Tech is where the money is. From the biggest titans in Silicon Valley to the little Square register at a roadside farm stand, business can’t happen without technology. Every transaction and exchange depends on the work of IT professionals wielding a set of specialized and lucrative skills, and the market can’t seem to fill some […]
Why Should (Or Shouldn't) I Get an Executive MBA?
Skip to our ranking of the best online Executive MBA Programs>> An Executive MBA (or EMBA) can be a magnificent boon to your career, education and potential opportunities. EMBA programs help working professionals (often with 10 years work experience, and 5 years of managerial experience) get a graduate business education while maintaining their current workload […]
Why Should (Or Shouldn’t) I Get an Executive MBA?
Skip to our ranking of the best online Executive MBA Programs>> An Executive MBA (or EMBA) can be a magnificent boon to your career, education and potential opportunities. EMBA programs help working professionals (often with 10 years work experience, and 5 years of managerial experience) get a graduate business education while maintaining their current workload […]
State of the MOOC 2017: A Year of Privatized and Open Education Growth
Last year, we published the State of the MOOC 2016: A Year of Massive Landscape Change for Massive Open Online Courses. Much of that article took up the question of what is going to happen to MOOCs and traditional courses as more distant learning opportunities emerge, making online and higher education more affordable and accessible […]
Behind the Scenes: An Interview with Developers of The Most Popular MOOC of All Time
Where user experience meets learning experience. What does it take to make a great online learning experience? Is it the instructor? The course content? The user platform? Most online learners would say you can recognize a great online course by some combination of all three of those factors: a dynamic instructor who can teach content […]
The 50 Best Jobs for Online Learners
According to estimates by the National Center for Education Statistics, greater than 1 in every 4 students enrolled at a college or university is now enrolled in distance education courses, and that number is growing. Working on school work from home has it’s own unique challenges and benefits. A certain type of learner truly does […]
DIY Syllabi: Fantasy Literature
We start with the Greeks, as usual. This may be quixotic: the Greeks certainly had no notion of “fantasy.” The stories, or mýthoi, they told were part-religious, part-historical. There was no implication that they were false. But unlike the Hebrews, who were famously the People of the Book, the Greeks liked to modify their stories, […]
DIY Syllabi: 20th and 21st Century Literature
“On or around December 1910, human character changed,” wrote Virginia Woolf. “I am not saying that one went out, as one might into a garden, and there saw that a rose had flowered or a hen had laid an egg. The change was not sudden and definite like that, but a change there was, nevertheless.” […]
Most Innovative Online Universities
By definition, online education has always been innovative. But as the years go by, and as the number of traditional schools with opportunities for online education continue to increase while fully online institutions continue to grow more diverse, so too do the number of ways in which colleges and universities can innovate. Since the advent […]
DIY Syllabi: Modern Political Thought
If we still acknowledge the old rule, there are only two topics that can’t be discussed at a dinner table: politics and religion. Why? Even if the rule isn’t followed – even if you’ve never heard of the rule, much less followed it – its nervous existence is revealing. Arguably the two most universal and […]