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Doing It Yourself: The ‘Internal OPM’ Model
As concerns about outsourcing ring out across online education, several institutions have carved out niches by developing in-house capacity that resembles OPM functions.
Help Us Help You: What Should We Cover?
Readers, it's your turn: What issues are keeping you up at night? What strategies to adopt? How to encourage and support the faculty? Which products or services to use?
Abrupt Departure at Online Learning Consortium
Kathleen Ives, the organization's director since 2013, resigns suddenly and with no explanation. A deputy replaces her.
California Mulls Crackdown on Online Partnerships
Bills targeting for-profit institutions in California would prohibit tuition-sharing deals -- a sign of growing political scrutiny of the role of online program management companies.
Online Education, Beyond ‘Deans Gone Wild’
Leaders of companies colleges hire to take academic programs online discuss their role, the scrutiny they're facing and why we should call them something other than OPMs.
Carnegie Mellon Rolls Out Open Learning Science Tools
Carnegie Mellon University has begun publicly releasing a massive suite of learning science tools it's developed for proprietary use over...
Horizon Report Highlights Upcoming Challenges
The latest edition of the Educause Horizon Report, an analysis of future trends in higher education, is available here. Key...
Digital Learning in ‘Inside Higher Ed’ This Week
Among the topics: Northeastern teams up with a for-profit on certificates; Goliath's Revenge and the incumbents' advantage; heralding Knewton's demise.