By Siva Vaidhyanathan, a professor and chairman of the department of media studies
... This Coursera platform offers everyone a chance to see some of the best work we do here at UVa. And it offers experimental systems of feedback and assessment for viewers who are not part of the formal UVa program. Eventually Lou [Bloomfield] should be able to measure which lectures work well and which do not. He should be able to see what parts of the world seek out his lectures and which do not. ...
In a May 3 memo, University of Virginia President Teresa Sullivan ... described a plan to eventually convert many general-education courses at U-Va. to “hybrids,” offered partly online. ... Nancy N. Rooker, a U-Va. alumna and parent, wrote a letter to Sullivan and members of the Board of Visitors responding to that plan.
... My apprehension grew into alarm when I read in today’s Washington Post about the plans to make many introductory courses hybrid. Have any of these people ever tried to take an online course? I think we would all agree, if choosing between small or large classes, that smal...
University of Virginia President Teresa Sullivan was the clear winner, the rector who tried to fire her was the loser, and Gov. Bob McDonnell was unscathed by the leadership crisis that roiled the state's flagship university, a public opinion poll released Wednesday found.
Doctors at the University of Virginia are trying out a new form of heart surgery to target people living with leaking heart valves, and they're learning how to do it with the click of a mouse. ... The mitraclip is already widely used in other countries, mostly for older patients who aren't good candidates for open heart surgery. It's still going through clinical trials here in the United States, and UVA is leading that effort.
... When you think about classroom flipping, Coursera videos start to look less like a dubious replacement for the college experience. Instead, they’re more like a welcome replacement for another product: textbooks. Ng says that’s not a bad analogy. “I’ve actually had several professors tell me they were previously thinking of writing a new textbook, and they decided instead to teach an online course on Coursera,” he says.
... The third and least ambitious option is voluntary summer reading programs for students of low socioeconomic status. An experiment conducted by James Kim of Harvard University and Thomas White of the University of Virginia showed students developed better reading skills when they were provided with books during the summer and encouragement from teachers before the break began.
... the deals Coursera announced Tuesday may well prove to be an inflection point for online education, a sector that has traditionally been dominated by for-profit colleges known mostly for their noxious recruitment practices and poor results. That's because the new partnerships represent an embrace of web-based learning from across the top tier of U.S. universities. And where the elite colleges go, so goes the rest of academia. Coursera has previously teamed with Stanford, Princeton, University of Pennsylvania, and University of Michigan to offer 43 courses, which according to the New York ...
The trucks are loaded and volunteers are on their way from the University of Virginia Medical Center to Wise County, Virginia for a three-day Remote Area Medical (RAM) Clinic. The clinic offers medical care to those in need.
Twelve top universities Tuesday joined a venture that offers free Internet courses world-wide, in a bet by some of the most prestigious institutions globally on online education.
A few months ago, free online courses from prestigious universities were a rarity. Now, they are the cause for announcements every few weeks, as a field suddenly studded with big-name colleges and competing software platforms evolves with astonishing speed.
Louis Bloomfield
physics professor
The physics of man's heroic catch of falling girl
MSNBC / July 17
and
The Physics of NYC Man's Heroic Catch of Falling Child
Live Science / July 18
Richard J. Bonnie
law professor
The Insanity Defense: A Constitutional Right?
Wall Street Journal / July 17
Bruce Hayden
environmental sciences professor
Got a Question About the Weather?
WMRA’s Virginia Insight (to air tomorrow at 3 p.m.)
Dr. Alan Rogol
emeritus professor of pediatrics
Athletes Look For Doping Edge, Despite Tests And Risks
NPR (blog) / July 17
Richard Schragger
law professor
Debt, Debt And M...
The University of Virginia Health System was one of fewer than 150 hospitals ranked in U.S. News & World Report's Best Hospitals guide.
University of Virginia President Teresa Sullivan was the clear winner in the court of public opinion, and the rector who tried to fire her the loser, according to a new poll released today.
The firing and subsequent rehiring two weeks later of University of Virginia president Teresa Sullivan was a public relations debacle for the head of the school’s governing board who orchestrated the failed ouster, according to a new statewide poll released Wednesday.
Helen Dragas, leader of the University of Virginia’s governing board, hinted in a statement today that she and other university leaders were surprised — pleasantly — to learn that the institution is joining a Stanford University initiative to offer free online courses to the masses.
The University of Virginia will open four of its courses to the masses next year through a digital partnership that will take Thomas Jefferson's academical village to the farthest reaches of the Internet.
On Tuesday, the University of Virginia announced plans for tackling a new frontier - online learning. Early Tuesday morning, UVA announced plans that they are now offering online classes. It's all free and open to anyone with a computer and internet connection.
Anyone can soon start taking classes through the University of Virginia and it is all for free as UVa joins the ranks of 15 other universities across the country in offering online courses.