Educational Leadership

Could online learning help institutions provide a lower-cost education to more students? That's a question that Richard Garrett, Eduventures chief research officer, examined recently in a brief on the Encoura website. What's needed, Garrett concluded, is a "creative [blend] of in-person and online learning" within institutions to "produce the best mix of cost reduction and high quality."

This guide is designed to help your leadership team implement a strategic direction that ensures technologies are integrated into a school-wide drive for effective teaching and learning.

Kevin Carey's critique of the corporate role in inflating the price of online education singled out 2U. In this essay, CEO Chip Paucek answers back.

Has the Internet killed the classroom? Are the days of the traditional classroom numbered? What is the long-term future of our schools, institutes of technology and universities in the Digital Age?

This brief opinion piece explores these questions in the backdrop of a recent New Zealand Government proposal to allow children to attend an accredited online provider, instead of traditional schools, via the Internet. This quite radical proposal would allow any registered school, higher education provider or an approved body corporate to be able to apply to be a "Community of Online Learning" (COOL).