International ‘MOOCs, High Technology and Higher Learning’ | Based on the early projections and proclamations of the MOOC advocates mostly tied to venture capital and likely driven by profit, the MOOC movement has been and is a flop… When a select group of professors described their ambition to “democratize higherContinue Reading
International Uganda: Are African Private Universities As Pitiable As Portrayed Abroad? | Last week, a staff at the University of Southampton sent me an article titled ‘Africa’s teaching shops: the rise of private universities’ by Chris Havergal published in the Times Higher Education magazine in the UK. Let’s have theContinue Reading
International The Structure of Instructure | As the LMS provider prepares to go public, financial disclosures show the company has spent on sales and marketing at a much higher rate than competitors — but has rapid growth to show for it. No crisis, no need for higher fees, says UNSWContinue Reading
International College fees ‘inevitable solution to third-level funding crisis’ | College fees seem an inevitable solution to the country’s [Ireland’s] third-level funding crisis, an international education expert has said. The 10 Ed-Tech Companies That Are Raising the Most Money | In the first half of 2015, venture-capital funding in edContinue Reading
International The Slow Death of the University | Stanford and MIT, after all, provided the very models of the entrepreneurial university. What has emerged in Britain, however, is what one might call Americanization without the affluence — the affluence, at least, of the American private educational sector. China Turns toContinue Reading
