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- Audrey Watters,"The Flipped Classroom" (Inside Higher Ed, 12/18/12)
- Jeffrey R. Young, "New Platform Lets Professors Set Prices for Their Online Courses" (Chronicle, 12/12/12) ... from Straighter-Line, like Udemy, but not free
- Nick Anderson, "Georgetown to offer free online courses" (Washington Post, 12/9/12) ... Georgetown joins edX
- Alexandra Tilsley, "Unlikely Pairing?" (Inside Higher Ed, 12/6/12) ... small liberal arts colleges join MOOC consortia ... Wellesely College joins edX; Wesleyan joins Coursera
- Steve Kolowich, "Elite Online Courses for Cash and Credit" (Inside Higher Ed, 11/16/12) ... same story as Seligson's (below)
- Alisha Azevedo, "10 Highly Selective Colleges form Consortium to Offer Online Courses" (Chronicle, 11/16/12) ... same story as Seligson's (below)
- Hannah Seligson, "University Consortium to Offer Small Online Courses for Credit" (NY Times, 11/15/12) ... "Semester Online" = the "anti MOOC" ... courses will have small enrollments, cost $4000, will be offered for credit to university's own students, and to outsiders ... will use "Hollywood Squares" format
- Steve Kolowich, "Assessing Campus MOOCs" (Inside Higher Ed, 11/14/12) ... Gates Foundation funding assessments of MOOCs in flipped classes at U of MD system to lower costs
- Paul Fain, "Establishment Opens Doors for MOOCs" (Inside Higher Ed, 11/14/12) ... American Council on Education may recommend credit for MOOCs
- Jeffrey R. Young, "American Council on Education May Recommend Some Coursera Offerings for College Credit" (Chronicle, 11/14/12)
- Laura Pappano, "The Year of the MOOC" (NY Times, 11/4/12)
- David Nagel, "Instructure Creates Free 'Canvas Network' for Online Courses" (Campus Technology, 1/1/12)
- Alisha Azevedo, "Course-Management Companies Challenge MOOC Providers" (Chronicle, 11/1/12) ... Blackboard (Course Sites)and Instructure (Canvas Network) will host MOOCs for any institution, not just elites
- University of Alberta, "Ualberta, Udacity team up for online learning" (10/30/12) ... machine learning researchers help develop platform for MOOCs
- Paul Fain, "Exporting Online" (Inside Higher Ed, 10/20/12) ... California community college will use courses from UMass Online, Penn State, and U. of Illinois ... perhaps some MOOCs
- Alisha Azevedo, "San Jose State U. Says Replacing Live Lectures with Videos Increased Test Scores" (Chronicle, 10/18/12)
- Alisha Azevedo, "U. Of Texs System is Latest to Sign Up with edX for Online Courses" (Chronicle, 10/16/12)
- David Mildenberg, "University of Texas Joins Harvard-MIT edX Online Venture" (Bloomberg, 10/15/12) ... interesting details about financing of edX and Coursera
- Paul Fain, "Brand New Online Heavies" (Inside Higher Ed, 10/10/12) ... non-profit colleges & universities having high online investments and enrollments
- Marc Parry, "Five Ways that edX Could Change the World" (Chronicle, 10/1/12)
- Glenn A. Hartz (op ed), "Why I Changed My Mind About Teaching Online" (Chronicle, 10/1/12)
- Katherine Mangin, "MOOC Mania" (Chronicle, 10/1/12)
- Goldie Blumenstyk, "One Business School Is Itself a Case Study in the Economics of Online Education" (Chronicle, 10/1/12)
- Alisha Azevedo, "In Colleges' Rush to Try MOOC's, Faculty Are Not Always in the Conversation" (Chronicle, 9/27/12)
- Quick Takes, "Saylor Teams Up With Google's MOOC" (Inside Higher Ed, 9/24/12)
- Paul Fain, "Mature Market for Online Education" (Inside Higher Ed, 9/19/12) ... online leveling off ... same insight as Sloan last year
- Steve Kolowich, "MOOC Host Expands" (Inside Higher Ed, 9/19/12)... Coursera adds 16 more universities
- Paul Fain, "Gates, MOOCs, and Remediation" (Inside Higher Ed, 9/ 14/12)
- Alisha Azeveda, "Stanford U. Releases New Open-Source Online-Education Platform" (Chronicle, 9/14/12
- Steve Kolowich, "The MOOC Survivors" (Inside Higher Ed, 9/12/12) ... preliminary stats about students who probably passed M.I.T.'s Intro to Circuit Design
- Steve Kolowich, "Learning From One Another" (Inside Higher Ed, 8/30/12)... students grading each other in a MOOC from Coursera
- Steve Kolowich, "Digital Faculty: Professors and Technology, 2012" (Inside Higher Ed, 8/24/12)
- Jeffrey R. Young, "What a Tech Start-Up’s Data Say About What Works in Classroom Forums" (Chronicle, 8/22/12) ... how much participation, how much anonimity, etc
- Doug Lederman, "Cal State Goes Online, Slowly" (Inside Higher Ed 8/22/12)
- Tamar Lewin, "Free Online Course Will Rely on Multiple Sites" (NY Times, 8/21/12)
- Jeffrey R. Young, "Coursera Hits 1 Million Students, With Udacity Close Behind" (Chronicle, 8/13/12)
- Steve Kolowich, "The Online Pecking Order" (Inside Higher Ed, 8/2/12) ... converting MOOCs to credit towards degrees ... see Paul Fain's previous article below
- Elise Young, "Historically Black, Online" (Inside Higher Ed, 8/1/12)
- Steve Kolowich, "The Online Student" (Inside Higher Ed, 7/25/12) ... most are white women earning business degrees and earning good salaries
- Jeffrey R. Young, "Berkeley Joins 'edX 'Effort to offer Free Open Courses" (Chronicle, 7/24/12)
- Tamar Lewin, "Berkeley to Join the Free Online Learning Partnership edX" (NY Times, 7/24/12)
- Jeffrey R. Young, "Inside the Coursera Contract: How an Upstart Company Might Profit From Free Courses" (Chronicle, 7/20/12)
- Tamar Lewin, "One Course, 150,000 Students" (NY Times, 7/20/12) ... interview with M.I.T edX Director Anant Argarwal
- Marc Parry, "College Degrees, Designed by the Numbers" (Chronicle, 7/18/12) ... data mining helps students select courses, adaptive LMS, etc
- Steve Kolowich, "Without Credit" (Inside Higher Ed, 7/18/12) ... conrary to the NY Times, Washington University will not offer course credit for its MOOCs
- Tamar Lewin, "Universities Reshaping Education on the Web" (NY Times, 7/17/12) ... Coursera's addition of 12 partners
- Nick DeSantis, "After Leadership Crisis Fueled by Distance-Ed Debate, UVa Will Put Free Classes Online" (Chronicle, 7/17/12) ... Coursera's addition of 12 new partners, including UVa
- Steve Kolowith, "Into the Fray" (Inside Higher Ed, 7/17/12) ... Coursera adds 12 more partners, including UVa
- Jeffrey Young, "Customization is the Future of Teaching, Harvard Researcher Says" (Chronicle, 6/27/12) ... use of eLearning in flipped classrooms
- Jeffrey Young, "Online Classes See Cheating Go High-Tech" (Chronicle, 6/6/12)
- Paul Fain, "Not Just Degrees" (Inside Higher Ed, 6/6/12) ... certificates based on credit courses
- Steve Kolowich, "Who Takes MOOCs" (Inside Higher Ed, 6/5/12) ... lots of foreign students
- Katie Mangan, "Study Shows Promise and Challenges of Hybrid Courses" (Chronicle, 5/22/12)
- Steve Kolowich, "Score One for the Robo-Tutors" (Inside Higher Ed, 5/22/12)
- Nick DeSantis, "Purdue Kicks Off Global Online-Education Project" (Chronicle, 5/14/12)
- Steve Kolowich, "MOOCs and Machines" (Inside Higher Ed, 5/10/12)... with embedded podcast of interview with Candace Thille, Director of Carnegie-Mellon's Open Learning Initiative
- Tamar Lewin, "Law School Plans to Offer Web Courses for Master's" (NY Times, 5/9/12)
- Kevin Carey, "The X Factor" (Chronicle/Wired section, 5/4/12) ... impact of Harvard's entry into MOOC with M.I.T. in edX
- David Brooks, "The Campus Tsunami" (NY Times, 5/3/12)
- Steve Kolowitch, "Massive Courses, Massive Data" (Inside Higher Ed, 5/3/12)
- Nick DeSantis, "Harvard and M.I.T. Put $60 Million into New Platform for Free Online Courses" (Chronicle, 5/3/12)
- Tamar Lewin, "Harvard and M.I.T. Team Up to Offer Free Online Courses" (NY Times, 5/2/12)
- Steve Kolowich, Elite Universities' Online Play" (Inside Higher Ed, 4/18/12)
- Nick DeSantis, "Venture-Backed Enterprise Seeks to Satisfy Global Demand for Elite Education, Online" (Chronicle, 4/4/12)
- Jeff Selingo, "A Liberal Arts Consortium Experiments with Course Sharing" (Chronicle, 4/4/12) ... blended, synchronous
- Doug Lederman, "An Elite University ... From Scratch?" (Inside Higher Ed, 4/4/12)
- Blackboard Press Release, "We now support multiple learning platforms -- commercial and open source" (Blackboard 3/26/12)
- Steve Kolowich, "An LMS for Elite MOOCs" (Inside Higher Ed, 3/7/12)
- Steve Kolowich, "Cal State's Online Plan" (Inside Higher Ed,3/5/12) ... a hub like North Carolina
- Tamar Lewin, "Massive Online Open Courses -- MOOCs" (NY Times, 3/4/12)
- Marc Parry "Treating Higher Ed's Cost Disease with Supersize Online Courses" (Chronicle, 2/26/12)
- GradHacker, "Flipping out? What you need to know about the Flipped Classroom" (Inside Higher Ed, 2/21/12)
- Scott Merrill, "Nature Publishing Group Officially Launches New Interactive Textbook" (Tech Crunch, 2/12/12)
- Steve Kolowich, "Breaking Virtual Ground -- MITx" (Inside Higher Ed, 2/13/12)
- Jeffrey R. Young, "MIT's New Free Courses May Threaten (and Improve) the Traditional Model, Program's Leader Says" (Chronicle, 2/7/12)
- Paul Fain, "Big Data's Arrival" (Inside Higher Ed, 2/1/12)
- Kevin Carey, "MIT Mints a Valuable New Form of Academic Currency" (Chronicle, 1/24/12)
- Steve Kolowich, "Massive Courses, Sans Stanford" (Inside Higher Ed, 1/24/12)
- Marc Parry, "M.I.T. Will Offer Certificates to Outside Students in Online Courses" (Chronicle, 1/1/12)
- Paul Fain, "Letting Go of Lecture" (Inside Higher Ed, 12/23/11) ... alternative hybrid/blended approach to developmental math
- News Office, "MIT launches online learning initiative, MITx" (MIT Web, 12/19/11)
- Anne Eisenberg, "Making Science Leap from the Page" (NY Times, 12/18/11)
- Steve Kolowich, "Online Grows, Doubts Persist"(Inside Higher Ed, 11/9/11)
- Nick DeSantis, "3 Start-Ups Announcements from the Education Innovation Summit" (Chronicle, 4/19/12)
- Paul Fain, "New Front in For-Profit Battle" (Inside Higher Ed, 4/19/12)
- Rip Empson, "2tor Raises $26M D Round To Put Online Degrees In The Same Class As Their On-Campus Rivals" TechCrunch, 4/2/12)
- Nick DeSantis, "Meet the Ed-Tech Start-Ups(Chronicle, 4/2/12)
- Steve Kolowich, "The Nonprofit Online Helpers" (Inside Higher Ed, 3/30/12)
- Paul Fain, "The For-Profit Next Door" (Inside Higher Ed, 3/20/12) ... Rasmussen College ... This was one of the roots of Deltak-Innovation
- Nick DeSantis, "A Boom Time for Education Startups" (Chronicle, 3/19/12)
- Paul Fain, "For-Profit Group Tries New Approach, Again" (Inside Higher Ed, 3/2/12)
- Goldie Blumenstyk, "Nation's Biggest For-Profit Colleges Suffer Enrollment Declines" (Chronicle, 3/13/12)
- Goldie Blumenstyk, "For-Profit College Association's New Leader Plans Charm Offensive" (Chronicle, 3/2/12)
- Paul Fain, "More Selective For-Profits" (Inside Higher Ed, 11/11/11) ... contains table showing recent decline in for-profit enrollments and profits
- Rachel Wiseman, "Enrollments Plunge at Many For-Profit Colleges" (Chronicle, 8/19/11)
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