January 23, 2013 'Bill of Rights' Seeks to Protect Students' Interests as Online Learning Rapidly Expands /By Steve Kolowich/ // A dozen educators met last month in Palo Alto, Calif., to discuss the future of higher education. They had been convened at the epicenter of technological innovation in higher education by Sebastian Thrun, a pioneer of massive open online courses, and yet the task at hand had nothing to do with software or strategy. It had to do with citizenship. The Philadelphia Convention, it was not. But the 12 educators, many of them well known in online-education circles, did manage to draft a document that they hope will serve as a philosophical framework for protecting the interests of students as online education, propelled and complicated by the rise of MOOCs, <http://chronicle.com/article/What-You-Need-to-Know-About/133475/> hurtles into a new phase. [...] Continua qui: http://chronicle.com/article/Bill-of-Rights-Seeks-to/136783/