Nowadays, many people are taking online courses either for self improvement or earning a career credential. But not all will become a success online student and complete the online learning program. Y...

The Templeton Foundation is best-known for supporting scholarship at the intersection of religion and science, and awarding one of the world’s richest prizes.

North Carolina State University, which recently awarded an $80,000 increase to Mary Easley, says it misinterpreted the system’s policy and failed to get the required approval.

At times we come at crossroads in our life when we need to decide which path to choose so that it enhances our careers. At times we think that online career colleges are not right for us but if you lo...

Welcome to the world of online degree colleges! Courtesy these colleges, now you need not have to attend 3 hours of lectures sitting in a classroom for two to three years in order to attain a degree. ...

Texas defensive driving course material used to be something that you could only get in one place: a stuffy, musty classroom. But with the advent of the world wide web, there are new and exciting ...

Chris shook my brain awake this morning with his reflections on change and Shirky and I’m still trying to sort through some of his finer points. Suffice to say, that it’s among the best posts I’ve read this year because it articulates so clearly where much of this is at and, perhaps, where it needs [...] SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Accepting “Predictably Mediocre”", url: "http://weblogg-ed.com/2008/accepting-predictably-mediocre/" });

There are many challenges for students and universities alike with regard to plagiarism and the Internet. Because I often publish articles and other types of work from my online management course on t...

There are so many important lessons for children to learn. There are the standard things that they are taught in school, reading, mathematics, history, writing and other topics that children need to k...

The scholar, at a conservative Presbyterian seminary in Pennsylvania, is accused of violating his faculty oath.

I've been harping on this for a while - content is no longer a value point in itself. MITs OpenCourseWare and numerous other open educational projects reflect this reality in the education market. In music, news, and other media, a...

Social Media Start Kit is a useful resources intended to "build a toolkit and instructional guides about how social media strategies and tools can enable nonprofit organizations to create, compile, and distribute their stories and change the world." Weekly modules...

Thanks to a tweet from Andy Carvin comes this latest example of how social tools are pushing the old traditional ways of thinking, this time in Congress: Given the rules in place, this clash between the old ways of talking to the Congress and the potential new ones may have been inevitable. Noyes says Culberson and [...] SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "“Let our Congress Tweet”", url: "http://weblogg-ed.com/2008/let-our-congress-tweet/" });

Lilia Effimova appears to have completed her PhD research and is actively blogging. She provides a thoughtful and critical voice to online communication. In a recent post she tackles the key challenge of attribution and idea ownership in blogs. The...

Stephen Downes delivered a presentation about The future of online learning ten years on. I've reviewed the slides, but haven't had time to listen to the audio (personal whining; my laptop, ipod touch, and other such devices were stolen from...

Not really surprising, but a bit of a push back to advocates who suggest a rigid age-based divide between generational use of the internet: Internet Users 50+ Are Rapidly Closing the Digital Divide with Booming Online Activity "The perception is...

A quick FYI: I'm in the process of moving this blog/site to a new platform and server. Things might be a bit goofy for the next week or so. Comments are currently not working. RSS feeds and URLs should stay...

Academic departments at some colleges can get as much as $3 to $10 per book in royalties, but some are now questioning the practice.

In fact, according to a January 2008 Seattle Post-Intelligencer article, the number of students taking online courses in Washington State has leaped seventy-five percent since 2004.

However,...

Erno Rubik, a lecturer in the Department of Interior Design at the Academy of Applied Arts and Crafts in Budapest, Hungary, was passionately interested in geometry - the study of 3D forms - in constru...