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IHEtech

  1. Asked about the long-term impact of #MOOCs on #highered professors, faculty groups circle the wagons: bit.ly/JycZ7g #edtech
  2. Study: Intro stats courses taught mainly by robots = same learning outcomes as human-heavy versions: bit.ly/MidmzH #riseofthemachines
  3. Should online office hours count as office hours? One university debates: bit.ly/KkTbz5 #highered #edtech
  4. .@audreywatters: "When the C in MOOC feels like 'community,' I’m far happier than when the C feels like 'course.'" bit.ly/INMAkF
  5. Access is one thing, but can the new, "elite" #MOOCs offer meaningful, measurable learning experiences? bit.ly/K23fzB #highered
  6. UMinn launches online catalog to help profs vet #OpenSource textbooks for quality: bit.ly/JZ9kZ5 #textbooks #highered
  7. Candance Thille, director of @cmuoli, talks #MOOCs, the science of learning, & the rise of the machines in #highered: bit.ly/JYRpSs
  8. New fully online LL.M. degree at WashULaw raises questions about prospects/limitations of online legal education: bit.ly/INxkTu
  9. UPDATE: Harvard joins MIT in "edX," a $60m #MOOC project. Story updated with details from press conference: bit.ly/Iqu4hP #highered
  10. MIT and Harvard join forces on massively open online courses (#MOOC), invest $60m in #edX: bit.ly/JSR3Cq #highered #edtech
  11. MLA issues guidelines for colleges to assess and reward the work of #DigitalHumanists (re: promotion & #tenure): bit.ly/JEH9kZ
  12. Why the online, competency-based model of Western Governors U. might not take over anytime soon: bit.ly/JEFPyo #WGU #highered
  13. What will the #MachineLearning revolution mean to traditional #highered, and what will stand in its way? bit.ly/IDHsPu #edtech
  14. Internet2 expands effort to lower #CloudComputing costs by negotiating master agreements covering many universities: bit.ly/JpSYui
  15. How useful could #Pinterest prove to be for #highered marketing and development? bit.ly/I1srDy
  16. Faculty advisers to Harvard #library take a public (if nonspecific) stand against commercial journal pricing: bit.ly/I6RHvG #journals
  17. Before MOOCs were about scale and efficiency, they were about imagination and anarchy: bit.ly/IOrBdo #highered #MOOC #edtech
  18. Pearson's #eLearning division sprouts a new arm: self-paced online courses that invite colleges to outsource #GenEd: bit.ly/HPNI1r
  19. Princeton, Penn, Mich, Stanford and Berkeley will open 39 free, interactive online courses w/in a year: bit.ly/IL5YZ4 #highered #MOOC