The New York Times) 01/26/2013
UC joining new wave of online instruction (The Cincinnati Enquirer) 01/25/2013
Over 6.7 Million Students Learning Online (The Sloan Consortium) 01/08/2013
Growth for Online Learning (Inside Higher Ed) 1/8/2013
Liberal arts colleges forced to evolve with market (kypost.com) 12/30/2012
For Whom Is College Being Reinvented? (The Chronicle of Higher Education) 12/17/2012
More Cracks in the Credit Hour (Inside Higher Ed) 12/5/2012
Free, Unless You Want to Pay (Inside Higher Ed) 12/4/2012
Americans Support Higher Ed and Online Degrees, Poll Finds (Inside Higher Ed) 11/28/2012
Change Takes Root in the Desert (The Chronicle of Higher Education) 11/19/2012
Reinventing College (Time) 10/29/2012
College, Reinvented (The Chronicle of Higher Education) 10/15/2012
Challenge and Change (EDUCAUSE Review, vol. 47, no. 5) September/October 2012
George Mehaffy (2012) discusses disruptive innovation for higher education. With a university model designed in the 11th century; the proliferation of confusing missions; the decline in state funding; increases in tuition that are unsustainable; a structural business model that depends on the revenues of lower division courses to support the costs of upper division and graduate courses; and student loan debt that exceeds credit card debt, Mehaffy posits that traditional higher education is facing disruption and may soon be radically reshaped by competitors using new technologies.
GE brings social collaboration to life with Colab (CIO) 8/07/2012
National Center for Academic Transformation
For-Profit and Low-Profit
Public Universities to Offer Free Online Classes for Credit (The New York Times) 1/23/2013
Low-Cost Option for Working Adults (Inside Higher Ed) 12/17/2012
University Of Phoenix To Roll Out Partnerships With Community Colleges (Huff Post) 12/5/2012
Phoenix Reloads (Inside Higher Ed) 10/26/2012
Meet the New For-Profit: the Low-Profit (The Chronicle of Higher Education) 10/14/2012
Kentucky Online Courses
Online education has increased in popularity at Kentucky institutions with about one in three students taking at least one online course annually.
Students flock to online courses (The Enquirer) 11/24/2012
More bachelor’s degrees sought in Kentucky (nky.com) 6/28/2012
Kentucky Virtual Campus & Distance Learning Initiatives (CPE) 9/20/2011
Kentucky Virtual Campus (KYVC)
Khan Academy
The creator of free online video lectures proposes a new higher education model with internships and self-paced learning modules.
Khan Academy Founder Proposes a New Type of College
MOOCs
Several elite institutions, such as Stanford, Harvard, and Duke, are offering free online courses to students numbering in the thousands from across the world. Currently, there is little opportunity for obtaining credit for these courses, although it appears to be evolving in that direction.
California State U. Will Experiment With Offering Credit for MOOCs (The Chronicle of Higher Education) 1/15/2013
MOOCs Assessed, Modestly (Inside Higher Ed) 1/14/2013
The Promise and Perils of Innovation (The Advisory Board Company)
Understanding the MOOC Trend (The Advisory Board Company)
Unlikely Pairing? Wesleyan to offer MOOCs (Inside Higher Ed) 12/6/2012
Coursera Creates Service to Help Its Many Students Find Jobs (Inside Higher Ed) 12/5/2012
College of Future Could Be Come One, Come All (The New York Times) 11/19/2012
Online college courses boom (Courier-journal.com) 11/19/2012
Managing MOOC Credits (University Business) 11/15/2012
Assessing Campus MOOCs - Gates Foundation grant to study (Inside Higher Ed) 11/14/2012
Establishment Opens Door for MOOCs (Inside Higher Ed) 11/14/2012
Elite education for the masses (The Washington Post) 11/3/2012
The Year of the MOOC (The New York Times) 11/2/2012
MOOCs for Credit (Inside Higher Ed) 10/29/2012
Semester Online Consortium
Introductory web-based courses are being offered by a consortium of 10 universities, including Northwestern University and Notre Dame. The classes will be small and will be for credit at the cost of their regular tuition.
College consortium taking classes online (Chicago Tribune) 11/16/2012
Elite Online Courses for Cash and Credit (Inside Higher Ed) 11/16/2012
University Consortium to Offer Small Online Courses for Credit (The New York Times) 11/15/2012
Straighterline
StraighterLine offers undergraduate courses for $99 per month. Although not yet accredited, course credit can transfer to other institutions through the ACE Credit service, and ETS and CAE offer skills tests for students who have taken their courses to demonstrate competencies.
Freelance Professors (Inside Higher Ed) 12/14/2012
StraighterLine to Broaden Course Platform (Inside Higher Ed) 4/13/2012
Beware: Alternative Certification Is Coming (The Chronicle of Higher Education) 01/23/2012
