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Most Important Education Technology in 200 Years

The Most Important Education Technology in 200 Years
Mashable
The question is a gambit used by Anant Agarwal, the computer scientist named this year to head edX, a $60 million MIT-Harvard effort to stream a college education over the web, free, to anyone who wants one. His point: It's rare to see ... In two books ...

What superstorm Sandy taught me about the failures of online learning (+video)
Christian Science Monitor
As a college English teacher whose school was closed for a week by superstorm Sandy, I learned an important hurricane lesson, one that I suspected all along: Onlineteaching is no substitute for the real thing in person. It rules out the most essential ...

Christian Science Monitor

USC Rossier School of Education Launches Online Master's of Education ...
Sacramento Bee
Modeled after the school's popular online Master of Arts in Teaching program, the immersive onlineprogram is designed for current teachers who are ready to develop advanced teaching methods. Working closely with fellow educators, candidates explore ...

Some online schools a waste of money?
KOKI FOX 23
Taylor is one of 240 students who learns online through Tulsa Public Schools' own program, TulsaLearning Academy, while Chelsea signed up online with another program, Oklahoma Virtual HighSchool through a charter school called Epic One-on-One ...

Kids Online: What's Next in Social Learning and Technology Will Be... Well ...
Huffington Post
New research from communications scholars and learning scientists suggests some specific ways that social media can promote children's learning, including their technical literacies, and important social skills, as well as key academic skills through ...

Is This School the Next Harvard or Just Another Website?
Mashable
But the for-profit company's assumptions about how the Internet will change education can be found, to varying degrees, in most of the scores of startups now getting venture money to do instruction online. The level of venture-capital investments in ...

E-learning can greatly benefit African mining industry
Creamer Media's Mining Weekly
E-Learning is an effective training solution as mineworkers do not need to be split into groups to ensure they get the attention they need – each worker can work through training material at his/her own pace, based on his/her basic education and ...

Campion leading e-learning move
Gisborne Herald
School principal Paul McGuinness looks forward to beginning the phase-in process of e-learningsoftware next year, which will revolutionise the way classroom lessons are delivered to students. “It makes curriculum ... It provides a forum for teachers ...



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