Online Education Grows Up, And For Now, It's Free

Online Education Grows Up, And For Now, It's Free
NPR
It has been around in some form since the 1990s, but what is new is the speed and scale in which online learning is growing. In barely ... While students aren't earning actual degrees through Coursera, Koller says they are getting an education that has...

NPR

5 Ways That edX Could Change Education
Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription)
Can community-college students benefit from a new form of hybrid learning, based on a mix of local instruction and edX content? ... "It's a live laboratory for studying how people learn, how the mind works, and how to improve education, both ...

Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription)

The Learning Design Opportunity of Our Time
Education Week News (blog)
A framework like this powered by individual learning plans on a platform like Bloomboard allows teachers learn on their own, with colleagues at school, and with an online professional learning community. As suggested in Digital Learning Now !

Enrollment In Online Schools In Ohio Passes 30000
NBC4i.com
Last year's state budget set a deadline: If the legislature doesn't take action by January, standards set by the International Association for K-12 Online Learning will automatically take effect. Most of Ohio's full-time online schools are operated by ...

Cumberland Farms Supports Learning with Believe and Achieve Scholarships ...
The Herald | HeraldOnline.com
We believe that today, more than ever, high school graduates deserve the education of their dreams without finances standing in the way, and we're proud to ease their costs,” said Ari Haseotes, President of the Cumberland Farms Retail Division. “We ...

Keep your kids safe at school
Fairport-E.Rochester Post (blog)
The start of the school year is a time of great anticipation for parents and kids alike. New teachers. New classes. New and old friends. It’s a ... Get to know your kids' teachers. Send your child's teacher an email to introduce yourself and ...

HH virtual learning going strong
Martins Ferry Times Leader
CADIZ -- The Harrison Hills City School District's board of education heard a report on the continuing growth of the district's online virtual learning academy. Intervention Specialists Robert Richards and Adrienne Cook reported 32 students are ...

A Blog Hopes Its New Online Course Will Be More Than Marginal
New Republic (blog)
George Mason's first foray into online education—debuting Monday—is a similarly insurgent venture: it is a course on Development Economics that comprises a series of several-minute-long narrated PowerPoints, complete with colorful underlining of key ...

Distance Learning and the Future of Education
Huffington Post
While they enjoy and use live interaction with colleagues and teachers, it no longer holds the monopoly position it once held. Even classes that meet in ... As comfortable as today's students are with the technologies of distance learning, they wouldn ...

Music helps teen overcome bullying
Santa Fe New Mexican.com
Learning Curve: Music helps teen overcome bullying. The New Mexican ... Looking to express her feelings about being on the receiving end of mean comments and cruel actions, the Santa Fe HighSchool teen wrote the ballad “Sometimes” (“Sometimes you don ...

Grant brings mobile learning lab to Parkway
Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal
Thanks to a grant the school recently received from the Carpenter Foundation, Jones was able to whisk Parkway's mobile learning lab into her classroom at the 480-student kindergarten through second grade school. Each of students ... “A lot of times ...

The Global Search for Education: The Education Debate 2012 -- Howard Gardner
Huffington Post
Teachers are expected to deal with the range - little talk about 'special needs' or 'specialeducation.' There is plenty of art, ... What would be your position on school choice, includingcharter schools and their expansion, private schools, vouchers ...

Buy-in from top schools helps new online courses tell story
PRWeek
The average age of students using distance learning is 40. Of those, more than nine out of 10 are currently employed and looking for a promotion, according to the Distance Education and Training Council (DETC). Coursera, a for-profit online higher ...

Virtual classroom, real students: Incarnate Word Academy launches online high ...
Corpus Christi Caller Times
The high school senior plans to study geophysics at Texas A&M University and hopes the virtual writing courses will expand her written words and language ahead of higher learning. Rivera said though they interact online, she's built bonds with her ...

A Pioneer in Online Education Tries a MOOC
Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription)
I'm not a complete neophyte to online learning. Back in 1999, I led the start-up team for Fathom ...Coursera, a new company that offers free online courses through some of the world's best-known universities, had the widest and most impressive ...

Adapt Courseware Presents “What Would the Best Online Learning Experience ...
PR Web (press release)
"By merging online learning theories with hands-on digital interactives, institutions can deliver a truly productive, individualized, and fun learning experience," said Dr. Boersma. Quote end. Rochester, NY (PRWEB) October ... Florida from October 10th ...

Barnes & Noble Celebrates Educator Appreciation Week October 13-21
DailyFinance
Booksellers also will demonstrate an exciting new digital education tool, the Nearpod mobilelearning platform (www.nearpod.com). "Nearpod allows teachers to synchronize the use of NOOKs in the classroom via a teacher and student app. They can create ...

Ucas launches new application scheme for GCSE students
Telegraph.co.uk
By Andrew Marszal, Education Digital Editor. 2:00PM BST 01 Oct 2012. Comments. Ucas, the universities and colleges admissions service, has launched a new online application scheme enabling pupils aged 16 and younger to apply for apprenticeships and ...

Telegraph.co.uk

DC at DEMO: High school CEO debuts Hallway
Washington Post (blog)
McElrath is the founder and CEO of Hallway, an online education forum that helps students connect with others from across the world to discuss academic questions. The company is making its ... So, to facilitate the type of learning that still goes on ...

Technology upgrades make a difference at Brunswick County Academy
StarNewsOnline.com
The laptops are proving to help the alternative school's students gain a sense of responsibility and independence. Teachers say they've helped students progress at a faster rate. Students say they've made learning fun, fast and relevant. The laptops ...

VTech® Puts Kids Ahead in Educational Development with VTech University
Sacramento Bee
CHICAGO, Oct. 1, 2012 -- /PRNewswire/ -- Today, VTech Electronics North America, LLC (http://vtechkids.com/) is launching VTech University (http://vtechkids.com/university) an onlineprogram that uses the gaming technology of VTech's popular learning ...

e-Scholars
Aljazeera.com
Is today's educational system broken? As the use of technology continues to increase in our everyday lives, has the physical classroom become outdated? Salman Khan, founder of the world's most popular online learning site, the Khan Academy, joins us to ...

How to Teach Digital Storytelling in High School
PBS MediaShift
No matter the subject we teach, if we don't consider and carefully plan what skills students arelearning and practicing by employing technology in the classroom, we're doing our students a disservice. It took me awhile to figure this out. ... Howard ...

Westside Students Use Technology to Master Education
41 NBC News
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) -- Teachers and students at Westside High School are taking a different approach to teaching and learning. Blended ... Activities that otherwise would have taken place during class time, are now completed online. Westside ...

Teaching through art: Conference looks at unconventional ways to boost ...
CultureMap Houston
In a room tucked away on the third floor of the Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture at the University of Houston, a group of educators felt how students respond when they learn through dance mediums. ... second annual Houston Arts Partners 2012 ...

Working Twenty-somethings Drive Demand for Online Degrees
Einnews Portugal
The group, dubbed TWISTAs (Twenty-somethings With Income Studying to Advance) are usingonline degrees or distance learning as a route to learn while they earn to advance in their careers without the burden of debt. Dr Phil Hallam, CEO of RDI, said ...

Fund for Teachers Grants Encourage Teachers to Pursue Learning Around the ...
Equities.com
... impact my students' learning.” By submitting the answers on an online application available today, teachers' could receive $5,000 per individual or $10,000 per teaching team to fund their odysseys. “With my ... “I conversed with international ...

Humanities in the Digital Age
Inside Higher Ed
Yet, in this same time we are in the first phase of a digital revolution in higher education. Much of the teaching and learning apparatus has moved online. Computational technologies and methodologies have transformed research practices in every ...

Parent Education Speaker Series to kick off Oct 4 at Inly School
Wicked Local
Deborah Roffman, author, educator and consultant on sexuality education, will speak at Inly Schoolin Scituate on Thursday, Oct. 4 at 7 p.m. She will discuss her latest book, “Talk to Me First: Everything You Need to Know to Become Your Kids' 'Go-To ...

Tule River Education Department delivers
Porterville Recorder
“We have a cafe' on site, we cater and we cook for the school. He will leave pretty familiar with how things will be.” Breedlove has been learning the foundations of the culiary arts and everything from the basics of cooking, baking and pastries to ...

Tenino students get help from a PRO
TheNewsTribune.com
IN THE CLASSROOM Students, teachers and staff members at Tenino Elementary School are abuzz over the school's new literacy program, Power Reading Online. “I like it because there are a lot of good stories,” said fifth-grader Shaleigh Isom, 10. “And it ...

LearningMate Announces Expansion With New Office Space in Rajarhat, Kolkata
Exec Digital (press release)
MUMBAI, October 1, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- LearningMate, the leading provider of online learningsolutions to the education sector, on its ninth anniversary announced the opening of its Kolkata office at Ecospace, Rajarhat. With this expansion ...

Educators work on improving schools
Stanly News & Press
Sunday, September 30, 2012 — The Stanly County Board of Education met Monday and Tuesday nights at Albemarle High School for the purpose of presenting school improvement plans. Representatives from ... Dr. Sandra Carter noted that this department will ...

The Rise of the Tech-Powered Teacher
Education Week News
When teachers have real-time data and a clear understanding of every child's needs, they can use their precious classroom time more effectively and flexibly. When students are learning at a pace and level appropriate to their individual needs, they are...

Education Week News

iKnowEnglish: Learning English on the Move
Tech in Asia
In China, learning english as a language outside school curriculum is usually either too costly or too time consuming. Thanks to 36Kr for ... Users are able to view othersonline, and can initiate chats and exchange ideas online. As of now ...

Tech in Asia

NextEducation targets Rs 500 cr turnover in 4 years
Times of India
KOCHI: Technology driven education enterprise NextEducation, offering innovative learningsolutions to CBSE, ICSE and state board schools, is aiming Rs 500 crore turnover in four years by covering 10,000 schools pan India, a company official said ...

Some medical classes at Stanford adding online lectures
Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal
According to Stanford, the move will allow class times to be spent on "more engaging activities" and is being led by Charles Prober, senior associate dean for medical education. The move, called SMILI (Stanford Medical Interactive Learning Initiative ...

OPS pushes for wireless upgrades
Omaha World-Herald
State officials say the online exams save money — no more buying paper-and-pencil tests. The mandate will have a few exceptions: Special-education students and students learning English can still take the paper-and-pencil versions of the tests, Foy said.

Emerging Tech for Online Learning Symposium – CFP Open ...
By mkbnl
Tags: call for proposals, conferences, cyber school, education, high school, Sloan-C, virtual school. Another item from Friday's inbox… Submit your Proposal Now ... The Emerging Technologies forOnline Learning International Symposium, a joint Symposium of Sloan Consortium and MERLOT, is designed to bring together individuals interested in the review and evaluation of online teaching andlearning technologies. Faculty, students, instructional designers, instructional ...
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Online Education Grows Up, And For Now, It's Free
Online education isn't particularly new. It has been around in some form since the 1990s, but what is new is the speed and scale in which online learning is growing. In barely a year, many of the most prestigious research universities in the ...
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Laguna Blanca School gets involved with Online Learning | The ...
For the first time, this year, students at Laguna Blanca School are doing something they've never done before. They're taking courses online at their school, ...
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Thrive with Online Learning – Digital QATAR - The Hotspot for ...
Your employer might also have an arrangement with online learning solutions like Qatar Nationale-Learning Portal (QNEP) that is not available for individuals, ...
www.digitalqatar.net/2012/09/29/thrive-with-online-learning/

Online schools provide options in education | Sun Post
Dakota said he was bullied in school and also didn't have his educational needs met. The Moos family talked about their decision to switch to online school with ...
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Learning Solutions | Custom e-Learning | TATA Interactive Systems
Enabling online learning for K-12 and Higher Education ... University and school education is undergoing a seismic shift brought on by technology. Educators ...
www.tatainteractive.com/education-e-learning-solutions.html

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