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Univeristà La Sapienza in Coursera? 
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MOOC2Degree from Academic Partnerships gives you the opportunity to try online learning for free. Earn college credit toward your degree by taking free, open online courses.
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The End of the University as We Know It - Nathan Harden - The American Interest - The higher ed revolution is coming.
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Nathan Harden is promoting himself as "a leading voice of a new generation of young conservatives" and has for sure some, how to say it, "original" ideas about the future of USA but this article about the future of HE contains some stimulating points of view...
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Udacity is moving too..
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Good infographic about the results of the annual survey rdeveloped by the Babson Survey Research Group and the College Board, considered the leading barometer of online learning in the United States. Based on responses from over 2,800 academic leaders, the complete survey report, "Changing Course: Ten Years of Tracking Online Education in the United States
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As tuition costs continue to rise, it seems counterintuitive that professors at top universities would give away their courses for free.
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Your education doesn't have to stop once you leave school—freedom from the classroom just means you have more control over what you learn and when you learn it.
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Lifehacker U is a blog about anything can help to solve an everyday problem in a clever or non-obvious way (might be called a " life hack") in Universities...the post of today is about MOOCs...
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Online versions of college courses are attracting hundreds of thousands of students, millions of dollars in funding, and accolades from university administrators. Is this a fad, or is higher education about to get the overhaul it needs?
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The public policy blog of the American Enterprise Institute The chart above shows the percent changes since 1978 for the CPI series “Educational Books and Supplies” (which is mostly college textbooks), the CPI series “Medical Services,” the median price for new homes from the Census Bureau, and the CPI series “All Items.” The 812% increase in the price of college textbooks since 1978 makes the run-up in house prices and housing bubble (and subsequent crash) in the 2000s seem rather inconsequential, and the nine-fold increase in textbook prices also dwarfs the increase in the cost of medical services over the last three decades. Compared to the 250% increase in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) over the last 34 years, college textbooks have risen more than three times the amount of the average increase for all goods and services. Via Alastair Creelman
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Can this explain why giants as Pearson are involved in MOOCs?
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December 21, 2012 2:42 AM
UK enter in MOOCs with a strategic national plan
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After doubling its university partner count to 33 and hosting over 200 courses for more than 1.3 million students, Coursera is launching a Career Services program to connect high performing ...
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Susanna Sancassani's insight: “Early Renaissance Architecture in Italy: from Alberti to Bramante”, what better way for the outset of italian universities in Coursera? All the best to La Sapienza!
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In an unusual arrangement with a commercial company, the universities hope that those who pass the free courses will pay tuition to complete a degree program.
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Useful article for understanding the new MOOCs trend launched by MOOCs2Degree: Moocs as an explicit international recruiting strategy!
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University of Wisconsin will grant bachelor's degrees based on a person's knowledge as demonstrated in online tests, not on class time or credits, the first such offering from a public university system.
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Another step towards "unbundled universities"?
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DuKe University Course "Introduction to genetics and Evolution" is now using the signature track in order to give official recognition of the accomplishment
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Take a look at this Coursera Course...Just for remember that, sometimes, go directly to the source has a differente flavor...
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Another MOOCs family: LMS provider Instructure takes the field!
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How Free Online Courses Are Changing the Traditional Liberal Arts Education
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An updated rapid overview about MOOCs
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In just one year, Coursera has established itself as the giant in the rapidly growing field of online higher education.
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Here’s the initial list of courses that will offer the “signature track” option: Computational Investing, Georgia TechMicroeconomics Principles, IllinoisClinical Problem Solving, UCSFNutrition for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, UCSFIntroduction to Genetics and Evolution, Duke
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Stanford professors Daphne Koller and Andrew Ng launched Coursera last year to give anyone and everyone access to courses from top-tier universities -- for free, online.
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As usual sometihing really tricking almost at the end of teh artcile: "It’s still early to say what this can mean for Coursera, especially as Duke, UCSF, Illinois and Georgia Tech are the only schools that have agreed to participate in the certificate program thus far, but the potential seems huge." Solo quattro università dunque...per ora ; )
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Coursera Announces Details for Selling Certificates and Verifying Identities http://t.co/ZDTGV5QQ @wiredcampus #edtech #eLearning
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Another steptowards "unbundled" University...
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Interesting and engaging synopsis about MOOCs 2012 history. Please note this in the last paragraph: "The response to that last question by some is to contend that the future involves the “unbundling” of higher education. That is, the various services offered by the university — content delivery, assessment, credentialing, research, mentorship, affiliation and networking, job placement — will no longer all be monopolized by it. Other institutions and businesses will compete with higher education and will also offer these services."
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An interesting point of view: Moocs, Itunes and OCW under the common hat of "frre education with elite univiversities"!
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A survey of US Presidents higlights the innovation factors with the higher potential in 2013 : MOOCs are mentioned, but a higher potential is attributed to competency-based academic credit ...