This is not an article about how to find enough scholarships to pay for your education. This is not just a spammy title meant to grab your attention. This is also not the traditional college class.
There is a new idea floating around out there in the world of higher education. The idea is that knowledge should be free for those who are willing to learn.
According to Stanford’s Computer Science course catalog for the fall, students will have the opportunity to take a course in “iPhone Application Programming.” The class, cs193P, is so far academia’s first response to Apple’s release of the iPhone SDK, which has allowed countless programmers to capitalize on the phone’s success. It’s nice to see a leading university offer a course about a recent piece of consumer technology—hopefully other universities will follow suit. A strong base of college programmers will energize the iPhone application market by introducing a variety of innovative and (likely) free applications.
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A list featuring the names of over 9,000 degree mill “graduates” was released today by the
The actual driving portion of driver’s education courses remains offline, for obvious reasons.
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Anyone who has attended an institution of higher learning in the last several decades can attest to the astronomically high cost of textbooks. Students frustrated by the seemingly unjustifiably high price of course materials can take solace in the rising popularity of “open textbooks.” These books contain all the same content as their “closed” counterparts, with one important difference—they are free. While some online schools have been using free or low cost ebooks in the place of traditional textbooks for several years, the expansion of this trend to brick-and-mortar institutions is encouraging. Once again, technology first adopted by online schools is spreading to the mainstream. (
A deleted scene from the 2007 film I Am Legend depicts Robert Neville (Will Smith) attending a
According to a July 10 article in Science Daily, online courses taken by nursing and healthcare staff could prove essential in combating an epidemic outbreak. While the article’s headline is misleading–it’s actually about how an online course helped hospital staff learn to contain the risk of hospital-acquired infection–online tutorials could in fact be key to containing a real-life epidemic. The rapid distribution of information on online learning platforms makes it easy for a central authority to respond to a crisis by sending out an informational bulletin.
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Stephen Hawking, Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University, is one of the world’s foremost intellectuals and known for his use of assistive technologies.
Over the last decade, online learning has made earning a degree possible for millions who had previously been left at the gates of upper education. Included in this group are countless disabled individuals for whom pursuing higher education presented a serious challenge and often an even larger financial burden. Indeed, thanks to divers new technologies, online learning environments are being adapted to meet their needs–everything from customized input devices to text-to-speech programs.
Previous iterations of the G.I. Bill have encouraged millions of veterans to pursue higher education. The Post-9/11 Veterans Educational Assistance Act aims to replicate their success.
On June 30th, the President signed into law the Post-9/11 Veterans Educational Assistance Act of 2008, which attempts to replicate the success of the two previous G.I. Bills in encouraging veteran enrollment in institutions of higher learning. However, much has changed in the landscape of higher education in the 64 years since the original G.I. bill was passed—namely, the proliferation of distance and online learning.
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