Daphne Koller: What we're learning from online education (video)
Daphne Koller is bringing courses from top colleges online, free for anyone who wants to take them. Why you should listen to her: A 3rd generation Ph.D who is passionate about education, Stanford professor Daphne Koller is excited to be making the college experience available to anyone through her startup, Coursera. With classes from 16 top colleges, Coursera is an innovative model for online learning. While top schools have been putting lectures online for years, Coursera's platform supports the other vital aspect of the classroom: tests and assignments that reinforce learning. At the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, computer scientist Daphne Koller studies how to model large, complicated decisions with lots of uncertainty. (Her research group is called DAGS, which stands for Daphne's Approximate Group of Students.) In 2004, she won a MacArthur Fellowship for her work, which involves, among other things, using Bayesian networks and other techniques to explore biomedical and genetic data sets. "Classes involve recorded lectures and quizzes in which the video pauses to let students answer questions."--Ari Levy in Bloomberg BusinessWeek
Quotes by Daphne Koller:
“In many of our [online] courses, the median response time for a question on the question and answer forum was 22 minutes — which is not a level of service I have ever offered to my Stanford students.”
"We should spend less time at universities filling our students' minds with content by lecturing at them, and more time igniting their creativity … by actually talking with them.”
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But how do we stack up against the world when it comes to education? According to this infograph by Certification Map, the U.S. -- which leads in gold medal count -- is ranked seventh in high school graduation rates, trailing countries like Germany ...
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Teacher layoffs look less likely in DeKalb
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Teachers are still anxious though because there are still several dozen teachers too many. If layoffs do happen after the start of school Monday, the delayed decision will put teachers on the street after other districts have completed their summer hiring.
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I for incomplete
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Indeed, according to the latest report from the State Education Department, only 214 of the districts have submitted plans that have been OK'd by their unions; nearly 500 (and, notably, New York City, as well) are still haggling over fine print ...
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13, 2012 -- /PRNewswire/ -- Voyager Learning, the nation's most comprehensive provider of preK–12 print and online intervention learning solutions and education services, today announced the re-launch of its VmathLive program, a web-based online math ...
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Daphne Koller is bringing courses from top colleges online, free for anyone who wants to take them. Why you should listen to her: A 3rd generation Ph.D who is passionate about education, Stanford professor Daphne Koller is excited to be making the college experience available to anyone through her startup, Coursera. With classes from 16 top colleges, Coursera is an innovative model for online learning. While top schools have been putting lectures online for years, Coursera's platform supports the other vital aspect of the classroom: tests and assignments that reinforce learning. At the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, computer scientist Daphne Koller studies how to model large, complicated decisions with lots of uncertainty. (Her research group is called DAGS, which stands for Daphne's Approximate Group of Students.) In 2004, she won a MacArthur Fellowship for her work, which involves, among other things, using Bayesian networks and other techniques to explore biomedical and genetic data sets. "Classes involve recorded lectures and quizzes in which the video pauses to let students answer questions."--Ari Levy in Bloomberg BusinessWeek
Quotes by Daphne Koller:
“In many of our [online] courses, the median response time for a question on the question and answer forum was 22 minutes — which is not a level of service I have ever offered to my Stanford students.”
"We should spend less time at universities filling our students' minds with content by lecturing at them, and more time igniting their creativity … by actually talking with them.”
RIP JOE KUBERT: From 'Sgt. Rock' to the Kubert School, creator-teacher leaves ...
Washington Post (blog)
One of the most renowned teachers in comics was at the table before scores of us, giving a talk and drawing with a marksman's precision. Many students ... Not only was he a prolific artist, he was also a fantastic teacher who with his wife, Muriel ...
Hooked on teaching
New York Post
The former Bronx elementary-school art teacher, who wrote blogs advocating for sex workers when she was not teaching young kids, says she's “very happy” in her new career teaching adults memoir writing at Gotham Writing Workshops. She has no plan to ...
New York Post
Leave No Teacher Behind
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There are Facebook sections devoted to ex-student fans of teachers, people whose lives have been changed by a single teacher, people who realize that teachers see in them something that their parents don't, that they don't see in themselves, but the ...
Education Olympics: How Does the U.S. Rank?
PBS NewsHour (blog)
But how do we stack up against the world when it comes to education? According to this infograph by Certification Map, the U.S. -- which leads in gold medal count -- is ranked seventh in high school graduation rates, trailing countries like Germany ...
'EC needs new education culture'
iAfrica.com
"The ANC believes that at the core of the education problems in the province is the absence of an institutional culture that is harmonious to the values and the type of education system we need to build," it said in a statement. "The infrastructure ...
Plans to overhaul primary maths are 'seriously flawed'
BBC News
Primary classroom The government is planning to overhaul maths teaching in primary schools by 2014 ... In a letter to the Education Secretary, Michael Gove, National Numeracy says the draft curriculum is "overloaded" and relies too much on rotelearning.
BBC News
Teacher Travis Ellington: An exceptional teacher in Toombs for exceptional ...
Atlanta Journal Constitution (blog)
With almost all discussion and policy about teacher evaluation centered on students' test scores, I'm writing a series of profiles of great Georgia teachers whose contributions are only partially measured (if at all) by their students' performances on ...
Atlanta Journal Constitution (blog)
Westerville teachers to vote on new contract
Columbus Dispatch
Other sticking points detailed in the survey included a requirement in the district proposal that elementary school teachers would have to monitor recess, and that teachers who aren't specialized in art, music and physical education would be able to ...
Braun: This teachers union wants to lead change in NJ
The Star-Ledger - NJ.com (blog)
The AFT is smaller than the state association's parent National Education Association and has only a few locals in New Jersey. It does represent teachers in the nation's largest cities — including New York and Los Angeles. And, since its founding as a ...
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AXcess News
In the past decade of national anxiety over the quality of American public education, no area ineducation reform has gotten more attention than teacher quality, and few reforms have encountered as much pushback as the efforts to change how to take the ...
Teacher layoffs look less likely in DeKalb
Atlanta Journal Constitution
Teachers are still anxious though because there are still several dozen teachers too many. If layoffs do happen after the start of school Monday, the delayed decision will put teachers on the street after other districts have completed their summer hiring.
How Obama Will Cash In on Paul Ryan: Medicare, Taxes, Education & More
Daily Beast
Ryan is an articulate, informed, self-proclaimed purveyor of “bold” ideas that also happen to be very bad, both substantively and politically. By the time the Obama campaign finishes with him, his specter, like hers, will become a red flag—in his case...
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I for incomplete
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Dodoma — A HEATED debate over the remuneration of teachers and unpaid arrears will most likely dominate parliamentary proceedings as Education and Vocational Training Minister Shukuru Kawambwa tables his annual budget proposals. Lawmakers ...
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Beloved teacher dies at Basehor intersection known for crashes
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“Ronda was one of the most gifted and talented teachers I have ever had the experience of working with in 30 years of public and private education.” Andrews' death was particularly disturbing because it occurred at the same intersection where the ...
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Ontario moves to protect young teachers' jobs
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Sacramento Bee
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On the other hand, however, I am certain he would feel that the initiative's stated mission was lacking by understating the obvious: the need to ensure that a quality teacher is in every classroom, especially the classrooms of kids with the greatest ...
Basic Education Minister Defends School Closure - As 84 Shutdown in Region 1
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The Basic and Secondary Education minister has defended her Ministry's current decision toclose certain schools within Region I Educational Directorate that failed to meet the laid down requirements, emphasising that "there will be no compromise." ...
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