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With 4.5M Users, Instructure Takes On The Courseras & Udacities Of The World With Its Own Open Course Network

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via techcrunch.com Rip Empson Instructure launched Canvas in 2011 to give educational institutions an alternative to the ubiquitous (but much criticized) software of educational giants like Blackboard. Rather than forcing schools to spend six months integrating and learning how to use inflexible and bloated learning management software, Canvas offers an open source and cloud-native system […]

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Minnesota State swiftly reverses ban: Free online ed is OK

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<< State Bans Free Education The Washington Posts Nick Anderson Sorts it out.. By Nick Anderson Minnesotans, rest assured: Your state government believes you are entitled to free online higher education. This had been a point of controversy until, well, a few minutes ago. In an earlier post this afternoon, I noted that the free

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Free Online Courses Banned – Minnesota Gives Coursera the Boot, Citing a Decades-Old Law

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Challenges in cross-border e-learning requires institutions enrolling state residents in postsecondary courses to secure state approval. How is presence defined? State approvals create challenges for MOOC’s how will they overcome? How is learning validated and credentialed – certificates, badges – real academic credentials?

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Arne Duncan Calls For Textbooks To Become Obsolete In Favor Of Digital

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ASHINGTON — Worried your kids spend too much time with their faces buried in a computer screen? Their schoolwork may soon depend on it. Education Secretary Arne Duncan called Tuesday for the nation to move as fast as possible away from printed textbooks and toward digital ones. “Over the next few years, textbooks should be

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