Above are the world rankings of universities from the British Times Higher Education magazine based on “academic reputation.” [Click on the image to make it clearer.] The full list and info on the survey methodology is at:http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/world-university-rankings/2013/reputation-ranking
The Digital Skeptic: Online Education Fails Economics Jonathan Blum, 12/18/12, LA Daily News NEW YORK (TheStreet) — …In this nutty digital age, the red-hot online thing is …old-school, throwback university classes with a Web-age twist: They’re free.”The course is working out better than I dreamed,” Michael J. Cima told me in an email. Cima, the David H. Koch Professor of Engineering at MIT, teaches a free, online version of one of his chemistry courses at the school… Cima is not the only super geek rocking the quad with free online higher ed. …So where’s the investor bummer? That’s sadly far…
Inside Higher Ed pointed me to a story about UC-Berkeley’s online endeavors. A press release related to the story is below. Below that is a link to the Inside Higher Ed article: UC BERKELEY JOINS HARVARD AND MIT NOT-FOR-PROFIT ONLINE LEARNING COLLABORATIVE; EDX BROADENS FREE COURSE OFFERINGS INTO PUBLIC HEALTH, COMPUTER SCIENCE AND SOLID-STATE CHEMISTRY; OPENS REGISTRATION (excerpts) EdX, the online learning initiative founded by Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and launched in May, announced today the addition of the University of California, Berkeley to its platform. UC Berkeley, ranked No. 1 among public universities in…
