NoNameSite Announces SoCo Online Learning Program
Sacramento Bee
ORLANDO, Fla., Oct. 1, 2012 -- /PRNewswire/ -- NoNameSite.com, the online community for math and critical-thinking games catering to students from 13 to 18 years of age, today announced the launch of a new series of 76 online learning modules geared to ...
Wiley Makes $220 Million Acquisition of Online Education Company Deltak.edu
Digital Book World
The acquisition, which is expected to close by the end of October, will significantly accelerate Wiley's digital learning strategy and diversify the company's service offerings to include operational and academic solutions for higher education ...
Princeton extends learning through online Coursera classes
Princeton University
Adelman is among seven professors debuting classes on the educational website Coursera as the University explores online technology to enhance learning at Princeton and extend its educationalresources beyond campus. "We can learn a lot from ... "My ...
Online Schools Becoming More Popular, Despite Union Resistance
Town Hall
Online schools, and other forms of digital learning, are an inevitable and promising form ofeducation for the 21st Century, unless special interest forces are able to keep technology from becoming more integrated into everyday education. Professor ...
'A new way of learning'; Jackson Christian School integrates iPads into ...
Jackson Sun
'A new way of learning'; Jackson Christian School integrates iPads into lessons for grades 6-12. Sixth- through 12th-grade students at ... Contact Education Reporter Tajuana Cheshier at 425-9643 or by e-mail at tcheshier@jacksonsun.com. Jackson ...
Diane Ravitch, Part 2: "There Ought To Be a Public Uprising about This Effort ...
The American Prospect
I don't see any examples of where the charter school movement has been so successful that public schools ought to be learning from them. I hear this ... I mean, the issue in the Chicago strike—one of the issues—was that Rahm Emanuel wanted a longer ...
Coursera's Global Education Ambition
Duke University
Durham, NC - The question to Daphne Koller, co-founder of the new online educationplatform Coursera, was this: Are you providing free college courses to lift people from poverty or to provide a comprehensive, far-reaching education to the masses?
Duke University
Two Stories on the Profits of Online Education
StateImpact Ohio
We are expected to pay for digital access to something that fails to improve the learning experience.… The future will only hold more cost for “updating” and “accessing” online features that can be done the same way they have at the university for ...
What should kids be learning in school?
Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman
What should kids be learning in school? This is a question at the root of many an ideological debate. But I don't want to take on that broad of a consideration now. Instead, I'd like to refine this question to: What do kids need to become successful ...
James Madison Creates Online Community for Online High School Students
Equities.com
Part of the JMHS virtual campus, the community was conceived to be an essential component of theonline high school learning experience. The community is also the gateway into a personal student portal where students are able to access their accounts, ...
University of Mexico sees increase in online learning enrolment
Virtual College
According to the university's leaders, the figures reveal that the UNM is becoming more accessible to distance learners and the number of enrolments could increase to 134,784 by the end of the 2015-2016 school year. Jeronimo ... According to Mr ...
HIVE advances virtual learning to next level
NIU Today
More and more K-12 students are getting online every day to do everything from shopping to playing games to connecting with friends, but many schools have been hesitant to embrace emerging interactive technologies in the classroom. ... This project was ...
More Universities Offer Free Classes Online
Audio Visual News Network
There is no doubt that online learning is the future of learning. 17 leading universities, including Brown, Columbia, Emory, Vanderbilt, and Wesleyan, will start offering free cyber courses through theonline education platform Coursera, according to a ...
Reading, 'riting, RAM
Fort Dodge Messenger
Every day, district students are using programs such as Moodle and Animoto and technology such as tablets for reading e-books in their studies. Moodle is a free, online course management system used by high school students through Iowa Learning Online.
Voyager Learning Kicks Off 2012-2013 Math Mania Competition Today!
IT News Online
DALLAS, Oct. 1, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Voyager Learning, the nation's most comprehensive provider of preK–12 intervention learning solutions and education services, knows that mathematics fluency and understanding is essential in a child's life. And, we ...
Schools ordered to drill distance learning paths
Ynetnews
The Education Ministry directed primary schools across Israel to practice onlinedistance-learning in order to prepare for a drastic happening such as war or an earthquake. The "Emergency e-Learning" project was launched in 2010, mostly in schools in ...
Ynetnews
Parents agree: School choice works
OneNewsNow
A recent poll shows that public support for school choice -- including vouchers,education savings accounts and online learning -- has reached an all-time high. The PDK/Gallup poll shows that demand for school choice is increasing because parents are ...
OneNewsNow
Online challenge to campus life
The Age
Hosting online learning would become one of the primary purposes for the bricks-and-mortar campus, he said. Under his vision, students would gather in online hubs studying with classmates from worldwide in the campus of the future, replacing packed...
The Age
ClevrU partners with Schulich School of Business Professors to target online ...
MarketWatch (press release)
In the age of ITunes, videotaping lectures or converting existing textbooks into e-books won't make you the market leader in online education. Thanks to a new partnership between ClevrU, and NewMindsets Inc., facilitated by MaRS Innovation and York ...
Educational 'climate change' and SMART education
The Korea Herald
They can learn optional courses online such as Arabic, which was unavailable because no teacher was in charge of the subject in school, and their online classes are recognized as regular credits. Their career path ... This type of learning system is ...
The Governor General Launches Eduzone, an Online Educational Tool on the ...
U.S. Politics Today
OTTAWA, ONTARIO -- (Marketwire) -- 10/01/12 -- His Excellency the Right Honourable David Johnston, Governor General of Canada, invites you to discover Eduzone, a new online tool designed for teachers, educators and students across Canada. Eduzone ...
Fort Worth School Adopts Online Classes
NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth
The school had one student test drive the online program, the VHS Collaborative, last year and now has 26 students taking classes taught by teachers around the country. Three Trinity Valley School teachers also teach three of the more than 400 courses ...
School is in Session: Create Free Online Classes with teachem's "The School of ...
MarketWatch (press release)
It is perfect for universities and other learning institutions, teachers, companies, and experts of any kind. Best of all, it's free. The format is simple: ... What makes this platform so ideal for any organization is that the user can specify who has ...
The Woodlands LearningRx voted Best Learning Center Second Year in a Row
The Paper Magazine
THE WOODLANDS, TX – Oct. 1, 2012 – In a recent survey conducted by Spring MomsOnline, The Woodlands LearningRx has been voted the Best Learning Center for 2012. ... Located at 4840 West Panther Creek, Suite 205 in The Woodlands, the center offers one ...
The Paper Magazine
Md. company offers college courses online
Delmarva Daily Times
His Baltimore-based startup provides a platform for students to take their general education courses for only $99 a month, potentially shaving thousands off tuition in a severely recessed economy. The product that Straighterline provides isn't just low ...
Red Comet's Core Courses for High School Online Learning Receives Approval ...
PR Web (press release)
Red Comet announced today that its core online high school courses are now approved by NCAA®. Being a self-paced online learning program, with state certified teachers providing individual attention to students, athletes can now fit Red Comet high ...
Coursera makes Penn courses more accessible
The Daily Pennsylvanian
An online education startup from Stanford, Coursera offers free online classes taught by top university professors across the nation. A Coursera course grants students instant access to several hours of lecture videos and quizzes put together by the ...
Where charters run the neighborhood schools
Philadelphia Public School Notebook
“Without a real education plan designed to mitigate the effects of poverty on learning, the only ones who benefit in the long term are the pockets of the charter school companies,” said teachers' union president Jerry Jordan. Former Superintendent ...
Philadelphia Public School Notebook
Hebrew Class Uses iPads For Teaching, Learning
Harvard Crimson
Students in Intermediate Modern Hebrew class learn about verb conjugation using the digital textbook that senior preceptor Irit Aharony has created for the course. Harvard has provided iPads to students for use throughout the semester. In this fall's ...
When do students and teachers cross the line through social media?
ZDNet
When do students and teachers cross the line through social media? Summary: Should social media be used as a learning platform and tool in education, or are the 'risks' too high? Charlie Osborne. By Charlie ... Students can abuse this -- such as the ...
Robotics program growing at BHS
Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman
Students are learning to enjoy rigorous academic content areas and gaining experience in a rapidly growing job field. Subscription Required. An online service is needed to view this article in its entirety. You need an online service to view this ...
MRUniversity.com Launches Revolution in Online Learning
MarketWatch (press release)
"We think education should be better, cheaper, and easier to access," notes Cowen in the announcement of the new site, "so we decided to take matters into our own hands and create a newonline education platform toward those ends." The first course in ...
Another Kind of Climate Change
Education Week News (blog)
With this new venture, Education Week actually will be exploring classroom conduct, school climate, student engagement, and a host of other nonacademic factors that affect students' learning—sometimes just as much as the textbooks they read and the ...
Learn the Fundamentals: Paid Search Optimization
Business 2 Community
Learning the fundamentals here is paramount to your success, especially as you dive deeper into analytics and complex data. Let's Talk Match Types. Keyword match types are important to know because they dictate what your ... This keyword can match out ...
The Doors Are Open to Free Online Math Tutoring for Ontario Students
Voice of Toronto
Homework Help (ontario.ca/homeworkhelp) provides online math resources at no charge for Ontario students, including 1:1 tutoring with Ontario Certified Teachers five days a week: Sunday to Thursday from 5:30 pm to 9:30 pm ET. ... “Math skills are ...
Survey: Three-Quarters of K-12 Publishers Will Go Belly up Unless They Go ...
Digital Book World
This survey reflects one of the biggest challenges facing the learning resource industry: how to best create blended materials, or digital materials that can be integrated with print. About Data Conversion Laboratory, Inc. DCL (www.dclab.com) is a ...
MOOCs offer options as quest for knowledge evolves
The Age
Coursera, the biggest MOOC, is rapidly heading towards 1.5 million students. To go from ... education. Though universities in the online market stress the educationalequivalence of online and on-campus modes of study (and this is not just spin, the ...
The Age
MOOC Brigade: With Free Online Classes, Guilt Is Part of the Bargain
TIME
In any event, it's time to buckle down. Everyone in higher education is obsessed with MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) these days, and taking one sounded like a good idea. ... As I watch Devlin's first lecture, which seems more like an introductory ...
TIME
Elementary School Teacher Becomes a Millionaire
Technapex
TeachersPayTeachers is an online marketplace where teachers can buy and sell original downloadable education materials, hard goods, and used educationalresources. The idea of the platform is that teachers can join as either buyers or sellers, and use ...
Technapex
Does ed tech need its own Consumer Reports?
GigaOM
Submitted by two business school professors, Duke University's Aaron Chatterji and Northwestern's Benjamin Jones, the nonprofit program, called EDU STAR, would quickly and rigorously assess new learning tools and then report the results to the public ...
GigaOM
PR Web (press release)
Red Comet announced today that its core online high school courses are now approved by NCAA®. Being a self-paced online learning program, with state certified teachers providing individual attention to students, athletes can now fit Red Comet high ...
Coursera makes Penn courses more accessible
The Daily Pennsylvanian
An online education startup from Stanford, Coursera offers free online classes taught by top university professors across the nation. A Coursera course grants students instant access to several hours of lecture videos and quizzes put together by the ...
Where charters run the neighborhood schools
Philadelphia Public School Notebook
“Without a real education plan designed to mitigate the effects of poverty on learning, the only ones who benefit in the long term are the pockets of the charter school companies,” said teachers' union president Jerry Jordan. Former Superintendent ...
Philadelphia Public School Notebook
Hebrew Class Uses iPads For Teaching, Learning
Harvard Crimson
Students in Intermediate Modern Hebrew class learn about verb conjugation using the digital textbook that senior preceptor Irit Aharony has created for the course. Harvard has provided iPads to students for use throughout the semester. In this fall's ...
When do students and teachers cross the line through social media?
ZDNet
When do students and teachers cross the line through social media? Summary: Should social media be used as a learning platform and tool in education, or are the 'risks' too high? Charlie Osborne. By Charlie ... Students can abuse this -- such as the ...
Robotics program growing at BHS
Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman
Students are learning to enjoy rigorous academic content areas and gaining experience in a rapidly growing job field. Subscription Required. An online service is needed to view this article in its entirety. You need an online service to view this ...
MRUniversity.com Launches Revolution in Online Learning
MarketWatch (press release)
"We think education should be better, cheaper, and easier to access," notes Cowen in the announcement of the new site, "so we decided to take matters into our own hands and create a newonline education platform toward those ends." The first course in ...
Another Kind of Climate Change
Education Week News (blog)
With this new venture, Education Week actually will be exploring classroom conduct, school climate, student engagement, and a host of other nonacademic factors that affect students' learning—sometimes just as much as the textbooks they read and the ...
Learn the Fundamentals: Paid Search Optimization
Business 2 Community
Learning the fundamentals here is paramount to your success, especially as you dive deeper into analytics and complex data. Let's Talk Match Types. Keyword match types are important to know because they dictate what your ... This keyword can match out ...
The Doors Are Open to Free Online Math Tutoring for Ontario Students
Voice of Toronto
Homework Help (ontario.ca/homeworkhelp) provides online math resources at no charge for Ontario students, including 1:1 tutoring with Ontario Certified Teachers five days a week: Sunday to Thursday from 5:30 pm to 9:30 pm ET. ... “Math skills are ...
Survey: Three-Quarters of K-12 Publishers Will Go Belly up Unless They Go ...
Digital Book World
This survey reflects one of the biggest challenges facing the learning resource industry: how to best create blended materials, or digital materials that can be integrated with print. About Data Conversion Laboratory, Inc. DCL (www.dclab.com) is a ...
MOOCs offer options as quest for knowledge evolves
The Age
Coursera, the biggest MOOC, is rapidly heading towards 1.5 million students. To go from ... education. Though universities in the online market stress the educationalequivalence of online and on-campus modes of study (and this is not just spin, the ...
The Age
MOOC Brigade: With Free Online Classes, Guilt Is Part of the Bargain
TIME
In any event, it's time to buckle down. Everyone in higher education is obsessed with MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) these days, and taking one sounded like a good idea. ... As I watch Devlin's first lecture, which seems more like an introductory ...
TIME
Elementary School Teacher Becomes a Millionaire
Technapex
TeachersPayTeachers is an online marketplace where teachers can buy and sell original downloadable education materials, hard goods, and used educationalresources. The idea of the platform is that teachers can join as either buyers or sellers, and use ...
Technapex
Does ed tech need its own Consumer Reports?
GigaOM
Submitted by two business school professors, Duke University's Aaron Chatterji and Northwestern's Benjamin Jones, the nonprofit program, called EDU STAR, would quickly and rigorously assess new learning tools and then report the results to the public ...
GigaOM
Pay For One Course, Get a Bunch with BenchPrep's Low Cost ...
By Kate Freeman
Online learning site BenchPrep recently announced a $30 per month subscription-based service to access a wide variety of courses. ... SEE ALSO: 5 Startups Transforming Online Education · BenchPrep offers courses for all would-be learners — from high school freshmen to business professionals, in an interactive online setting. In addition, the site will roll out 30 digital textbooks for high school and college students over the next few months. BenchPrep cofounder Ujjwal Gupta tells...
Mashable!
By Kate Freeman
Online learning site BenchPrep recently announced a $30 per month subscription-based service to access a wide variety of courses. ... SEE ALSO: 5 Startups Transforming Online Education · BenchPrep offers courses for all would-be learners — from high school freshmen to business professionals, in an interactive online setting. In addition, the site will roll out 30 digital textbooks for high school and college students over the next few months. BenchPrep cofounder Ujjwal Gupta tells...
Mashable!
Princeton's Computer Architecture professor on books and online ...
By Ale
This fragment is part of a communication sent today by professor David Wentzlaff to onlineparticipants of Princeton's Computer Architecture course on Coursera, while the rest of the communication is specific for the participants, I think this part is interesting as it ... Well no, you are welcome to watch the lectures, work problems, and take exams without any books, but you should realize that your learning experience may be more challenging than if you had the best tools for the job.
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