Does Online Education Need to Be Free to Succeed? - Technology Review: "Here at Technology Review, we’ve been doing some research for an upcoming business report on digital education. It’s an area that’s been receiving a lot of interest from venture capitalists and entrepreneurs—the general idea being that technology will “disrupt” education as we know it, and maybe create a few billion-dollar companies along the way (see “The Crisis in Higher Education”). According to Dow Jones VentureSource, VCs invested $217 million in digital-education companies during the first half of 2012—more than they did during all of 2010. The explosion of new companies is creating a complex environment, as this map of the dozens technology companies active in K-12 schools makes clear."
EdX: Harvard's New Domain
Harvard Crimson
Lue emphasizes that this close evaluation of the learning process is what makes HarvardX's approach to online education unique. “Platforms [like Udacity or Coursera] don't really think about how it comes back to their campuses, but we are both external ...
Idaho teachers experience online Khan Academy
Northwest Cable News
With such a good response from teachers, the J.A. and Kathryn Albertson Foundation brought theKhan Academy back to Idaho to enhance its vision of limitless learning. Armed with laptops and tablets, 250 teachers from throughout Idaho gathered to ...
Digital Chameleon announces e-learning uptake for digital media courses
MuMbrella
Sydney, 5 October, 2012: Sydney-based digital learning company Digital Chameleon has announced it now has 524 e-learners enrolled in its online digital marketing courses. Thee-learners hail from across all parts of Australia and work in over 30 ...
There are online options for LEUSD students
The Friday Flyer
Lake Elsinore Unified School District currently has the Southern California OnlineAcademy (SCOA), a dependent charter school created by the district that serves Transitional Kindergarten (TK) to 12th grade students online, and the Virtual Learning...
The Friday Flyer
Class2Go launches new massive open online courses
The Stanford Daily
Class2Go, a new massive open online course (MOOC) platform developed by a Stanford team, is joining the more established Coursera and Udacity platforms to offer a total of 16 courses this fall. Jane Manning and Sef Kloninger '93, staff members in the ...
School Improvement Network Chosen By Kentucky Department Of Education To ...
School Buyers Online
PD 360 is a research-based, on-demand professional learning platform that hosts an ever-growing library of over 2,000 video segments on 125 educational topics with nationally renowned educationexperts. PD 360 is also home to the world's largest online ...
Milpitas students receive e-learning from Chromebooks
Virtual College
He stated the tools are being used at two elementary schools in the area as part of a pilot programme in blending learning. Furthermore, at the Rancho Middle School and the DigitalBusiness Academy at Milpitas High School, students have been handed ...
Post-secondary institutions jumping online with Coursera
Canadian University Press Newswire
Suzanne Stevenson, vice-dean of teaching and learning at the Faculty of Arts and Science at U of T, believes that Coursera offers a completely revolutionary way of looking at post-secondary education. The online courses incorporate lecture videos and ...
Canadian University Press Newswire
GUEST COLUMN: A new kind of classroom
The MIT Tech
With the evolution of massive open online course (MOOC) and online learning, in the near future students will no longer need a lecture to learn material. We are already seeing the ... This represents a major change in model of education. Teachers are ...
Virtual school opens up to D50 students
Our Colorado News
Online learning is now available to all high school students within District 50. Westminster Virtual Academy opened this fall, and already 80 students have enrolled, choosing a technological route for their education. The academy ... school year. It is ...
Flexible learning for adults
Selangor Times
This mode is a combination of both face-to-face and e-learning methods where students can catch up with their lessons even when they are on-the-go. “The idea is to make higher education and training affordable and accessible to working adults,” said...
Selangor Times
5 Skills for Blended-Learning Teachers
T.H.E. Journal
Teachers only receive real data on how students are doing every few weeks, and they don't have a lot of time to do anything with it. As the Charter School Growth Fund's Alex Hernandez writes, the shift to online learning will produce a "fire hose of ...
Three Digital Marketing Priorities Straight From (Gasp!) Academia
Forbes
Learning can't stop once you earn a college degree or finish a graduate program. In fact, given the rapid rate of change impacting every aspect of our industry, ... Think like an e-publisher. Professor Deighton realized back in 2000 that digital ...
Forbes
KATV - Breaking News, Weather and Razorback SportsSonic Funds Teacher ...
KATV
It was a part of Limeades for Learning. For the past four years, Sonic has donated more than $2 Million to public school classrooms across the country. Teachers go online to submit projects they want funded. Whichever project receives the most votes ...
Brick or Click Universities?
AllAfrica.com
Kigali Institute of Education (KIE) has e-learning collaborations with universities from India and South Africa, reaching around 500 students, while KHI, the faculty of Medicine and the school of public health all under the National University of ...
Should We Connect School Life to Real Life?
MindShift (blog)
Innovative ideas - projects, processes, curricula, and more - that are transforming how we teach andlearn. ... Excerpted from Will Richardson's new TED Book Why School: How Education Must Change When Learning and Information Are Everywhere. ... Or ...
Humanising values at the heart of nurse education
Nursing Times
The second of two articles discussing humanising care proposes that this kind of human-centred care should form a key part of nurse education. Humanising care, part 2 of 2. Nursing TimesLearning. Are you interested in studying? Boost your knowledge by ...
Technology benefits teachers and students at CCHS
Trussvilletribune
From the introduction of e-readers and tablet computers to Interactive White Boards, the school is offering students and teachers many new ways to use electronic resources in the teaching andlearning process. This year, the school has purchased 30 ...
Four ways banks have ruined higher education
Salon
The tiered housing policy is not only unjust, it also undermines the responsibility of higher educationto equip leaders to explore diverse perspectives, understand the multiplicity of human cultural expression and experience social emotional learning ...
'Digital Champions' needed to help Wirral computer novices
Wirral Globe
They will be able to pledge their support as “digital champions” to help someone they know getonline or learn new skills on the internet, at a Wirral Family Learning Festival next Friday (October 13). The event is hosted by Wirral's Union & Community ...
What Does it Mean When a College Kid From Ecuador Beats the Best?
Education Week News (blog)
Hewlett wants to see deeper learning in American classrooms and recognizes that assessment can influence instruction. The online assessment of Common Core State Standards will frame U.S. education the way NCLB and AYP framed the last. The short ...
Education Week News (blog)
Social work students need to be careful about online identities
The Guardian
When on placement, students need to clearly understand the rules and ethics in relation to the use of social media and electronic devices, and to understand how professional codes of conduct, placement learning agreements, and agency policies provide ...
The Guardian
George Cigale Named Visiting Fellow at the Johns Hopkins University School of ...
RedOrbit
He has seen the results of asking students for their opinions about their learning from delivering more than eight million tutoring sessions online through Tutor.com, and receiving millions of student comments and completed surveys. Cigale has also ...
Great Falls Elementary applauded for technology use
The Herald | HeraldOnline.com
Microsoft will fly Great Falls Principal Wendell Sumter and a teacher to Prague, Czech Republic, in November to meet with other Innovative School officials and present their approach at the Partners in Learning Global Forum. Garrett sees potential ...
The Herald | HeraldOnline.com
Review of school services
Donside Piper and Herald
An online survey is available at https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/GRCY82V for parents to share their views until Friday, December 7, while school staff will receive a consultation pack to discuss their views as a team. In addition, consultation events ...
Perry calls on universities to adopt competency-based learning model
Austin American-Statesman
Under the competency-based approach used by the mostly online WGU, students can also get credit for relevant military or corporate training. Speaking at a conference in Austin sponsored by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, Perry reiterated ...
Hours after school can be as important as hours in class
Inside Tucson Business
Beyond the safety factor, afterschool programs are a logical, strategic and vital extension of in-school education that support learning, academic achievement and personal growth and development. Nine out of 10 Americans believe all youth should have ...
Santa Catalina School installs solar panels
Santa Cruz Sentinel
Santa Catalina School students are learning lessons in saving money and solar energy now that 360 photovoltaic panels were installed at their school. Considered the largest solar energy installation in Monterey city limits based on production potential ...
Online first: Milken Center presents Discovery Awards
Fort Scott Tribune
The Lowell Milken Center, dedicated to "repairing the world" through project-based learning, announced that projects from Prince George County, Virginia, Carlisle, Iowa, and Denver, Colorado, earned first, second and third place, respectively, in its ...
BC Education Plan Linked to Private Corporations
TheTyee.ca
The plan's online presence is designed around the idea of a continuous discussion with the public about what it would like to see in the future for education in B.C., but the ministry hopes to have a new BC Education Program by 2014. A key part of the ...
E-Tech Africa Conference and Exhibition Official Opening Speech By PM ...
AllAfrica.com
The e-learning concept was launched at Chogugudza School in Domboshwa and John Landa Nkomo school in Tsholotsho. The e-learning concept's primary focus is to reduce the economic, social and educational inequalities existing in our communities.
Oklahoma colleges need to alter business model to expand
NewsOK.com
That's disappointing because online learning is growing in the world of higher education. L. Rafael Reif, president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, recently wrote in The Wall Street Journal of that school's venture into online education ...
Maximizing the Instructional Impact of Videoconferencing
T.H.E. Journal
But Education Consultant and Executive Director of Academic Programs and Faculty at Daymar Colleges Group Ruth Reynard argues that it can improve teaching and learning as well. By Ruth Reynard; 10/04/12 ... "A growing number of public and charter ...
UC Irvine Extension And UCI OpenCourseWare Earn Four Impact Awards At ...
Sacramento Bee
The social media efforts of the UC Irvine Extension marketing team combined with the content-rich webinar series developed by the school's industry-leading course instructors garnered much attention at the conference – leading to wins in four separate ...
UBM Electronics Launches "Marketing to Engineers Symposium" at Online ...
Sacramento Bee
"Online Marketing Summit is the venue of choice for digital marketing leaders to gather to learnabout digital marketing advancements," said Shannon L. Ryan, GM, Online Marketing Summit. "We offer an educational environment that facilitates learning, ...
Higher education plc: cheating in the marketplace of ideas
The Guardian (blog)
Teachers know that plagiarism undermines the foundational values of higher education. The recent cheating scandal under investigation at Harvard University is just one reminder that plagiarism is a pervasive problem, whether the school is online or Ivy ...
The Guardian (blog)
Quick Takes | Higher education round-up: Oct. 5
The Daily Pennsylvanian
Columbia University. Faculty looks into online learning. Two weeks after announcing that it will begin to offer massive open online courses through Coursera next semester, Columbia's University Senate is turning its attention to the future of online ...
How Mooresville is effectively teaching every child, every day
Charlotte Observer
Another key is measuring how well each student is learning the material. Teachers have easy-to-use assessment tools that allow them to do online assessments every four and a half weeks.Teachers can quickly gauge a child's progress, see needed areas of ...
Eaker Center school transforms its structure, changes name
Maxwell Gunter Dispatch
The last area deals with future learning, civilian education and labor management relations in the most cost-effective manner. This is achieved through the application of such distance learning tools as e-Blended Learning, Defense Connect Online and ...
Sydney-based Digital Chameleon leads digital education online in ...
By CB
side_dc_01.jpg Sydney-based digital learning company Digital Chameleon has announced it now has 524 e-learners enrolled in its online digital marketing courses. The e-learners hail from across all parts of Australia and work in over 30 ...
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What's Next on the School Reform Agenda : Education Next
By Michael Petrilli
Expect reformers to do to school leaders what they've done to teachers: Develop more rigorous evaluation systems; open up alternate routes into the profession; offer differential pay for tough assignments or exceptional performance; etc. ... Digital Learning. With the support of Digital LearningNow! and former governors Jeb Bush and Bob Wise, advocates in many states will be pushing to eliminate “seat time” requirements; create or expand online charter schools; and tweak ...
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Ohio's Academic Future is Online, NPR Predicts | Education News
Today the state's virtual academies and online charters play host to over 30,000 kids who have chosen to forgo the typical classroom environment in favor of setting their own schedule and learningfrom home. ... About 90% of all Ohio online learners took classes from one of seven statewide onlineschools, while the remainder attended virtual academies with a narrower, more local focus — like thecharter school operating in Akron that boasts a student body of 1,000 area students.
Education News
Coursera CEO discusses benefits, future of online education
“You also get really good feedback, which is not really common with other online learning platforms.” Coursera employs a number of grading methods, including ...
www.thedp.com/.../coursera-ceo-discusses-benefits-future-of-o...
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