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Maximizing your learning through online tools: Strategic Planning

Posted on July 23, 2014 (November 19, 2018) by Editor

Editor’s note: this guest post is the first in a short series by Ankit Khandelwal, a prolific student of online courses. This article covers ways to use freely available materials to develop confidence and competence in business management skills outside of a traditional degree program. Introduction You may have heard of the term strategic planning […]

Wrap-up: Survey of Systems Engineering MOOC

Posted on May 29, 2014 (November 19, 2018) by David Rose

Our recent foray into the MOOC world, a systems engineering course produced in partnership with NASA personnel, was an astronomical success (pardon the pun). Over 9,000 students from 143 countries enrolled and nearly 600 completed the final exam; nine students who completed the Mars Sample Return Mission project took a VIP tour of the Goddard Space Flight Center. […]

“BitTorrent from space”: Outernet wants to broadcast free information via satellite to everyone

Posted on May 9, 2014 (November 19, 2018) by Sean Connor

If you watch our social media streams (of course you do!), you saw mention the other day of a new outfit called Outernet. Their mission is to broadcast open information from space at no cost to the end user; in their words, the program is “the modern version of shortwave radio, or BitTorrent from space.” The concept […]

The dark side of student loans

Posted on April 14, 2014 (November 19, 2018) by Sean Connor

In his keynote address for a digital education conference we held in 2013, our trustee Michael Saylor talked about how graduating college debt-free was a major factor in getting his start in business. You could call me a risk-taking entrepreneur, but the truth of the matter is I got incredibly lucky […] [H]aving no debt […]

Four quotes from Marc Singer’s interview with The Evolllution on prior learning credentials

Posted on April 10, 2014 (November 19, 2018) by Sean Connor

In a recent interview with online higher education news source The Evolllution — the three L’s emphasize “life-long learning” — Marc Singer of Thomas Edison State College outlines the open course option (text | graphic) for TESC’s Associate in Science in Business Administration (ASBA) degree. The fruit of a long relationship and partnership between Thomas Edison […]