Austin American-Statesman
The University of Texas System agreed Monday to join edX, an online learning platform, putting $5 million and the intellectual heft of 15 academic and health campuses into the nonprofit partnership founded by Harvard University and the Massachusetts ...
At Stanford, scholars debate the promises, pitfalls of online learning
Stanford Report
Online learning is not just one thing, and it is far from static, he said during his lecture Oct. 11 titled "Prospects for an Online Fix: Can We Harness Technology in the Service of Our Aspiration?" But it is here to stay. He was once a skeptic, he ...
Stanford Report
University online courses attract thousands of students
University of Virginia The Cavalier Daily
Tens of thousands of students have signed up for the University's non-credit online courses set to begin January as part of the University's venture with online-learning company Coursera, according to data released by University Information Technology ...
Rocklin Charter School Abruptly Shutting Its Doors
CBS Local
It may not look like your textbook school campus and that seems to be part of the problem at Horizon's Accelerated Learning Academy charter school in Rocklin. ...Teachers and volunteers have been in a rush to get everything out. ... “My daughter is my ...
CBS Local
Coursera uptake figures 'astonishing'
The Australian
Coursera has attracted nearly 1.4 million enrolments and 33 university partners, including Stanford, Princeton, Columbia and University of London. Professor Davis said Melbourne's decision to joinCoursera was about learning how to best use new online ...
Redefining Learning
Express Computer
The education sector is, therefore, trying to weave these features into the process of impartinglearning through the deployment of various IT devices and applications. The Indian education ...While there is still considerable demand for PCs, servers ...
Hobsons Accelerates its Growth in Online Admission and Educational ...
Sacramento Bee
"Online communities have become the go-to resource for learners seeking an undergraduate or graduate program," noted Craig Heldman, chief executive officer of Hobsons, Inc. "This acquisition adds greater breadth and depth to Hobsons' existing digital ...
McGraw-Hill and Dragonfly Sign Agreement for English-Learning e-Books
Technapex
McGraw-Hill Education's agreement with Korea's leading digital media company Dragonfly is set to yield a series of interactive e-books to enhance English languagelearning among young Asian students. After all, there is more to the English language...
Technapex
High School Students Weigh in on Common Core Debate
Huffington Post (blog)
I received a series of emails from a high school Participation in Government class who found one of my older columns about common core online and were disappointed because they could no longer post replies. They are seniors ... I am suspicious of their ...
Mobile Learning Presents Opportunities and a Challenge to Modern Educators
Knowledge@Wharton
Incredibly portable and simple to use, yet possessing the computing power and presentation ability to rival a desktop machine, tablets are tools that will aideducation as no digital innovation has before, attendees were told at a conference on mobile ...
Knowledge@Wharton
Florida officials want more than $400M to expand digital learning
eSchool News (registration)
The initiative represents the board's major funding push for the 2013-14 school year and is both philosophical and practical. State leaders think digital education, where students and teacherscan tap into lessons and do work online, is key to ...
Learning With Less: Making Computer Classes More Than A 'Parking Lot'
OPB News
OPB is tracking that challenge through our ongoing education series, "Learning With Less." For the ... When the school board approved the budget, the nine-or-so elementary schools with certified technology specialists, lost them. ... school. But ...
UT System Joins Online Learning Effort
Texas Tech Pulse
The University of Texas said today that it has joined an effort to bring online learningand education to Internet users, as part of the edX non-profit learning collaborative, founded by Harvard University and MIT. The UT system said it will begin ...
Texas Tech Pulse
TSC embraces digital books
Brownsville Herald
Don Kilburn, vice chairman of Pearson Higher Education, applauded TSC's commitment to its new mission of transforming the communities it serves through innovative learning opportunities. He said the partnership with Pearson will help the college ...
Spilman: Education holds a community together
NUjournal
"Online learning with a mix of classroom time is definitely an opportunity to enrich the school curriculum," he says. "This can happen at both the elementary and secondary levels." "Students have always challenged their teachers to allow them more ...
NUjournal
Univ. of Texas joins online course program edX
Corpus Christi Caller Times
The UT system is joining edX, a non-profit learning initiative founded by Harvard University and MIT that offers what are called massively open online courses that include interactive laboratories, virtual reality environments and access to online ...
RIVERSIDE: School board hears about grant application
Press-Enterprise
Ramona High School students use their digital tablet computers in the classroom to do school work. Riverside Unified School District is proposing such innovations as blending classroom lessons with online learning or instructional computer programs...
Press-Enterprise
Students test 'Teach to One' learning system
The Idaho Statesman
“If it works like we think it will, it'll be a game-changer,” said D.C. schools Chancellor Kaya Henderson of the new program at Hart Middle School in Southeast Washington, where less than 30 percent of students are proficient in math. This is the ...
Online language courses can transform any trip
The Independent
For structured online learning, try learndirect (learndirect.co.uk), where language courses are priced at £29.99. Access to the course lasts for 12 months and you can work through the different exercises and quizzes as often as you like in that time to ...
The Independent
UAE parents complete e-Citizen online training course
Virtual College
... parents of the safe uses of computers and the internet. Online learning has become more widespread across the UAE, with the Bee'ah School of Environment announcing last week plans to extend digital education services to more schools in the country.
From Pencil to Pixel (2)
Express Computer
... a school's premises. Education was considered to be a field that had nothing to do with technology and everything to do with teachers and books. ... According to Adil Jehangir, Country Head- Marketing, India & South Asia, Smart Technologies, “The ...
Charting a Future for Catholic Education
City Journal
Borrowing its educational model from some top charter schools, Mission Dolores practices “blended learning”—a combination of online tools with classroom instruction organized around individual student needs, not regimented lesson plans. Two blended ...
Lessons, learning and loot: Teachers cash in by selling materials online
Cape Cod Times (subscription)
Teacherspayteachers.com is one of the biggest. It was started by a former teacher in New York in 2006 and quickly grew. Others followed, like the sharemylesson.com run by the American Federation of Teachers, the nation's second largest teachers union, ...
University of Texas Joins Harvard-MIT EdX Online Venture
Businessweek
The University of Texas System plans to put up $5 million to join the EdX online venture, started by Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, to help meet demand for low-cost college courses. The Texas ... After raising tuition ...
Digital Safety presentation for parents and teachers
Daily Clay County Advocate-Press
Monmouth -- The Regional Office of Education #27 is sponsoring a free community presentation for parents and teachers interested in learning about digital safety. This presentation will be given by Christine Feller, an Internet Safety Specialist ...
University and UT System Join EdX Online Learning Initiative
University of Texas at Dallas (press release)
UT Dallas President David E. Daniel joined with UT System colleagues in announcing a joint venture between the edX online nonprofit learning initiative and the UT System.EdX is a not-for-profit enterprise founded by Harvard University and MIT ... help ...
University of Texas at Dallas (press release)
U. of Texas aims to use MOOCs to reduce costs, increase completion
Inside Higher Ed
So far the universities partnering with edX and Coursera on massive open online courses (MOOCs) have focused on the ideal of lowering the barriers to elite courses. But edX's newest partner, the University of Texas System, has more pragmatic ... Cost ...
New online syllabuses for NSW kids
The Australian
Education minister Adrian Piccoli on Tuesday announced the online syllabuses for English, maths, science and history for kindergarten to grade 10. He said the initiative would support "the highest quality teaching and learning in NSW". Public schools ...
School hears funding update
Escanaba Daily Press
ESCANABA - The Escanaba School Board was updated on the status of potential funding for the district through implementing certain "best practices" at Monday's school board meeting. In June, Gov. Rick Snyder enacted legislation which would appropriate ...
A partner in better education
Vancouver Sun
... of CAIS (Canadian Accredited Independent Schools), Collingwood has enjoyed a number of key benefits that have helped us to improve teaching and learning for our faculty and students," says Susan Hazell, the Executive Director of Advancement at ...
UT System to join online course collaboration with Harvard, MIT
Dallas Morning News (blog)
“But by leveraging new technologies we can enhance student learning, we can accelerate graduation and we can hold down the cost of higher ed. … EdX will help us envision a new model for public higher education for the 21st century.” The UT Board of ...
Cambridge Judge Business School Executive Education completes 2nd cohort ...
The FINANCIAL
Richard Hill, Business Development Director at Cambridge Judge Business School Executive Education, commented: “The cornerstone of the week has been participants delivering the action learning projects that they have been working on for the last six ...
No school on Friday? Take part in 'asynchronous learning day'
Kenosha News (subscription)
“Asynchronous learning days” are planned for days when school is not in session due to professional development programs for teachers. The new enrichment ... Subjects include literacy and literature, math, physical education and health, science, social ...
UT-Austin at the Front of New Online Learning Partnership | The ...
By Andrew Roush
The University of Texas at Austin will be leading the UT System in a global initiative to provide massive open online education courses. The UT System Board Of Regents voted Monday to approve a partnership with edX, a non-profit company ...
The Alcalde
Distance-Educator.com e-Newsletter – 10/15/12 « Virtual School ...
By mkbnl
Click here RESEARCH-BASED ARTICLES OF THE WEEK Towards motivation-based adaptation of difficulty in e-learning programs The objective of this study was to investigate if an e-learningenvironment may use measurements of the user's current motivation to adapt the level of task difficulty for more effective learning. In… ... Christopher Edley Jr., dean of the Berkeley School of Law, pitched the idea of a systemwide online-education program in 2010, suggesting private support.
Virtual School Meanderings
Ask an Expert: Making the most of online learning | EdNewsColorado
By Ann Morrison
Last, while online teachers can provide information to students, they cannot watch and listen for student learning and adjust instruction accordingly. In the face-to-face environment, a teacher can look at student faces and listen to their ...
EdNewsColorado
U. of Texas System Is Latest to Sign Up With edX for Online Courses ...
By Alisha Azevedo
The system's health centers will be able to expand continuing-education and online-learningopportunities for doctors and “more effectively reach out to the world,” said David L. Callender, president of the University of Texas Medical Branch, ...
Wired Campus
Explore Online Learning - Digital Learning Department @ OSPI
Digital Learning Department. Skip Navigation ... Online Learning Options · Overview · Online Courses · Online School Programs · Learning Option Comparison ...
digitallearning.k12.wa.us/options/explore.php
Online learning initiative reinventing medical school « Online ...
by Brian Tobin, Stanford University. Andrew Patterson, MD, associate professor of anesthesia, is convinced that the only way forward in medical education is ...
people.uis.edu/rschr1/onlinelearning/?p=6177
Princeton University - Coursera co-founder to discuss online learning
Daphne Koller, co-founder of the free online education site Coursera and the Rajeev Motwani Professor in Computer Science at Stanford University, will discuss ...
www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S34/97/.../index.xml?...
The Growth of Online Learning - COLSD
Online learning is a growing presence in our nation's schools. At the collegiate level, we've had fully online schools like the University of Phoenix or the Art ...
centerononlinelearning.org/the-growth-of-online-learning/
Educycle website helps Bay Area teachers buy, sell and give away surplus classroom supplies - SiliconValley.com: "For a profession that can be obsessive about reusing, recycling and rescuing random items for the classroom, Mary Loung's brainchild seems like such a natural fit, you'd wonder why no one had thought of it earlier. Educycle, a kind of Craigslist for teachers, helps them sell or pass along usable school materials and shop for ones they need. The 2-month-old site also enables businesses to donate surplus equipment to schools."
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