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10 Highly Selective Colleges Form Consortium to Offer Online Courses – Wired Campus – The Chronicle of Higher Education via kwout
After announcements of the major Ivy League institutions forming loosely structured collaborations in EdX, Coursera and other alternative models we shouldn’t be surprised to see other respected institutions joining forces. When you see the list of the following institutions agreeing to work together to allow their students to share online credit you must finally acknowledge that online learning has begun to disrupt Higher Education:
- Brandeis University
- Duke University
- Emory University
- Northwestern University
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- University of Notre Dame
- University of Rochester
- Vanderbilt University
- Wake Forest University
- Washington University in St. Louis
How can small private Liberal Arts institutions compete with these types of collaborative efforts. Will this be the beginning of the end for the small Liberal Arts University?
With Antic Improvisation, Professors Learn to Share the Classroom Stage – Faculty – The Chronicle of Higher Education via kwout
Ms. McGowan says, to help students prepare for a fluid business climate in which “within five years, they’ll probably be in a job that didn’t even exist when they started college.” That approach, she says, will require improvisational skills among instructors and students alike.
Philadelphia University plans to blend design, engineering and management into a new undergraduate program. Team teaching preparation is only part of the work that 12 faculty have undertaken over the past six months.
