Higher Education Returns to Reality but MOOCs do Offer Innovation

The Chronicle of Higher Education http://chronicle.com/article/Innovation-in-2014-Welcome-to/143971/ has an interesting op-ed on MOOCs in 2014 and their opportunity for innovation. Universities and colleges will experiment in leveraging MOOCs to provide a residential face-to-face experience to more students than before, for instance, by focusing on delivering what they are good at and what correlates to learning and higher student experience.

Massive Online Courses Shaking Up Higher Education

An interesting article from China about how MOOCs are shaking up higher education and getting some resistance as well from the establishment. http://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/family-education/article/1402415/massive-open-online-courses-are-shaking-higher-education

Scottish Universities Deliver Most Value for the Pound

Scottish Universities deliver the most value for the GBP according to this article in the Mirror. Of course, this is for face-to-face residential students.

 

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/northsouth-divide-students-can-halve-2995539

Top Online Marketing Tips for 2014 – Forbes

Forbes recently published an article on the top 7 trends for 2014 in digital marketing. A short but sweet article and many of these apply to the marketing of eLearning as well.  http://www.forbes.com/sites/jaysondemers/2013/09/17/the-top-7-online-marketing-trends-that-will-dominate-2014/