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MIT launches online learning initiative

MIT launches online learning initiative - MIT News Office
'MITx' will offer courses online and make online learning tools freely available. ... Energy EducationTask Force marks five-year surge in energy focused offerings ... be coupled with an MIT-wide research initiative on online teaching and learning ... hope that teachers and students the world over will together create learning ...
web.mit.edu/newsoffice/.../mitx-education-initiative-1219.html

Is Education the Next Industry That Will Be Killed by the Internet?
Forbes
But if I were starting out now I would be very wary indeed of trying for a teaching career in tertiaryeducation. It's entirely possible that in twenty years time there will be perhaps 10% of the number of positions, jobs, doing that as there are now.

Technology Cannot Disrupt Education From The Top Down ...
By Contributor
Computer technology has penetrated the classroom for thirty years with little impact. After hundreds of “disruptive” education startups, the best innovation in education is still the chalkboard. This isn't the fault of the entrepreneurs, but the fault of ...
TechCrunch

9 States Win Early Education Grant
WSLS
By: KIMBERLY HEFLING, AP Education Writer | AP WASHINGTON (AP) Nine states won a collective $500 million Friday from the federal government to help make pre-K and other earlylearning programs more accessible and better capable of narrowing the ...

Binghamton University's education school gets a new name
WBGH
“We do a marvelous job of educating our undergraduate students in their disciplines, but this change will draw attention to our Graduate School of Education's exceptional track record of developingteachers and administrators at the graduate level who ...

State Board of Education OKs tougher FCAT grading system
MiamiHerald.com
By Laura Isensee With a unanimous vote Monday, the State Board of Education approved a tougher scoring system for the FCAT, the state's standardized reading and math exam. The change is meant to raise the academic standards for Florida students. ...

Fla. Legislature shifts focus to higher education
MiamiHerald.com
By CHRISTINE ARMARIO AP Education Writer MIAMI -- Last year, Florida legislators made historic changes to education. Tenure for new teachers was eliminated. Instructor evaluations were revamped and linked to student test scores. ...

Scotland's teacher training places to increase
BBC News
The Scottish government's Education Secretary Mike Russell has recommended a rise in the number of teacher training places. Teaching unions have questioned the move, saying the majority of newly qualified teachers did not have long-term work. ...

BBC News

Curriculum changes pushed back to 2014
BBC News
"The national curriculum should be placed above party politics, so we can give confidence to teachers and head teachers that ministers will not constantly chop and change the curriculum to fit their own ideology," said Mr Twigg. ...

BBC News

Quality education focus of talk in Mon
MorungExpress
The responsibility of providing salary, building, infrastructure, etc lies with the Government while the responsibility of providing quality education to students lies with the teachers and the field staffs, therefore they should know the ...

Teachers feeling under fire at SCF
Sarasota Herald-Tribune
By Christopher O'Donnell Matthew Masucci knew teaching would never be a lucrative career, but because he loved working with students, the English instructor at State College of Florida was happy to trade less money for job security. ...

Two District 181 Teachers Earn National Certification
TribLocal
By Community Consolidated School District 181 Friday at 12:04 pm Two teachers in Community Consolidated School District 181 have achieved national board certification, considered the highest credential in the teaching profession. ...

Digi-Key Corporation and Design News Launch Digi-Key Continuing Education Center
MarketWatch (press release)
The Digi-Key Continuing Education Center is a free virtual training service created exclusively for electronic, design and test engineers. The program, designed by Design News, provides courses that allow engineers to increase their knowledge and ...

Many BC teachers are uncomfortable with their union's demands
Vancouver Sun
It is the issue of leave proposals that is creating the most discomfort for some teachers. BCTF leave proposals include an increase in preparation time (non-teaching time for lesson preparation) to 25 per cent of a teacher's assignment. ...

Kim Jong-un's western education unlikely to result in democracy for N. Korea
Globe and Mail
Anything is possible, but the idea that ruling clans can transform themselves from dictators into democrats on the basis of a brush with western culture or education is a faulty conceit. After he assumes leadership, Kim Jong-un will be the third in a ...

Globe and Mail

Massage Education's Future
Massage Today
You can also argue that it raised the bar for minimum expectations above what people in my generation of students got from one teacher teaching every aspect of a course." It can be argued that with so many accredited schools nationwide and requirements ...

Massage Today

Up Next -- Education Unions' Plans to Reform Schools
The Connecticut Mirror
By Jacqueline Rabe Thomas The education commissioner has been to nearly a dozen school districts during his inaugural tour, hearing what does and doesn't work to improve education -- and last week was the teachers unions' turn to pitch their strategy. ...

Education in dire need of reform
Independent Online (blog)
It was Sadtu who protested when the Western Cape Education Department introduced competency tests. It was Sadtu who rejected competency tests “in their current form” for teachers. Sadtu is the enemy of quality and one of the major reasons why ...

Independent Online (blog)

Learning Curve: School board seeks public input
Santa Fe New Mexican.com
The Board of Education wants your input on how it is doing, how you would like to see it prioritize resources, and what you think of its five goals for its 2012 strategic plan. Those five points are, as board Vice President Glenn Wikle acknowledges, ...

10 Years of Assessing Students With Scientific Exactitude
New York Times
By MICHAEL WINERIP In the last decade, we have emerged from the Education Stone Age. No longer must we rely on primitive tools like teachers and principals to assess children's academic progress. Thanks to the best education minds in Washington, ...

$50M federal education grant to be celebrated
Boston.com
State Education Commissioner Deborah Gist (gihst) will be joined Monday by Gov. Lincoln Chafee (CHAY'-fee) at a Providence pre-school to highlight the Early Learning Challenge grant. Rhode Island is one of nine states to win the grant in the Obama ...

Districts lack minority teachers
Columbus Dispatch
“It used to be a lot better than this,” said Reginald Nnazor, dean of the university's teaching college, adding that competition from bigger universities has led to a drop in enrollment. At Ohio State University's College of Education and Human Ecology ...

Career education focus of talks
Delmarva Daily Times
His teachers encouraged him to further his education in college. He graduated summa cum laude from an associate degree program at Delaware Technical and Community College. "Worcester Tech has played a huge part in my life," he said. ...

Much to consider with teachers' pension system
Bloomington Pantagraph
Johnson also is an education consultant for a Peru law firm and an adjunct teacher at the University of Saint Francis in Joliet. “I put my education to work,” said Johnson, who collects a monthly TRS pension of $8544. Although his pension and extra ...

PRA Announces Partnership With Financial Education & Literacy Advisers (FELA)
MarketWatch (press release)
This 12-page booklet gives an overview of debt collection, its importance to the US economy, and the value of consumer education in the debt collection process. It also identifies common myths about debt collection, which often leave consumers confused ...

Is Tech the Way to get Higher Education Back on Track?
Fox Business
Within the past two weeks, President Obama and his Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan, met with 12 mostly public-university college presidents, many who are already using outside sources to bring innovation to their institutions and teaching processes ...

Abbott and University of Illinois Establish Center for Nutrition, Learning and ...
Sacramento Bee
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has long ranked among the nation's most distinguished teaching and research institutions. Its diverse, world-class programs reflect the mission of a land-grant university. The largest public university in ...

Schools getting by on less: Budget cuts to education mean some adjustments ...
Insurance News Net (press release)
He said teachers continue to work hard and push students, and morale is good. "Morale has not been a issue," he said. When Aberdeen parents were asked about school climate, a common opinion was shared -- a positive school climate is ideal for learning ...

Singapore Math: New Haven Schools Adopt New Method Of Teaching From Abroad
Huffington Post
The new method represents a "paradigm shift for teachers," Mathews said: Students cover less material, but with a deeper understanding. For example, 2nd-graders are learning less about probability and statistics this year compared to years past. ...

Community Management Education a Sound Investment –Yet ...
By jeremiah_owyang
For seasoned or budding community managers, Investing in a solid foundation of learning through an education program and becoming certified is a good investment, yet don't think classroom time is sufficient, as time and experience in the ...
Web Strategy by Jeremiah Owyang...

Futurity.org – Education tied to better cancer outcomes
By Beverly Clark-Emory
The overall difference in mortality trends of people with mouth and throat cancer may be in part due to the smoking and sexual behaviors of people with different levels of education. (Credit: hxdbzxy / Shutterstock). EMORY (US) — The first ...
Futurity.org

Government to concentrate on Early Childhood Education in 2012 ...
By admin
The government of Dominica said its eye will be set on the island's children in 2012. The year will be declared Universal Access to Early Childhood Education, said Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit. Speaking at a church service in Grandbay on ...
Dominica News Online

The New Stupid - Rick Hess Straight Up - Education Week
By Rick Hess
A decade ago, it was disconcertingly easy to find education leaders who dismissed student achievement data and systematic research as having only limited utility when it came to improving schools or school systems. Today, we have come ... The group had recently read a research brief high-lighting the effect of teachers on student achievement as well as the inequitable distribution ofteachers within districts, with higher-income, higher-performing schools getting the pick of the litter....
Rick Hess Straight Up

Don charges stakeholders on support for education
Umuahia – Vice-Chancellor of Abia State University, Uturu, Professor Chibuzor Ogbuagu, has called on government, parents and guardians and all stakeholders to “be inclined at all times to encourage and support education for the ...
Vanguard News

Jane's Pick of the Day: Key Social Learning Resources: Part 15
By Jane Hart
Here is this week's roundup of 5 resources about social learning and the use of social media forlearning. Again lots of great articles to choose from this week. 1 – We start this week with a couple of educational resources. The first is So.cl.
Jane's Pick of the Day

Teaching Argentina « Ken Wilson's Blog
By Ken Wilson
As you can see “MY ENGLISH TEACHERS” were and are “very famous”. Some times I think how much would cost to be privately taught by “these people”, hundreds and hundreds of dollars, I had it for free!!!!. This is my “learning English story”. ...
Ken Wilson's Blog

Yoga teachers are living the dream. But are they making a living ...
By Well+Good
Most yoga teachers are living the dream—they love their jobs. ... “Teaching yoga is an amazing job,” says a popular instructor at trendy downtown yoga studio (whose name we'll keep private, along with the rest of our sources). “But it isn't easy ...
Well+Good NYC

Top six black swans for education in 2012 » Dave's Educational Blog
By dave
The only thing I would have added was Learning Analytics. So… check Hack Education's list. Black swans. I thought i might want to do something a little different this year… I want to talk about Black Swans. A black swan is a suprise event that ...
Dave's Educational Blog

The Best Articles & Posts On Education Policy In 2011 — Part Two ...
By Larry Ferlazzo
…For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL ... I'm keeping The Best Articles & Posts On Education Policy In 2011 — So Far, which covers the first six months of this year, and making this “Part Two” post so that it only covers the last six months. In addition to Part One, you might also ... How OnlineLearning Companies Bought America's Schools is from The Nation. Roxanna Elden ... What Americans Think About Teachers Versus What They're Hearing is from The Shanker Blog. Why Are Finland's ...
Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day..
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Education Minister promises more efficiency in sector : Kaieteur News
By KNews
Minister Manickchand also made reference to the delayed availability of lab chemicals and other materials, which according to some teachers has been hindering their teaching efforts. This dilemma... Minister of Education, Priya Manickchand ...
Kaieteur News

The learning cycle and the power of asynchronous learning activities
By Tom Preskett
It's a cycle and the desired state is multiple loops through the cycle. For every stage the flexibility, time and space offered by asynchronous learning activities is preferable to a purely synchronous involvement from formal education. Of course ...
Learning Technology Learning

Education & Leadership - Preparing the Leaders of Tomorrow ...
The Internet Society supports education and leadership programmes that cultivate the development of young professionals.
www.internetsociety.org/what-we-do/leadership-programmes

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