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College credit for online courses gains momentum
Phys.Org
The American Council on Education, a nonprofit organization that represents most of the nation's college and university presidents, is preparing to weigh in on massive open online courses - MOOCs, for short - a new way of teaching and learning that has ...
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Surveys indicate most UW students satisfied with their college education and ...
The Republic
CHEYENNE, Wyo. — A greater percentage of University of Wyoming students are satisfied with their college experience and safety on campus than students at other universities around the nation, according to surveys. Three separate surveys of UW students ...
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Bill Gates Does Higher Education Reform
Washington Monthly (blog)
The trouble with this explanation is that college cost is actually is the real problem. It's the cause of low graduation rates. The main reason students cite for dropping out of college is its high price, either the tuition itself or the fact that they ...
U.S. News & World Report
Colleges Freeze Tuition for Second Consecutive Year
U.S. News & World Report
"We recognize that the U.S. model for higher education is not sustainable, so we can't continue to raise tuition, and have burgeoning loan burdens and have job prospects be uncertain for students," says Lynn Pasquerella, president of the college. [See ...
TIME
The 13 Hidden College Expenses
TIME
With rising tuition rates, the cost of attending college might be more than what many students and parents anticipated when they began saving for a college education. But, for many families tuition is just the tip of the iceberg. There are many ...
NBCNews.com (blog)
Leading colleges announce for-credit, online courses
CNN (blog)
The online education initiative is titled “Semester Online.” According to its consortium, it is the “first of its kind featuring rigorous, innovative, live courses.” Colleges have offered online classes before, but it's the rigor of the curriculum and ...
Online initiative to offer college courses for creditUSA TODAY
10 top universities unveil Semester Online, promising college credit in small ...NBCNews.com (blog)
2U Partners with Top-Tier Schools to Offer Credit-Bearing Online CoursesCity Town Info Education Channel
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College degree still holds sway in weak job market
Chicago Tribune
According to research by the Pew Research Center, a third of Americans between 25 and 29 have college degrees and the lure of better lifetime opportunity is attracting more students to college from virtually every demographic group. "College completion ...
SA college push on national stage
San Antonio Express
Mayor Julian Castro, left, converses with City Year participant Cristina Flores and Rob Mosley, school and education partnership director of City Year, during a two-day conference on college readiness and agenda setting for SA2020 at Cafe College on ...
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NBCNews.com (blog)
Online initiative to offer college courses for credit
USA TODAY
Earlier this week, the American Council on Education announced it would coordinate efforts to study the academic potential of MOOCs, which are largely unregulated, but have quickly emerged as an important development in higher education. Semester ...
10 top universities unveil Semester Online, promising college credit in small ...NBCNews.com (blog)
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Patheos (blog)
College Credit for MOOCs – A Great Possibility? Or the Beginning of the End of ...
Patheos (blog)
I have been watching the growing popularity of MOOCs (“massive open online courses”) with considerable interest. To this point, they are offered for free (mostly) and without college credit. But this may change. According to Tamar Lewin, writing for ...
College credit for online courses gains momentumPhys.Org
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Should MOOCs Be Eligible for College Credit?New York Times (blog)
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