Forbes
Coursera, a five-month-old online education startup that has already signed up 1.35 million students, just announced that it would add 17 new college partners, upping its roster of schools to 33. The added institutions and courses mean that Coursera ...
Berkleemusic Joins Coursera Education Revolution With Free ...
By Clyde Smith
Berkleemusic itself is not the first distance education initiative of Berklee College of Music. As noted in the announcement of Berkleemusic's involvement with Coursera by Debbie Cavalier, Vice President of Online Learning and Continuing ...
hypebot
Seligman weighs state, future of online learning
Campus Times
While UR maintains its commitment to the residential college feel at least on the undergraduate level, UR's School of Nursing has embraced the trend of online education and plans to expand online offerings in a model that UR President Joel Seligman ...
Campus Times
In brave new world of online ed, Smarterer wants to track what you're actually ...
GigaOM
The new focus on benchmarking is an interesting and potentially big opportunity given the explosion of options for self-directed learning – from Udemy and Lynda toCoursera and Codecademy. For example, if someone takes a Udemy course on ... As we've ...
GigaOM
We speak digital: Boise State is fluent in classroom technology
Boise State University The Arbiter Online
Boise State is creating tech-enabled learning spaces to deploy unique content delivery methods, support student, faculty and staff digital fluency, make additional eContent available, expand research capabilities, develop new support for online ...
Statement by Mayor Rahm Emanuel on the End of the Chicago Teachers Union ...
eNews Park Forest
At Beidler Elementary, students have 60 minutes per week in a new writing lab and 45 minutes for specialized reading at the end of each day – that is learning they didn't have before this year. At Greene Elementary, students have 90 minutes of ... With ...
Startups put new spin on online teaching
San Francisco Chronicle
That experience opened doors for Bali and has fueled his effort to create Udemy, anonline learning resource. The San Francisco startup, which offers courses from a basic Microsoft Excel tutorial to a primer on picking up women, is one of several new ...
San Francisco Chronicle
Blended Learning: Iterating Toward Better Learning At Scale
Education Week News (blog)
"Instead of 'fixing' K-12, let's build something better," said Alex Hernandez from Charter Growth Fund (@ThinkSchools) who opened a conversation among experts in the future of learning. ... While these implementations often resembled existing schools ...
Daniel Boone officials want to create online school
Reading Eagle
Jeff Haas, director of technology, reported that he and Otto had met with the Berks County Intermediate Unit about BCIU's Berks Online Learning program. BCIU handles the administrative responsibilities for the online program, which would allow students ...
York County schools' online enrollment steady
Daily Press
Opening up online classes to private school and home school students this fall has not produced an avalanche of additional enrollments for the York County School Division, according to Coordinator of Online Learning Reginald Fox. He has received ...
Schools Adopting Promising New Learn to Read Remediation Program
San Francisco Chronicle
Following an initial successful pilot project, three Canadian schools have formally enrolled with Dynaread Special Education Corporation: St. Mary's Catholic Independent School of Cranbrook BC, Crawford Bay Elementary-Secondary School of Crawford Bay ...
San Francisco Chronicle
Online classes help earn master's degrees
Houston Baptist Collegian
Dr. Cynthia Simpson, dean of the School of Education, also works with the online education committee and considers this program valuable because of the utilization of distance learning technologies. “A recent surge in innovative technological advances...
Houston Baptist Collegian
Education through collaboration: LAHS grad helps local startup revolutionize ...
Los Altos Town Crier
Los Altos resident Jordan Hamel, 19, is the marketing and social-media guru for Claco.com, an online education community that seeks to empower educators across the globe to deliver more stimulating content to students. The website caters to and ...
Los Altos Town Crier
Back to School: Online Technology from StudyDog Helps Special Needs ...
Seattle Post Intelligencer
Parents and teachers of children with special needs are using advancements in digital learninglike StudyDog to help build reading skills. “Technology is a wonderful tool for ... The online software incorporates interactive characters and games that ...
IBM Pledges $1.3 Million in Education Grants to States With Innovative Early ...
The Herald | HeraldOnline.com
These states -- Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Carolina and Rhode Island -- have all received funding from the United States Department of Education under its $500 million Race to the Top - Early Learning Challenge competitive grant program ...
Transforming TPT: New platforms for lifelong learning, community convening
MinnPost.com
In point of fact, it sounds audacious: They have begun spending a little of the $20 million raised to date on a plan to offer not just broadcasting, but lifelong digital learning opportunities for anyone with a pod, pad, phone, classroom whiteboard or ...
MinnPost.com
A New Season Of Teaching Channel Presents Premieres September 23 And 29 ...
The Herald | HeraldOnline.com
... its online community. Through observational and character-driven stories, teachers can learnfrom their peers' hands-on experience about such topics as how they might tackle tough issues in the classroom, teach students to become good digital ...
Gauteng learners to get tablets
Independent Online
ONLINE: Dinoto Technical Secondary School in Daveyton and Lekoa Shandu Secondary School in Sharpeville, comprising 484 pupils and 28 teachers, will receive Wi-Fi-connected tablets to assist in learning. Picture: AP. Related Stories ... Gauteng finance ...
Independent Online
Voila Learning
Global Toronto
RELATED. Making A Difference with Susan Hay. Bio: Susan Hay. Voila Learning is a service that provides at-home tutoring in French, English and math. The organization uses an online video communication device similar to Skype to connect teachers to ...
University looks into providing video courses online
Student Life
Macias said that @WashULaw is an example of one of the steps the University was taking toward integrating higher education with online learning. “Online courses have the potential to really bring us something new to our education,” Macias said. “It ...
Bretford Introduces Learning Commons Resource Center
Audio Visual News Network
The foundational idea of the iLab is that, along with books, teachers and environment, the learningspace is also an education tool. Student outcomes, teacher evaluations and anecdotal, ethnographic and empirical evidence are being collected to ...
Mid-September reflections on morality
NorthJersey.com
Online education is here for post-high school learning. So, here's a good next step. Because the very young know so much more about computers than their grandparents do, online is the perfect place to address and try to restore the value of courtesy ...
Digital 'Major Long-Term Opportunity' for Scholastic
Digital Book World
Digital revenues for children's e-books have been booming in the early part of 2012, thought to be driven by growth in young adult books that are also being read by adults like The Hunger Games. In addition to publishing children's and young adult ...
Making Connections
Journal & Topics Newspapers Online
Learning is always easier at a younger age. Similarly ... Laura Matuszewski, a 1987 Maine East High School graduate and Glenview native, self-published a picture book in hopes of teaching elementary school children to be accepting of those with ...
SUPERINTENDENTS FORUM: MUSD: Proactive schools fostering 21st century ...
Milpitas Post
Blended learning means that students are getting the best of direct instruction from teachers and the opportunity for student-centered, self-paced learning using the best educational software on the market. ... We are pleased to share with the ...
Cerf:2-trackschoolreform
Dailyrecord.com
Evo Popoff, chief of innovation for the state Education Department, said at the conference that experts contend deregulating teacher contracts could lead to innovative educational models, such as longer school days or combination classroom-online ...
Teaching the teachers, Mechanicsburg's Eduplanet21 uses social learning for ...
keystoneedge
In the 21st century, there is social networking, there is e-learning and now there is Eduplanet 21, a Mechanicsburg startup – and mashup – that blends the two to deliver a new approach to professional development for teachers. The young company ...
keystoneedge
Guidance Software Celebrates 50000 EnCase® Students
The Herald | HeraldOnline.com
Guidance Software Inc. (NASDAQ:GUID), the World Leader in Digital Investigations™, today announced that 50,000 attendees had completed EnCase training courses in its classroom, onlinetraining, or certified partner training programs, learning ...
College claims world first with Facebook photography course
WalesOnline
The pilot scheme has been such a success, Coleg Harlech WEA has applied for grant funding to widen the courses it can offer through Facebook as a “hybrid learning platform.” article_mpuAdvertisement. The online photography course was the brainchild of ...
BLOG: Greetings from West Central School District
Monmouth Daily Review Atlas
In the weeks to follow, check reviewatlas.com for additional blogs that will be published only online. Greetings from the West Central School District. We have been asked to write a weekly blog about what is happening in our school district. We are ...
Instilling Comfort in the Digital Classroom
Technapex
The author, Samantha Gray, commented on how technology is able to cater to the learning styles and personalities of a variety of students: Digital aspects of classroom learning can ... By using web tools like forums, message boards, twitter, or other ...
Won't Back Down Movie: New Film Pushes Faulty ALEC Parent Trigger Laws to ...
PolicyMic
While Parent Trigger was first promoted by a small charter school operator in California, it was taken up and launched into hyperdrive by two controversial right-wing organizations: the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) and the Heartland ...
PolicyMic
Normandy leaders discuss losing accreditation
KSDK
Normandy, Mo (KSDK) -- Normandy school officials spoke Wednesday for the first time since learning the district is losing its accreditation. The Missouri State Board of Education voted Tuesday to pull the district's accreditation on January 1st. The ...
Arkansas Education Department Brings Britannica Resources to ...
By eSchool News
CHICAGO, September 19, 2012—Arkansas students are starting the school year with a dynamic suite of high-quality digital resources from Britannica Digital Learning, courtesy of the Arkansas Department of Education. Under a new licensing agreement by the department, every school, teacher and student in the state—as well as their families—have unlimited access to five of Britannica's majoronline education services for study, homework help, classroom lessons and projects, ...
eSchool News
By eSchool News
CHICAGO, September 19, 2012—Arkansas students are starting the school year with a dynamic suite of high-quality digital resources from Britannica Digital Learning, courtesy of the Arkansas Department of Education. Under a new licensing agreement by the department, every school, teacher and student in the state—as well as their families—have unlimited access to five of Britannica's majoronline education services for study, homework help, classroom lessons and projects, ...
eSchool News
Berkleemusic Partners With Coursera To Offer Free Online Music ...
By BMNN
Boston, MA, September 19, 2012 -- Berkleemusic, the world's largest online music school and the continuing online education division of Berklee College of Music, has signed an agreement withCoursera, an organization that offers classes from top universities and professors for free, ... "Berklee College of Music has always been at the forefront of distance learning," added Debbie Cavalier, Vice President of Online Learning and Continuing Education at Berklee College of Music.
Cybergrass Bluegrass Music News
Educators Worldwide Attend AAIE Institute for International School ...
By Emily Embury
About Performance Learning Systems. Performance Learning Systems is committed to providing educators with the highest standard of online and on-site graduate education courses, professional development and published resources. The company has helped more than 1 million teachers obtain the skills and strategies necessary to meet the needs of today's students and beyond. PerformanceLearning Systems offers more than 45 courses and 13 published resources available in ...
CB&A Education News
How Proctored Exams Work | Inside Online Schools
By Dr. Diane Hamilton
The student takes the test in front of the proctor and then submits it to the school online, or through mail, fax or other method. Students usually find out if they require proctors prior to the ... I loved theonline environment. It totally fit my personality. I was able to take courses any time of the day. I didn't have to sit through lectures. It motivated me to want to advance my education. I always enjoyedlearning but never enjoyed going to class. With online learning, I was able to have it all.
Inside Online Schools
Technology Helps Students Find Comfort In the Classroom
By Getting Smart
Educational tech means utilizing aspects of the digital classroom within the traditional classroom—students use cloud technology to submit and review assignments, teachers facilitate class discussions through online platforms, and students collaborate through online media. These are new and revolutionary elements of learning and education that play an important role in our students' academic experience. Many of us can agree that elements of digital learning facilitate important ...
Gilfus Education Group
Coursera introduces three online learning courses in statistics ...
by Stephanie Kovalchik, Significance. In seeming anticipation of the 2013 Year of Statistics, three ofCoursera's September offerings are new classes about ...
people.uis.edu/rschr1/onlinelearning/?p=5981
Online Learning | Harvard University
Harvard has produced online courses and other forms of digital learning for several decades with the goal of making educational content available to a global ...
www.harvard.edu/resources-offices/online-learning
Online education 'a stepping-stone' toward Milolii school | West ...
Online education 'a stepping-stone' toward Milolii school ... “This virtual academy allowed these kids' inquisitiveness and desire to direct their learning. It's also ...
westhawaiitoday.com/.../online-education-‘-stepping-stone’-to...
Brown to offer free online learning | Brown University News and Events
Brown University has partnered with Coursera, a company that provides a platform to offer free noncredit online courses to the public. Brown will begin with three ...
news.brown.edu/pressreleases/2012/09/coursera
Ohio School District's 'Flipped' - Pearson | Always Learning
To make the flipped classroom a reality, HilliardSchool's teachers and school leaders worked with Pearson to implement the online learning tool MathXL and ...
www.pearsoned.com/ohio-school-districts-flipped-math-progr...
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