In five years, a tiny New Hampshire school went from a no-name liberal arts university with a few thousand students to a thriving, nationally-recognized online university with over 34,000 students and 180 online programs. Based on the changing demographics of post-secondary students, the leaders at Southern New Hampshire University decided to target “non-traditional” students – working adults with many life responsibilities and time demands. The school discovered the solution by […]
Read more →The last two years have seen an explosion of interest in Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs, for short). Universities and companies team up to create these courses, which provide free content to students around the globe. Early on, the accolades piled up, with MOOC proponents championing the courses as the sign of a new age in inclusive education. Before the end of the year, The New York Times dubbed 2012 […]
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