‘MOOCs, High Technology and Higher Learning’
Author discusses book offering a critical analysis of massive open online courses from a social science perspective.
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Chrysler expands free tuition program to include employees’ families
In May, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) made news by announcing it would offer all employees free tuition at Strayer University.
How a 6 month ‘degree’ could put you ahead of the competition
While college degrees take years to complete and cost many thousands of dollars, Google is now backing a scheme to get people a "nanodegree" in just six months.
‘Long history’ of students going to university ‘beginning to erode’
Universities have gone “too far” into the business model of providing full-time residential degrees to be able to “adapt” provision to offer the higher technical and professional education needed to boost productivity.
Nation’s unrest over campus diversity reaches UNLV
For weeks, high-profile protests at college campuses across the country have forced schools to have uncomfortable conversations about race and diversity.
A Class Implodes Over Race
Several administrators have lost their jobs in the last month amid campus protests over issues of race.
International schools ride booming demand in China
Victor Xian was five years old when his family emigrated to Australia from Guangzhou in 2007.
Fees lifted for private Chinese school kids
State Council makes all students equal as it promotes govt support for tuition, books
A Different Kind of Textbook Debt
Months after being acquired by Follett, campus store operator Neebo is still sending students to collection agencies over textbooks the students say they have already returned.
Minnesota schools get reprieve on new dual-credit mandates
College and university sponsors of dual-credit classes that allow Minnesota high school students to earn college credits now can have an extra five years to meet new requirements for the class instructors.
