Virtual Princeton: A guide to free online Ivy League classes
The Week Magazine
Stanford, Duke, Princeton, and Johns Hopkins are among the 16 universities that have partnered with a newly launched company called Coursera to offer more than 100 free online courses this academic year; MIT, Harvard, and the University of California, ...
The Week Magazine
Stanford, Duke, Princeton, and Johns Hopkins are among the 16 universities that have partnered with a newly launched company called Coursera to offer more than 100 free online courses this academic year; MIT, Harvard, and the University of California, ...
Stanford appoints vice provost for online learning | Stanford Daily
Computer science professor John Mitchell will be the first vice provost for online learning, a new office created by president John Hennessy to position Stanford ...
www.stanforddaily.com/.../stanford-appoints-vice-provost-for-...
How Stanford wants to Ride the Wave of Online Learning | Disrupt ...
Yesterday Stanford announced the appointment of Computer scientist John Mitchell as new vice provost for Online Learning. According to the article this is only ...
bigthink.com/.../how-stanford-wants-to-ride-the-wave-of-onli...
Computer science professor John Mitchell will be the first vice provost for online learning, a new office created by president John Hennessy to position Stanford ...
www.stanforddaily.com/.../stanford-appoints-vice-provost-for-...
How Stanford wants to Ride the Wave of Online Learning | Disrupt ...
Yesterday Stanford announced the appointment of Computer scientist John Mitchell as new vice provost for Online Learning. According to the article this is only ...
bigthink.com/.../how-stanford-wants-to-ride-the-wave-of-onli...
Manila Bulletin
But online learning has also caught the eye of some of the world's most prestigious universities, with Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology recently teaming up to offer free courses over the Internet. "With the improvement in ...
Stanford University sets up online learning office
Virtual College
Stanford University sets up online learning office. A leading US university is continuing to invest in e-learning and has restructured its operations to accommodate the innovation. Stanford University in California has created the Office of the Vice ...
Stanford Assigns Vice Provost of Online Learning
Technapex
This week, Stanford University announced the appointment of John Mitchell to serve as Vice Provost for Online Learning. This signifies the university is getting serious about the Stanford Online initiative to reach more students around the world and to...
Technapex
Take the chemistry department's cue
UT The Daily Texan
Online course material doesn't suit all courses as well as it fits math and science, but paying for textbooks causes pain. And, in this case, the substituted online materials have useful features, like showing a professor what was least understood ...
MILAN: Milan Middle School adds new staff members
Heritage Newspapers
Formerly the computer instructor at Symons, Beaudrie will use technology in her new classroom, including having students use Netbooks to access online school learning sites. Beaudrie said conventional teaching methods will also be used. The combination ...
4 civic e-learning schools on cards
Times of India
E-learning is essentially a computer- and network-enabled transfer of skills and knowledge.E-learning applications and processes include web-based learning, computer-based learning, virtual classroom opportunities and digital collaboration. Content is ...
Online learning network is game-changer for schools « Online ...
By Ray Schroeder
Online learning network is game-changer for schools. by Wade Linger, West Virginia Board of Education. West Virginia faces enormous challenges to our efforts to provide efficient and high-quality education across a rural landscape with ...
Online Learning Update
Lawmakers abandon Calif. teacher evaluation bill
San Francisco Chronicle
Education advocates slammed the bill, saying the new rules would have weakened initiatives in Los Angeles and elsewhere to improve the quality of public school instructors. The Times said the bill, supported by the powerful California Teachers Assn ...
Teacher Accused of Bullying Student Put on Leave
ABC News
A Gig Harbor, Wash., middle school teacher who is accused of bullying a student has been placed on administrative leave after the alleged victim's parents called for the teacher to be fired. John Rosi, who has been an educator for 18 years, managed to ...
ABC News
The Education Report: Retired Oakland teacher makes the case for California ...
San Jose Mercury News
IBAbuzz.com/education. Follow her at Twitter.com/KatyMurphy. Aug. 27: In this guest post, Steven Weinberg, a retired Oakland teacher and Education Report contributor, makes a case for the Prop. 30 statewide tax initiative on the November ballot: Does ...
Court Says Teachers Strike Illegal
AllAfrica.com
Justice Ongaya directed the TSC to serve the Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT) and the Kenya Union of Post Primary Education (Kuppet) ahead of the hearing of the case. The TSC which is the teachers' employer said the strike planned to start on ...
Teachers offer some back-to-school lessons — for parents
The Seattle Times
This applies to all children, but it's especially important with kids who have learning disabilities or other special needs, said Andrea Demasi, a special-education teacher in Virginia. Stay involved. Just because your child is getting older doesn't ...
CPS, CTU: Open up!
Chicago Tribune (blog)
I realize that the two sides in the labor dispute between Chicago teachers and the Chicago Board of Education don't want to "negotiate in the media," but time's up. They need to fling open the doors on their ... Maybe we want to tell them to back off ...
EDUCATION: Budget woes could slow schools' progress
Press-Enterprise (blog)
Class sizes have swelled to 32 students per teacher. ... And because of the increase in class sizes and the loss of many veteran teachers to an early retirement incentive offered last year, there are many teachers teaching new grade levels, Romero said.
Press-Enterprise (blog)
City Colleges, teachers union reach tentative deal
Chicago Tribune
City Colleges of Chicago and its full-time faculty union agreed to the terms of a new five-year contract Saturday, one that officials said rewards teachers for their efforts as well as prioritizes student success. The members of the Cook County College ...
McGraw-Hill Education and New Oriental Unveil College and Career Readiness ...
Sacramento Bee
About McGraw-Hill Education McGraw-Hill Education is a content, software and services-basededucation company that draws on its more than 100 years of educational expertise to offer solutions which improve learning outcomes around the world.
ABC News
A Gig Harbor, Wash., middle school teacher who is accused of bullying a student has been placed on administrative leave after the alleged victim's parents called for the teacher to be fired. John Rosi, who has been an educator for 18 years, managed to ...
ABC News
The Education Report: Retired Oakland teacher makes the case for California ...
San Jose Mercury News
IBAbuzz.com/education. Follow her at Twitter.com/KatyMurphy. Aug. 27: In this guest post, Steven Weinberg, a retired Oakland teacher and Education Report contributor, makes a case for the Prop. 30 statewide tax initiative on the November ballot: Does ...
Court Says Teachers Strike Illegal
AllAfrica.com
Justice Ongaya directed the TSC to serve the Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT) and the Kenya Union of Post Primary Education (Kuppet) ahead of the hearing of the case. The TSC which is the teachers' employer said the strike planned to start on ...
Teachers offer some back-to-school lessons — for parents
The Seattle Times
This applies to all children, but it's especially important with kids who have learning disabilities or other special needs, said Andrea Demasi, a special-education teacher in Virginia. Stay involved. Just because your child is getting older doesn't ...
CPS, CTU: Open up!
Chicago Tribune (blog)
I realize that the two sides in the labor dispute between Chicago teachers and the Chicago Board of Education don't want to "negotiate in the media," but time's up. They need to fling open the doors on their ... Maybe we want to tell them to back off ...
EDUCATION: Budget woes could slow schools' progress
Press-Enterprise (blog)
Class sizes have swelled to 32 students per teacher. ... And because of the increase in class sizes and the loss of many veteran teachers to an early retirement incentive offered last year, there are many teachers teaching new grade levels, Romero said.
Press-Enterprise (blog)
City Colleges, teachers union reach tentative deal
Chicago Tribune
City Colleges of Chicago and its full-time faculty union agreed to the terms of a new five-year contract Saturday, one that officials said rewards teachers for their efforts as well as prioritizes student success. The members of the Cook County College ...
McGraw-Hill Education and New Oriental Unveil College and Career Readiness ...
Sacramento Bee
About McGraw-Hill Education McGraw-Hill Education is a content, software and services-basededucation company that draws on its more than 100 years of educational expertise to offer solutions which improve learning outcomes around the world.
Thousands in Hong Kong protest 'brainwash' education reform - RT
By RT
It was the second mass demonstration against the proposed education reform in two months, after some 90,000 people took to the streets in July. On Thursday, three students at a Hong Kong high school initiated a three-day hunger strike ...
News RSS : Today
By RT
It was the second mass demonstration against the proposed education reform in two months, after some 90,000 people took to the streets in July. On Thursday, three students at a Hong Kong high school initiated a three-day hunger strike ...
News RSS : Today
Teacher Contract Talks Continue Amid Worries Over Strike « CBS ...
By Mike Ramsey
“When the Chicago Board of the Education and the Chicago Teachers Union fight, it is the children who get trampled,” executive director Philip Jackson said. Seniors like Maryannette Gardner hope to start her final year at Simeon next week.
CBS Chicago
Unbelievable: WA middle school teacher who led class bullying ...
By The Right Scoop
If a teacher did this to any of my children, I would give him such a beat-down, then sue the school district for condoning his actions by not revoking his teaching liscence. nibblesyble ... Teachersdo not behave or allow others to behave this way. This video .... Learning to deal with “tyrannical rule of society” comes from speaking up, demanding we be treated with respect, calling out those that would do harm. If the one .... I personally don't think that public education should continue.
The Right Scoop
School of Education - Seattle Pacific University
In the School of Education, you'll master your role as an educator, ... instruction, the use of technology to support learning, and the ability to meet the diverse needs of students. ...certification programs prepare outstanding teachers, counselors, principals, ... You'll benefit from a premier teacher education program , including ...
www.spu.edu/academics/school-of-education
Teachers play truant in India's schools - Yahoo! News
Today's dysfunctional education system is storing up problems for the future, say experts. ... His studies on teacher absenteeism, done in conjunction with other ... dimly lit classrooms,learning from a text book that leaves many of them baffled.
news.yahoo.com/teachers-play-truant-indias-schools-1446427...
Teaching the Paralympics: news and resources round up | Teacher ...
Our picks of the best news, multimedia and teaching resources. ... Useful education pack with plenty of ideas on how to include the Paralympics in your lessons or assemblies. Dr Ludwig Guttman ... Join our growing community of teachers. Register for ... Learning about endangered species: news and resources round up ...
www.guardian.co.uk/teacher.../paralymics-teaching-resources
Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Nationally, an estimated 250,000 students were enrolled in full-time online K-12 schools in 2010-11, up from 40,000 to 50,000 students enrolled a decade ago, according to the International Association for K-12 Online Learning. "It's being driven by ...
New type of learning
Times Record News
That's the part of online education that parents first feared but soon praised as remarkably beneficial to their children. Students choose their courses, plan them into a 16-week semester, and make their own daily academic schedule, taking math ...
Money Won't Solve Online Education's Downfalls, But Certification Will
BostInno (blog)
My company, HeatSpring, has been doing non-accredited online professional training since 2008, and since we've always gotten great student reviews, I felt a tad smug reading data on these big classes. Then after reading Walter Frick's article on ...
Training firm 20/20 sets sights on expansion
Scotsman
Some of the lending will be used to set up a £250,000 online learning facility. The firm predicts that its turnover will rise to £2.9 million this year following the expansion drive, up from £2.3m in the previous 12 months. The company, which also has ...
First pan-regional e-academy for youth to open next year
University World News
To ensure quality and credibility, YaLa will partner with top regional and international universities and top companies such as Facebook, Microsoft and Hewlett Packard, on the development and delivery of online courses that are enriching and relevant ...
USD's online MA in education gets 'A'
Sioux Falls Argus Leader
The average overall cost for all master's degrees in the online learning survey was $16,731, putting some of USD's education programs in the top 20 percent of the most affordable online education masters. Lamar University ranked as the most affordable ...
MU invests $2.5 million to expand online learning coursework - People
By Ray Schroeder
BY KEITH REID-CLEVELAND, Columbia Missourian. MU will invest $2.5 million toward creating new online degree and certificate programs in the next year. In total, MU is expected to make an investment of nearly $5 million toward Mizzou ...
Online Learning Update
Online universities blossom in Asia | The Raw Story
By Agence France-Presse
But online learning has also caught the eye of some of the world's most prestigious universities, with Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology recently teaming up to offer free courses over the Internet. “With the improvement in ...
The Raw Story
Online Learning and Educational Products
Online Learning and Educational Products. IRS Live IRS Live is for the tax pro in the know. A live webinar, IRS Live is a panel discussion among IRS experts ...
www.irs.gov/.../Online-Learning-and-Educational-Products
American Public University System Extends Online Learning ...
From Yahoo! Finance: American Public University System today announced that it will continue its leadership role for expanded research under the Predictive ...
finance.yahoo.com/.../american-public-university-system-exte...
Techmeme: Stanford Creates Vice Provost For Online Learning To ...
The web's technology news site of record, Techmeme spotlights the moment's hottest tech stories on a single page.
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School district creates online learning activities for students kept out of ...
Palm Beach Post (blog)
The school district today put a link on its Web site: www.palmbeachschools.org/students/specialactivities.asp , allowing students to access several voluntary online learningactivities during their impromptu break from classes. “The activities are not ...
Online Learning Gains Momentum
NewsChannel5.com
NASHVILLE, Tenn.- More and more students in Davidson County are getting their education without stepping foot in the classroom. Online learning is gaining momentum, mostly among students who want to take a class or two, but more students are choosing ...
Stanford Creates Vice Provost For Online Learning To “Fundamentally Reshape ...
TechCrunch
Stanford University announced the creation of an Office of the Vice Provost forOnline Learning today, appointing computer science professor John Mitchell as the office's inaugural head. In the past 20 years, Stanford has only established two Vice...
TechCrunch
Stanford steps up online learning focus as MOOCs take hold
The Conversation
Stanford University has stepped up its focus on online education with the creation of a dedicated office for online learning, to be headed up by new vice provost John Mitchell. The university said the development, which is part of the larger Stanford ...
Online learning takes off
Kyiv Post
Every Saturday morning, Volodymyr Flonts, a 28-year-old programmer in Kharkiv, gets together with a half- dozen friends to stare at a computer screen. No, this is not a fancy new startup. Instead, they watch lectures posted online by Stanford ...
Kyiv Post
KinderCare® Learning Centers Prepared for Back-to-School
The Herald | HeraldOnline.com
Children at the Clybourn KinderCare(R) in Chicago celebrate the completion of upgrades at their center, including new playground equipment. The Clybourn KinderCare is one of hundreds of KinderCare centers busy preparing for back-to-school with ...
The Herald | HeraldOnline.com
Advocate for free online education
CNNMoney
His current passion: Enabling a billion people to study online over the next 10 years. Says Yue: "Content, learning, credentialing—making all three broadly available and affordable is the holy grail." Quote: "One day someone will be able to take ...
One-Stop, Online Portal for Bayer Seed Treatment Equipment Streamlines ...
RedOrbit
Now, with the launch of the revamped Bayer CropScience equipment website and launch of theonline learning module, treating seeds and running his business have become even easier. “On Demand is awesome, and I like having access to it. The system ...
Filipino Startup Kalibrr Builds an Online Learning Platform for BPO Applicants
Tech in Asia
Enter Kalibrr, the Philippine startup that created an online learning platform to teach Filipinos the skills they need to snag that BPO job. If you complete their curriculum, they'll also help you find the right company to work for. And they do it all ...
Tech in Asia
New Muslim Series | Learning Path to the Basics of Islam: Online Curriculum
MuslimMatters
As was identified in After Shahadah, there seems to be a lack of comprehensive and organized online resources for new Muslims looking to learn the basics of Islam. I promised I would inform you all when the Islamic Institute of Orange County's Dawah ...
Online Learning: How Big a Deal Is Apple's iTunes U Course - People
By Ray Schroeder
By Joshua Kim, Inside Higher Ed. In the future I expect that the features available in Apple iOSCourses will improve. FaceTime seems like a natural addition – so students and instructors could easily jump into a video chat when spending time ...
Online Learning Update
California teacher evaluation bill abandoned by lawmakers
Los Angeles Times
Education advocates Friday hailed the eleventh-hour defeat of controversial efforts to rewrite state rules on teacher evaluations that they said would have weakened initiatives in Los Angeles and elsewhere to improve the quality of public school ...
Los Angeles Times
Looming teachers strike: 'You could see this train coming'
Chicago Sun-Times
1 legislative priority: an education reform bill that paved the way for a longer school day and school year and made it easier to get rid of tenured teachers and tougher for their union to go on strike. Then, an advocate ... Teachers were further ...
Can teacher still be fired?
Bellingham Herald
“The association assists teachers in discipline cases to ensure the process is fair,” said Cristi McCorkle, a representative with the Olympic regional office of the union, the WashingtonEducation Association. WEA spokesman Rich Wood said that the ...
Nearly 900 districts to apply for Race to the Top
USA TODAY
Comments. MIAMI – Nearly 900 school districts across the nation intend to apply for a slice of close to $400 million in grants that the U.S. Education Department will distribute in support of local initiatives that help close achievement gaps and ...
USA TODAY
Education secretary reinstates half of Tech fine
Boston.com
The Education Department had asked Duncan to uphold a $55,000 fine that a judge dismissed in April. The judge had determined that university officials' actions didn't violate the federal Clery Act, which requires schools to issue timely warnings of ...
Emanuel gives Brizard vote of confidence
Chicago Tribune
Mayor Rahm Emanuel publicly backed Chicago Public Schools CEO Jean-Claude Brizard on Friday, saying he's doing "a great job." The mayor's comments came after the Tribune reported that a high-ranking education source said education and business ...
Mainstreaming Efforts Praised in Schools Study
New York Times
Since some schools have special education classrooms with very few students, that could lead to financial shortages, because those schools would still have to hire the same number of special education teachers and aides as if they had fuller classrooms ...
Los Angeles Times
Education advocates Friday hailed the eleventh-hour defeat of controversial efforts to rewrite state rules on teacher evaluations that they said would have weakened initiatives in Los Angeles and elsewhere to improve the quality of public school ...
Los Angeles Times
Looming teachers strike: 'You could see this train coming'
Chicago Sun-Times
1 legislative priority: an education reform bill that paved the way for a longer school day and school year and made it easier to get rid of tenured teachers and tougher for their union to go on strike. Then, an advocate ... Teachers were further ...
Can teacher still be fired?
Bellingham Herald
“The association assists teachers in discipline cases to ensure the process is fair,” said Cristi McCorkle, a representative with the Olympic regional office of the union, the WashingtonEducation Association. WEA spokesman Rich Wood said that the ...
Nearly 900 districts to apply for Race to the Top
USA TODAY
Comments. MIAMI – Nearly 900 school districts across the nation intend to apply for a slice of close to $400 million in grants that the U.S. Education Department will distribute in support of local initiatives that help close achievement gaps and ...
USA TODAY
Education secretary reinstates half of Tech fine
Boston.com
The Education Department had asked Duncan to uphold a $55,000 fine that a judge dismissed in April. The judge had determined that university officials' actions didn't violate the federal Clery Act, which requires schools to issue timely warnings of ...
Emanuel gives Brizard vote of confidence
Chicago Tribune
Mayor Rahm Emanuel publicly backed Chicago Public Schools CEO Jean-Claude Brizard on Friday, saying he's doing "a great job." The mayor's comments came after the Tribune reported that a high-ranking education source said education and business ...
Mainstreaming Efforts Praised in Schools Study
New York Times
Since some schools have special education classrooms with very few students, that could lead to financial shortages, because those schools would still have to hire the same number of special education teachers and aides as if they had fuller classrooms ...
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