Do online courses increase access to education?
Online coursework has been heralded as potentially transformative for higher education, but little is known about whether it increases the number of people who earn degrees.
Researchers cut down procrastination by making it less fun
The key to making online students focus on their course work may be making procrastination as unenjoyable as possible, according to a study out of Cornell University. It’s a familiar problem to anyone with a deadline and a computer:…
Next online experiments in higher ed focus on flexibility
Some of the country’s most rigorous research universities have a new obsession: flexibility. As the institutions contemplate a more modular future, experiments with blended learning may provide an early glimpse at their plans.
