The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation is closing its grant program for online education, a move some college officials fear will leave the fast-growing field without a major funding source, The Chronicle of ...

Frank Mayadas, the founder of Sloan’s online-education grant initiative and an online education pioneer, said the country’s economic downturn was not the reason the foundation ended its grant program.

Most college students view online courses as less effective than in-person education, and more than 90% believe they should pay less for it, according to a new survey released by the Charles Koch ...

The education gap facing the nation’s work force is evident in the numbers. Most new jobs will require more than a high school education, yet fewer than half of Americans under 30 have a postsecondary ...

The debate over online versus in-person classroom learning in K-12 education rages on, driven by concerns over student engagement, academic performance, and social-emotional development. Advocates of ...

From 1995-2002, Eric Fredericksen was a Principal Investigator for grants received from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation for ALN (Asynchronous Learning Environments). Eric is a member of the Board of ...