Closing the skills gap with online learning
As everyone entitled to a job? Or do individuals need to make sure they have the skills needed by employers, or the skills needed to create their own job? One of the main reasons for the rising income...
View ArticleOnline learning opportunities
Contact North | Contact Nord online learning centre is open for students to register for online learning programs and courses. As more programs and courses become available online, students in...
View ArticleOnline learning ‘advantageous’ for universities
Online learning offers students of all ages an opportunity to ease back into education or learn a new skill at their own pace and in a manner that fits around other commitments. However, attitudes...
View ArticleThis is not just any MOOC…
News today that M&S – knicker retailer to the masses – has joined the MOOC revolution. The high street store is launching a MOOC with the University of Leeds on the Futurelearn platform. The three...
View ArticleOnline education clicks with African students
Fresh faced and full of energy, five recent graduates sit around the conference room table. They all hail from a different African country, and they all have big dreams about revamping education in...
View ArticleE-learning: Launch of a new learning solution
CasaEducation, a startup based in Casablanca, which represents “Edinburgh Napier University” provides an opportunity for students and professionals resident in Morocco to obtain a British degree...
View ArticleWhat to Ask Before Joining an Online Learning Program
Students looking to achieve a work-life balance while expanding their higher education horizons have plenty of options today, thanks to the growth of online education. Universities have been making...
View ArticleThe MOOCs to rescue your career
Already widespread in the Anglo-Saxon world – most universities offer (Stanford, Princeton, London, etc.) – the MOOCs are growing increasingly Francophonie. At UCL for example, the first available...
View ArticleE-learning in Higher Education initiated a systematic yet
Professor in the field of technology and e-learning instruction, Prof. Paulina Pannen, Ph.D., said the implementation of distance learning methods and e-learning in the majority of universities in...
View ArticleThe Future of Higher Education
With a number of leading for-profits beset by legal and financial woes, enrollment in online education leveling off, and MOOCs off the front pages, one might reasonably conclude that the threats to...
View Article7 Experimental Interfaces That Show the Future of UI Design
Trade shows might be sexier, but there’s no beating academic conferences for weird new tech. Today, at the 27th Software and Technology Symposium in Honolulu, dozens of researchers presented a glimpse...
View ArticleClosing the skills gap with online learning
As everyone entitled to a job? Or do individuals need to make sure they have the skills needed by employers, or the skills needed to create their own job? One of the main reasons for the rising income...
View ArticleBlackboard or wipe Tablet: How digital is the university?
Since 2010, 26 students have done their bachelor’s degree at the Salzburg Institute of Nursing Science and Practice. In their three-year study period, the 26 only three times at the university were....
View ArticleHow MOOCs Can Help You Move Up The Ladder
The cost of attending a top MBA program is estimated to be $100,000 per year. The cost of attaining some valuable information and gaining high-end skills is that expensive? No wonder MOOCs (Massive...
View ArticleUniversity makes tablets central to learning
A university in Illinois is giving a Windows-based Dell tablet to each new entering student as an “electronic textbook” to use in study of core academic materials in digital form. The Southern Illinois...
View ArticleFuture of varsity education: Online courses plus residential school
MILLIONS of students are currently taking online university courses. Some of them are even free and offered by the world’s top universities.Moocs or massive open online courses worry some who see them...
View ArticleMOOCs: Forging diversity and innovation
The world of education, workplace learning, talent development – in short anyone and everyone connected with learning in some way – are talking, debating, evaluating, exploring, and generally trying to...
View ArticleHow administrators can enhance online learning programs
Administrators and administrative structure can not only vastly improve online program efficiency, but boost enrollment by thousands of students. At least, that’s what a new study of private, nonprofit...
View ArticleOnline learning: More guidance is now available to the growing community of...
Online learning has lost its image of being low-cost and low-quality, mainly because universities and other providers have worked hard to replicate, as far as possible, the traditional experience of...
View ArticleDemystifying the MOOC
When massive open online courses first grabbed the spotlight in 2011, many saw in them promise of a revolutionary force that would disrupt traditional higher education by expanding access and reducing...
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