“Holding Higher Education Accountable” at the American Enterprise Institute

Post by Tanner Huggins and Nathan Thompson (bios), who attended the panel. On Wednesday the American Enterprise Institute brought together higher education experts and policymakers in a panel aimed at “holding higher education accountable.” Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) discussed their proposed legislation, the Student Right to Know Before You Go […]

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Saylor.org Student Conversation: Josh Lipovetsky

“This is AWESOME! This is, like, as close as it gets to ‘in person’!” These were among the first words that I heard from Josh Lipovetsky, a 20 year-old Saylor.org student, studying from his home right outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  I first saw Josh when he posted a video about Saylor.org on his website Optimistic […]

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Monday Morning Digest: Questioning Free Education Providers

Here are some of last week’s headlines: Berkeley Joins ‘EdX’ Effort to Offer Free Open Courses The University of California at Berkeley is the third institution to join EdX, which also includes MIT and Harvard. What’s interesting about this is that UC Berkeley will not be contributing any money to EdX – instead, they will […]

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Monday Morning Digest: Holy MOOCs!

Here are some of the top headlines from last week: Universities Reshaping Education on the Web Coursera announces that about a dozen major research universities will be joining their cause of offering open online courses (MOOCs). The folks behind Coursera are very interested with what can be done with certification instead of offering degrees. This […]

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