Distance Learning

UT System To Join Online Course Collaboration With Harvard, MIT

The University of Texas System is entering the wide open world of MOOCs. Yep, that’s a real thing.

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Thousands Enroll In U.Va.'s Free Online Courses

The University of Virginia's new non-credit online courses have drawn thousands of students but professors wonder how many will complete the offerings.

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Mobiltel Partners with eCornell for Leadership Training

Bulgaria's telecom leader to offer Ivy League professional development training online.

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University Of Oklahoma Launches Website Offering Lectures On American Government

The University of Oklahoma plans to launch a new website, freedom.ou.edu, on Tuesday. The site will offer free video lectures on topics dealing with American government and constitutional law, produced through the university's Institute for the American Constitutional Heritage.

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Online College Revolution To Leave Empire Builders With Big Bills (Opinion)

You might be wild about the coming revolution in higher education, might see it as a democratizing force that will transform the globe as it lift millions out of poverty for the price of a few dollars per student and a laptop computer.

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Ball State Thinking Big With Free Online Comic Book Class

Course is expected to draw at least 1,000 students and raise university's profile

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The Other Side to Technology in Higher Education

There has been substantial discussion in the past few years about how technology is beginning to move beyond older concepts of distance learning and technology-assisted education to new arrangements like Coursera and the MOOC innovations and experimentations at institutions like Harvard and MIT.

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