The EU has a High Level Group on the Modernisation of Higher Education and they have written an report about new modes of learning and teaching in higher education.
The report starts with an introduction of EU comissioner Androulla Vassiliou. The most… more »
Tag: "online education"
SURF and the Open Education Special Interest Group published a special report on the didactics of open and online education. SURF organised a ‘pressure cook’ session on the didactics of open and online education on 24 June 2014. The aim of this meeting… more »
An important part of our newly established Delft Extension School is Research and Innovation. Under the leadership of our Dean and Director of Education we have a couple of existing faculty that are involved in this, but we are also hiring new people.… more »
This infographics shows 7 habits that teachers should have if they use technology for their teaching. more »
Stanford University published an interesting report (PDF) about their online activities in 2013:
Since the first three Stanford MOOCs were offered in fall 2011, VPOL has awarded 66 faculty seed grants and has helped more than 145 faculty members from a… more »
At the Coursera Partner Conference they announced that the revenue of the Signature Track already exceeded the $ 4 million. This has been achieved through their Coursera certificate track, which, at $30-$100 per course, has seen an average 1.2% conversi… more »
A small but import step for Delft University of Technology. Today we announced the appointments of a Dean of Open and Online Education and a Director of Education for Open and Online Education:
The Executive Board has appointed Dr.ir. Rob Fastenau, De… more »
Alastair Creelman and Linda Renland-Forsman have written an interesting paper on completion rates in online courses:
Statistics are often used to reveal significant differences between online and campus-based education. The existence of online courses… more »
Here a selection of interesting blog and news articles about MOOCs.
The attack of the MOOCs An army of new online courses is scaring the wits out of traditional universities. But can they find a viable business model?
How widely used are MOOC foru… more »
Terry Anderson described a research study about time factors in online learning. The study he describes is done with 80 full time online teachers, teaching 4 online courses during the same semester:
Teaching in any context varies a great deal based o… more »