Posts Tagged ‘SNHU’
University Unbound! Higher Education in the Age of “Free”
by John O. Harney
October 23, 2012
Innovators and entrepreneurs are using technologies to make freely available the things for which universities charge significant money. MOOCs ... free online courses ... lecture podcasts ... low-cost off-the-shelf general education courses ... online tutorials ... digital collections of open learning resources ... open badges ... all are disrupting higher education's hold on knowledge, instruction ...
Read MoreTags: assessment, Coursera, edX, Federal Researve Bank of Boston, flipped classroom, Harvard, John O. Harney, MIT, SNHU | No Comments
Credit for What You Know, Not How Long You Sit
by Paul LeBlanc
September 10, 2013
Zach Sherman earned an associate degree from us in just under 100 days. He did in about three months what many students struggle to do in two years in full-time degree programs. Zach works the graveyard shift at a ConAgra food plant in Troy, Ohio, and he was in many ways an exceptional case: unencumbered ...
Read MoreTags: College for America, competency-based education, Paul LeBlanc, SNHU | 1 Comment