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Learning Studios
The new waterfront campus of Toronto's George Brown College features gorgeous views and new "learning studios" which incorporate more flexible seating, to permit instructors to segue smoothly back and...
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Competency-Based Degrees
In 1997, the governors of 19 states collectively launched a revolutionary new university, and put their own name on it: "Western Governors University." WGU has grown to 35,000 students, who largely...
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Knewton for Developmental Math
Arizona State University, the largest public campus in North America, finds that its incoming students are frequently under-prepared in mathematics and require developmental math courses. Several...
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Intense Residency “Boot Camp”
Royal Roads University, a public university in Victoria BC, launched with a unique mandate to provide undergraduate degree completion, and professional masters degrees, to working professionals....
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Compressed “SuperCourses”
Brock University has found successful a compressed delivery model for several courses, like "Introduction to Community Health Sciences," that accelerates a standard 8-month course down to just 2 weeks...
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The “Block Method”
Quest University was established by David Strangway, former president of UofT and UBC, as a unique independent undergraduate liberal arts and sciences university that would offer a powerful...
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Learning in Virtual Environments
Second Life is an online virtual world open to the public (although its demands for hardware and bandwidth are significant, access is free), and many universities jumped on the bandwagon early on to...
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Generate Revenue Online
The University of Massachusetts is one of the most successful institutions in the online space, generating $37 million in additional revenue from 33,900 online students in 2009. uMass reports a...
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Smart Textbooks
In January 2013, McGraw-Hill unveiled its "SmartBook," which it calls the world's first self-paced, non-linear textbook for higher education, as part of its LearnSmart Advantage suite. Although...
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Employer Input into Applicant Screening
Saskatchewan's Northlands College reports great success at placing graduates of their Underground Mining Core Training program - at least partly because of an usual approach to screening applicants....
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UoPeople & UC Berkeley announce articulation
In a major step forward for the tuition-free online school, top associate degree grads from the University of the People will be able to transfer into the University of California at Berkeley....
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U of Phoenix lays off 470 more employees
The struggling online university, being sold for $1.1 Billion, lays off more staff after almost 900 were cut last June. Enrolment at the University of Phoenix peaked at 460,000 in 2010, and is...
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Coursera bundles MOOCs into MBAs
Online MOOC provider Coursera's CEO Richard Levin tells the PIE News how their MOOCs are bundled into "specializations," and how those can be bundled into MBAs... for just $2,000. The PIE News The...
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Online historical atlas reveals migration patterns
"American Panorama" explores major social developments in time and space. American Panorama The post Online historical atlas reveals migration patterns appeared first on Eduvation.
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Open access journal FACETS launches
Canadian Science Publishing says their new online, multidisciplinary, open journal will help to accelerate and democratize science. CSP Blog The post Open access journal FACETS launches appeared first...
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George Brown opens YouTube CreatorSpace
Toronto's George Brown College opens a new "YouTube CreatorSpace". YouTube now has 9 incubators worldwide that offer training, networking and production help to would-be artists, musicians and...
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Virtual field trips on Mars Experience Bus
Lockheed Martin unveils the world's first "immersive virtual reality vehicle", which can simulate almost 200 square miles of the Martian surface, projected onto bus windows. The goal is to inspire the...
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Triple MOOC engagement via Facebook Groups
A new study finds that MOOC students are almost three times as engaged, much longer pre- and post-course, using Facebook groups rather than Coursera's built-in collaboration tools. Online Learning...
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MIT Online Ed report urges “Learning Engineers”
MIT's informative new report from the Online Education Policy Initiatives includes the recommendation that "Learning Engineers" be hired to bridge the domains of instructors, curriculum designers, and...
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AI Tutor at Georgia Tech passes the Turing test
"Jill Watson" was 1 of 9 teaching assistants in an online grad course in Artificial Intelligence at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She performed admirably, and nobody suspected she wasn't a...
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