New Policy Lets Anyone Post Materials on iTunesU
Everyone can now use the iTunesU platform to deliver course material, Apple announced on Wednesday. Before, only professors at a university working with iTunesU—which collects free lectures from...
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Berkeley Contributes Online-Learning Platform to edX
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University have each contributed $30-million to the edX online-learning program, but a third university will provide technology instead. The...
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Eye-Tracking Study Finds Students’ Attentiveness Depends on Location,...
The conventional wisdom among educators that students’ attention tends to drift off after 15 minutes is wrong, according to a new study conducted with eye-tracking devices. The study, conducted by...
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At New Online University, Advertisers Will Underwrite Free Degrees
An online degree-granting institution called World Education University, set to open this fall, plans to try an advertiser-driven model to support its free content. “Any Silicon Valley start-up will...
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Student Is Punished for Creating Class-Registration Web Site
University of Central Florida A student at the University of Central Florida has been placed on academic probation for creating a Web site that tells students when a seat becomes available in a given...
View ArticleWeb Site Brings Student Portfolios and Companies Together
An online service opening today offers a new approach to connecting students with potential employers. The service is called Seelio (a portmanteau of “see” and “portfolio”), and it aims to simplify the...
View ArticleGoogle+ in the Classroom, One Year Later
When Google+ made its debut last July, the social-networking site—which includes collaborative features such as videoconference “hangouts” and interest-based “circles” networks—was heralded as a...
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Rice U. Hopes Mix of Grants and ‘Add Ons’ Will Support Free Textbooks
Rice University this year started an unusual textbook-publishing venture whose books are free to download thanks to a mix of grants and revenue from optional “add ons,” such as homework problem sets....
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Students Find E-Textbooks ‘Clumsy’ and Don’t Use Their Interactive Features
Several universities have recently tried a new model for delivering textbooks in hopes of saving students money: requiring purchase of e-textbooks and charging students a materials fee to cover the...
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Florida State U. Instructor Grades Students Based on ‘Klout’ Scores
In early 2010 Todd Bacile started hearing from companies about a new measure they were using to help decide whom to hire: the Klout score, a number that calculates a person’s online influence based on...
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