Coursera Expands Slate of Universities and Courses

Education Site Expands Slate of Universities and Courses
New York Times
Coursera, a start-up online education company that has enrolled 1.35 million students in its freeonline courses since it began just five months ago, is now more than doubling, to 33, its partners, universities that will offer classes on its platform ...

Log On and Learn: The Promise of Access in Online Education
Forbes
We have to start looking into ways to reduce the cost of higher education. Technology and online learning specifically, if thoughtfully employed, could reduce these costs, and allow our college students to graduate without being shackled to a gross ...

Forbes

Vanderbilt University to offer free courses online through Coursera ...
By Melanie Moran
Vanderbilt University will make its first institution-wide foray into offering worldwide, free, digitalcourses by some of its leading faculty members in spring 2013 via the digital learning consortiumCoursera. “Partnering with Coursera will allow Vanderbilt ... “We set out to make educationaccessible to everyone around the world, and seeing our vision come to life has been an incredible experience,” said Daphne Koller, co-founder of Coursera. “With the addition of the exceptional, forward ...
Vanderbilt News

Virtual School MOOC – Research into K-12 Online Learning ...
By mkbnl
Tags: cyber school, education, high school, massive open online course, MOOC, research, virtual school, vsmooc12. The third topic in Introduction to ... The vast majority of what we know about full-time K-12 online learning has been published or funded by corporations providing full-time K-12 online learning – and that is a problem given that for the last three to four years this is where the greatest growth within the field of K-12 online learning has occurred. Beyond the full-time K-12 ...
Virtual School Meanderings

Coursera Announces Big Expansion, Adding 17 Universities ...
By Ray Schroeder
Online Learning News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor ~ University of Illinois at Springfield. « In MOOCs: More is less and less is more (Part 3). Coursera Announces Big Expansion, Adding 17 Universities. by Jeffrey R. Young, ...
Online Learning Update

UBC joins Coursera to offer free online courses « UBC Public Affairs
By Lorraine Chan
Coursera was founded in 2011 by two Stanford University professors to transform teaching andlearning through Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). Partnering with top-tier universities that include Stanford, Princeton and the University ...
UBC Public Affairs

Your Online Ivy: Coursera Now Hosts 200 Courses From 33 Schools ...
By Rip Empson
... hit record lows. Stanford professors Daphne Koller and Andrew Ng launched Coursera earlier this year to fling that door wide open. ... The co-founders created a platform that provides the framework and hosting services for massively open online courses, or MOOCs, to bring, via the Web, an eliteeducation to the public for free. At launch, when there ... But universities see Coursera as an opportunity to experiment online learning and alternative teaching techniques. In the beginning ...
TechCrunch

Top Online Learning Group Awards NYU-Poly's Robert Ubell its Highest ...
The Herald | HeraldOnline.com
Under Ubell, NYU-Poly pioneered robust support systems and procedures for its remote learningstudents and faculty. Ubell steered the growth of e-learning, and he enlisted guidance from world leaders in digital education. Ubell also heads NYU-Poly's ...

Greg Kesich: LePage administration shows soft spot for online learning companies
Press Herald
2, Maine Sunday Telegram staff writer Colin Woodard wrote a meaty account of how companies like K12 Inc. that sell online learning products fund former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush's nonprofit Foundation for Excellence in Education. That group lobbies states ...

Mature Market for Online Education
Inside Higher Ed
The market for online higher education aimed at adults may be reaching maturity, according to a new report from Eduventures. And without a better-defined product, the report's author said online learning faces a risk of petering out and being little ...

Does Online Education Deal with Budget Cuts?
The Corsair
But the research also indicates a gap in the retention rates between students in distance learningand students in face-to-face classes, with many of the faculty and students skeptical about the value and legitimacy of the delivery method. ... The ...

Indiana schools 'seek more e-learning tools'
Virtual College
Many schoolchildren in the US state of Indiana who wish to receive the benefits of online learningare unable to because of the rising number of families who cannot afford laptops or tablets. Over a third of public school students at institutions in ...

Schools move toward online exams
Houma Courier
The state Department of Education is pushing for all schools to administer their tests online by the 2014-2015 school year, two years from now. School ... And, as school districts all over the state struggle with shrinking budgets, purchasing computer ...

A framework for independent learning in Montgomery County Public Schools?
Examiner.com
Superintendent Starr reportedly said that once the district is able to place all the classrooms on an equal technological footing, educators will be able to focus on what the teaching and learning environment would look like. ... Under the policy ...

Examiner.com

Chicago teachers vote to return to classroom
LubbockOnline.com
Members of the Chicago Teachers Union's House of Delegates celebrate Tuesday after the delegates voted to suspend a strike against the nation's third-largest school district. Classes were to resume today. Back | Next. Karen Lewis, president of the ...

Online school offers English language classes 'on the move'
Gulf Times
Through OSE's innovative CITRIX learning platform, clients are able to access their individually-designed course materials, as well as seeing, hearing and speaking to their tutor throughout each session,” elaborated a spokesperson for the school.

Gulf Times

Winter Sports School seeks charter school status
Park Record
The idea to switch from an independent school to a charter school came after years of on-and-off talks between the Park City School District (PCSD) Superintendent Ray Timothy and Rob Clayton, the WSS Head of School, but it wasn't until last spring that ...

R&R Driving School services offered in Pocatello, surrounding area
Idaho State Journal
POCATELLO — With the new option of online driver's education, area students are now learningto drive on the digital highway and that means the road to a learner's permit just got shorter. R and R Driving School, a long-time, local private driving ...

Rossland Secondary ironing out challenges of blended learning
Rossland News
Blended Learning landed at Rossland Secondary School in September and as with any new innovation, there have been some questions and challenges as everyone figured out where they had to be, and what they needed to be doing. ... It is the convergence of ...

Innovative teaching a boost for rural students' learning
www.kamloopsnews.ca
Rural students needs to connect with classmates and teachers to succeed, according to Erin Khelouiati, a Thompson Rivers University who studied the subject for her master's degree. That's because the intimacy of small communities is reflected in rural ...

BenchPrep, 'Spotify for education', offers classes and test prep for $30 a month
VentureBeat
The Chicago-based company, which launched in 2011, differs from a free online course service likeCoursera, as its curriculum-based courses and test prep are supplemented by licensed textbook content from publishers, including McGraw Hill, O'Reilly ...

Learning from the Best: A Conversation with Two National Online Teachers of ...
MarketWatch (press release)
The International Association for K-12 Online Learning (iNACOL) will host a webinar on Thursday, September 20th, sharing the insight and experience of two National Online Teachers of the Year, Kristin Kipp (2011) of Jeffco 21st Century Virtual Academy ...

'Parent Power Index' Rates States
Education Week News (blog)
17 by the Center for Education Reform (CER), aims to show parents how much influence they have over certain aspects of their children's education in their state, compared to parents in other states. To create its index, the CER team used a select group ...

OH: State education monopoly will crumble soon, expert says
Montana Watchdog
The state quadrupled the number of private school vouchers and lifted a cap on charterschools. Sommers stepped down in February and took a job as CEO of Carpe DiemLearning Systems, which runs tuition-free online charter schools. Now that he's in the ...

Montana Watchdog

Arkansas Education Department Brings Britannica Resources to Schools ...
PR Web (press release)
Arkansas students are starting the school year with a dynamic suite of high-quality digitalresources from Britannica Digital Learning, courtesy of the Arkansas Department of Education. Under a new licensing agreement by the department, every school ...

Freedom Academy welcomes first group of students
Imperial Valley Press
Today, it is a small group of students learning about the weathering process by shaking a small jar filled with vinegar and pieces of sandstone. ... Through the local school district here, the academy offers all home-schooled students in Imperial ...

Turning the page on learning
TheChronicleHerald.ca
The English teacher at Sir John A. Macdonald High School has his students create profiles on Facebook for the play's various characters. As students work their way through The Merchant of Venice, they use their cellphones to make the characters ...

TheChronicleHerald.ca

Education Dept. investigating complaint that some UM online classes not ...
The Republic
Travis Moses, a blind student, said he can't always do his homework because some online videos loaded onto the learning management system Moodle don't have adequate captions and someonline images are not clear enough for a screen reading ...

Mallard Online: German Students Visit THS
my.hsj.org
They took notes in classes like Physics and American Government, and even had the chance to speak in their native tongue with Taylor HS students learning German. Going through the schoolday with Powell and Patschke, there were many differences that ...

Learning with the Wizard
Early County News
Lions, scarecrows, tin men, witches and girls in red slippers crowded the halls at ECES last week when first graders came to school dressed as their favorite Wizard of Oz character. See story on page 1B ...

OSU to offer free online classes on Coursera
Columbus Dispatch (blog)
"This is the finest tradition and calling of our land-grant heritage." OSU is delighted to be part of this forward-looking approach to teaching and learning and will add other courses in time, Alutto said. Since offering its first classes six months ...

13 High Schools Worth Visiting
Education Week News (blog)
Carpe Diem , located in Yuma Arizona, is the best example of a 50/50 blend with an effective combination of personalized online learning in a lab setting and workshops taught by masterteachers. 3. Classroom assessment. As featured in a recent Getting ...

Take-home netbooks open new worlds for Ballico students
Modesto Bee
The cutting edge of education technology booted up in Ballico School as excited sixth-, seventh- and eighth-graders signed on to netbooks with "anywhere Internet" that they get to take home. "Pretty cool," said eighth-grader Blaine Chance as he signed ...

Modesto Bee

NZPF President's speech to Trans-Tasman Conference
Voxy
As we know, all good learning begins with a leap into the unknown but it takes a huge leap of faith to organise a conference of this magnitude. I know there have been some ... Wherever the economic agenda has been implemented we see common features of ...

The VHS Collaborative Appoints Jeffrey A. Elliott as New Chief Executive Officer
MarketWatch (press release)
Founded in 1996 and headquartered in Maynard, MA, The VHS Collaborative (formerly Virtual HighSchool Global Consortium) is the pioneer of K-12 online learning, having first brought online learning into secondary education. Since then, the nonprofit ...

Opinion: The new school curriculum means following the Yellow Brick Road to ...
Vancouver Sun
The greater value of education for every student is not in learning the information but in learningthe skills they need to successfully find, consume, think about and apply it in their lives.” Privateschool teachers and administrators must be laughing.

Ford Launches Innovative Education Initiative with Irving ISD
Sacramento Bee
... Raul Magdaleno in a motivational rally to challenge students to be resilient and pursue theireducation. Rallies also will be held at Nimitz and Irving High Schools on September 19 and 20, and will be available online for all Irving ISD high school ...

Grant to aid education department
Chart (subscription)
The Teacher Learning Community is an online resource that provides professional development training for faculty and school administrators all over the world. “This is a great opportunity,” Dr. Al R. Cade, Interim Dean of School of Education, said. “We ...

Ed Moore: Testing so we can better teach
Gainesville Sun
Many great online tools exist that can be developed so that teachers can get feedback quickly and assessments can become tools for teaching and learning. Governor Scott's transition also called for administering all assessments online. We could go one ...

USF trades Blackboard for Canvas
The Oracle
After more than 12 years, USF will be transitioning from Blackboard to a new online learning management system called Canvas, which is a product of the educational software company Instructure. The USF System Learning Management Committee made the ...

Longer Hours, Less Experience for Charter Teachers, Analysis Finds
Education Week News (blog)
What are the educational backgrounds of teachers working in charters, private schools, and regular public schools? The paper finds that nearly 11 percent ofcharter-school teachers are likely to have attended "highly selective" colleges, and 8.4 ...

Education Week News (blog)

Poughkeepsie High hailed for progress by state education chief John King in visit
Poughkeepsie Journal
The visit gave him a firsthand look at how the grant, received last year, was being implemented to improve learning at the school. “Students can take classes online to make up credit,” said Edgar Glascott, Poughkeepsie High School principal. “If you ...

Vanderbilt's Newest Digital Learning Initiative | Center for Teaching ...
By Derek Bruff
Blog. Vanderbilt's Newest Digital Learning Initiative. By Derek Bruff, CFT Director. This morning Vanderbilt announced a new partnership with the digital learning consortium Coursera. Coursera is anonline platform for open-access, non-credit ...
Center for Teaching

Online, Continuing, and Professional Education Update by UPCEA ...
By Ray
Centralized Online Learning: A New Trend in Higher Ed? - Tanya Roscorla, Center for Digital Ed. Announcements from major university systems this week could signal the start of a trend that brings sophisticated online learning programs into ...
Online, Continuing, and Professional...

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