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Startup University's Phantom Faculty
Newly launched Cambridge Graduate University has an impressive list of faculty members. Too bad many of them have never heard of it.
Pearson Doubles Down Online
With purchase of EmbanetCompass, company seeks to expand its existing services helping colleges take their academic programs into cyberspace.
Texas MOOCs for Credit?
U. of Texas System wants to use its edX partnership to aid its goals of reducing costs and increasing completion. That will mean awarding credit, under certain conditions, for MOOCs.
Blackboard's New Bag
As part of the company's gradual reinvention as a provider of agnostic support and consulting, Blackboard -- joining a market place crowded with competitors -- offers to help colleges reinvent themselves online.
Opinion
The Internet Agenda
Does the aggressive move into online education create another way universities might become too dependent on corporations? Mark Edmundson asks.
MOOCs and the Rest of 'Online'
In speech to members of online learning group, Sebastian Thrun -- of celebrated massive Stanford online course -- acknowledges extent to which new efforts build on their work.
The Pulse: ApprenNet and Online LawMeets
This month's edition of The Pulse podcast features a conversation with Karl Okamoto and Emily Foote of ApprenNet LLC, a...
Brand New Online Heavies
Nonprofit colleges are moving into for-profits' turf online, study finds, sparking new competition based on price and brand.