... 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.
Student entrepreneurs from the University of Virginia are crowding into a hideaway space above a bar on the UVA corner to create their own startup businesses. They call the underground incubator "Hack Cville".
The University of Virginia School of Law should not be too worried about rising financial pressures in higher education.
Most Virginians polled approve of a decision by the University of Virginia’s governing board to reinstate the schools’ popular president, Teresa Sullivan, after an ouster attempt and a subsequent uproar on campus, according to a new poll released Wednesday.
Margaret King of Birmingham, Ala., was at a loss about how to help her older daughter prepare to rush at the University of Virginia. In the South, where sororities have long been a momentous rite of passage, the road to sisterhood is long and not so clearly marked.