This is a good reference for many of us and you are right, it is an easy read.  Also wanted to share info from a SUNY Conference we just hosted about Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL), which focuses on jointly taught online courses from faculty in two different countries – http://coil.suny.edu/6th-coil-conference.  Many of the s…[Read more]

I stumbled on to this very interesting read about teaching across cultures which can apply not only to teaching international students in the US, but is also very critical when looking to expand internationally. It’s from the International Education Association of Australia; however, the US and Australia have extremely similar learning cultures,…[Read more]

MOOCs can provide better access to students who might be shut out of courses that fill up, or to students at remote campuses which don’t offer the full panel of courses that the flagship university campus does.  In this case, MOOCs could allow more students to finish their degree in four years or less.