College Crackup and the Online Future

In the coming decade, emerging technologies will thoroughly transform higher education. Although distance learning and computer-assisted education have been around since the 1960s, financial pressures are forcing institutions to develop aggressive online programs.

New Equation For Free Education: MITx + HARVARDx = edX

Just five months ago the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) introduced MITx, an online learning platform offering free online courses for anyone, anywhere to earn certificates in distance coursework. I covered the development in my popular Forbes piece, “MIT Game-Changer: Free Online Education For All.” Now, according to Svea Herbst-Bayliss in Yahoo! News, Harvard has partnered with ...

WGU Receives 21st Century Best Practices in Distance Learning from USDLA

Online university honored for third time in four years at USDLA 2012 International Conference ST. LOUIS, May 1, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- For the second straight year, Western Governors University, www.wgu.edu, has received the United States Distance Learning Association...

Polycom’s Marci Powell Inducted Into United States Distance Learning Association Hall of Fame

Polycom, Inc. , the global leader in open standards-based unified communications , announced today that Marci Powell, global director for Education at Polycom, wa

Medill to launch online IMC graduate program

By: Chris Meyer by Chris Meyer ...