Digital Learning News in 'Inside Higher Ed' This Week

The following news developments relevant to "Inside Digital Learning" readers received coverage in our parent publication Inside Higher Ed this week:

• The online learning provider edX announced last week that six universities would join Georgia Institute of Technology in introducing low-cost, fully online master's degree programs using its course platform. In addition to Georgia Tech, the institutions are the University of Texas at Austin; Indiana University; the University of California, San Diego; Arizona State University and two Australian universities -- the University of Queensland and Curtin University. EdX joins Coursera, another platform that initially specialized in massive open online courses, in increasingly moving into the graduate degree space with selective universities.
• Savings from open educational resources reached the $1 billion mark, advocates said.
• Legislation introduced last week would seek to apply more rigorous evaluation to federal experiments that waive financial aid requirements to try new policy ideas. Many of those experiments involve new forms of credentials and modes of learning.
• The Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Monday announced a $1 billion investment in research and teaching on artificial intelligence and machine learning.