MOOC Provider edX Partners with Community Colleges to Improve Workforce

MOOC Provider edX Partners with Community Colleges to Improve Workforce ...
Forbes
Originally founded with a $60 million grant from Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to develop and implement online learning technologies, edXis expanding into community colleges by offering its massive open online courses – known ...

Forbes

Online-education trend expands
USA TODAY
"We're seeing a huge proliferation" in models of online teaching and learning, Vassar College President Catharine Hill says, but the looming question is "Are they any good?" massive open online courses. Jonathan Salvovits, 23, goes over an ... On ...

Dept. of Ed. taps online learning startup Knewton for at-risk youth program
GigaOM
Over the past few years, education technology startup Knewton has helped mostly college students improve their skills across a range of subjects with its digital learning program that adapts in real-time to students' performance and activity on the...

GigaOM

MassBay to try out new online learning program
MetroWest Daily News
Cops and courts · State · Education · Election 2012 · Police & Fire Scanner · Local Sports · Pros and ... MassBay Community College, along with Bunker Hill Community College in Boston, will be the first community colleges in the state to debut a new ...

Vancouver online learning company targets corporate market
Vancouver Sun
As a learning experience, priceless. Earlier in 2012, after spending more than three years developing an online classroom platform for post-secondary education - and attracting $500,000 in funding - the proprietors of local web start-up Matygo decided ...

Colleges Transform Learning by Embracing Innovative Technology
U.S. News University
Technology allows class lectures and other material to go digital.As more colleges and universities embrace technology, the higher education landscape continues to evolve. Recent years have seen online learning grow in popularity, with massive open...

U.S. News University

Downloaders upskill through online learning
Brisbane Times
Ever wondered what it would be like to have a little more education under your belt? Thanks to the ... If you're simply learning for the love for it, many prestigious universities around the world now offer free MOOCs (massive open online courses ...

Brisbane Times

Student attributes success to online learning
The Borneo Post
SHAH ALAM: Online learning, including through social media such as Facebook, has contributed to the success of Nur Afiqah Syahirah Mohd Adnan who scored 5As in her Ujian Pencapaian Sekolah Rendah (UPSR) yesterday. The youngest of six siblings and ...

What we learned about school reform in 2012
The News Journal
In Idaho, three laws associated with Tom Luna, the state superintendent of public instruction, were repealed by referendum, turning back the clock on efforts to phase out teacher tenure, to link pay increases to performance and to expand online ...

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