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MOOCs for (a Year's) Credit
Arizona State U, in partnership with edX, will award a freshman year's worth of academic credit through massive open online courses.
A Piece of the Online Pie
Academic Partnerships will push for synchronous content in an upcoming platform update, offering instructors who participate a share of the revenue.
The Increasingly Digital Community College
Distance learning programs at community colleges continue to grow even as two-year institutions' enrollment falls.
Online Penalty
Large study of California community college students finds that they are more likely to succeed in in-person courses.
Online Expansion Held Back
Yale U.'s hybrid physician assistant program hits an accreditation snag -- a win for critics who have wanted the program to be evaluated as a stand-alone offering.
A Higher Profile
LinkedIn buys lynda.com for $1.5 billion, adding online courses to the job networking site's growing portfolio of higher education-related tools.
Surveying the MOOC Landscape
An updated study of massive open online courses from Harvard U. and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology finds diverse learner populations and interests -- and the need for more research.
In Due Time
Apart from cases such as Oral Roberts U.'s smartwatch pilot, experiments with the "internet of things" are still years away at most colleges and universities -- but questions about privacy and cheating remain.