The Chronicle of Higher Education

MIT Releases Software for Distance Education

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is giving away course-management software it has developed to help institutions create and run online-learning programs. The free software, called Caddie.net, ...
ABC7 San Francisco

'I am exhausted': Students at Vallejo's MIT Academy say 8 hour distance learning day is too much

VALLEJO, Calif. (KGO) -- MIT Academy students in Vallejo recently cut class in protest to their nearly eight hour distance learning day. Junior Kristanee Sturm-Johnson spoke with ABC7 News at the end ...
CNET

MIT tries free Web education

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has decided to publish online all its course materials--a $107,840 value. The MIT OpenCourseWare project launched two weeks ago with a preliminary pilot that ...
Wired

MIT Cheered From a Distance

Distance educators on Wednesday applauded MIT's plan to post its course materials online for free, and believe it will complement both traditional education and online education. "I think it's a great ...
The Conversation

Distance learning changes lives, but comes with its own challenges

Ashley Gunter receives funding from, The Arts and Humanities Research Council UK, British Academy UK, National Research Foundation, Newton Fund UK. Across Africa, distance education has become one of ...
The Conversation

Distance learning: the five qualities student teachers need to succeed

Senior Lecturer, Director Teaching, Learning and Program Development, Sol Plaatje University International bodies, politicians, policy makers and researchers have always been interested in the way ...