Education Week News (blog)
The second post examined the development of virtual school policy in Massachusetts and Maine, explained how policies in those states seemed to be benefiting the largest corporate providers ofonline learning, and advocated for open policy as a way to ...
Libraries keep learning going after school
Philadelphia Inquirer
Whether they attend public, charter, private, or parochial school, these students gather together daily at the Free Library to read, interact, learn, and grow. ... Though the school day ends in midafternoon, learning shouldn't have to. ... Whether they ...
Vanderbilt to begin offering free online courses
NorthJersey.com
The program is part of the digital learning consortium called Coursera, an online platform developed last year at Stanford University for open-access classes. The courses that will be offered are known as massively open online courses or MOOCs and ...
Dedicated teachers set up independent school
The Voice Online
The dedicated couple have focused over the combined 50 years of their teaching careers on helping children and young people in primary and secondary schools extract the most from their learning environment. The respected teachers ... The independent...
The Voice Online
Arizona school students seize learning day with computer-based lessons
NBCNews.com (blog)
A public charter school in Arizona is taking a new, computer-based approach to teaching its students. NBC's Rehema Ellis reports. ... The middle and high schoolers kick off the day in thelearning center, then rotate between completing online ...
Virtual charter schools coming soon to South Florida
Sun-Sentinel
Now that the Florida Legislature has authorized "virtual charter schools" for kids as young as kindergarten, brace yourself for a strange new world of online education run by private companies. It will be a world without brick-and-mortar ... Besides ...
In Arizona desert, a charter school computes
NBCNews.com
reporter: this is carpe diem , a public charter school in arizona that opened seven years ago for students 6 through 12. all 240 students spend two-thirds of the day completing coursework and listening to online lectures in addition to core lectures ...
NBCNews.com
New MIT president tells of vision for future
Boston Globe
CAMBRIDGE -- MIT faculty, staff, and students officially welcomed L. Rafael Reif as the school's 17th president Friday, and he laid out a vision that further embracesonline education, bolsters investment in research, and makes education more ...
Boston Globe
Israel's Hebrew U. joins largest online educational project in world
Haaretz
Israel education. Hebrew University of Jerusalem is among the latest batch of institutes of higher learning to join a massive online educational project, geared at allowing Internet users access to courses from the best universities in the world. On ...
Haaretz
More training online than face to face
Winnipeg Free Press
Since I could not attend school full time and there were no self-study programs available in Manitoba, I quite naturally directed my interests toward one of the first distance education colleges in the United States. In fact, I made a deal with them. I ...
Purdue not on MOOC bandwagon
Journal and Courier
The recent announcement by Mountain View-based Coursera underscores the rapid expansion of so-called MOOCs, or massive open online courses, that are reshaping the higher educationlandscape. Coursera, a for-profit company started by two computer ...
Are online k-12 schools more apt than traditional ones?
The Voice of Russia
Another though, has gone back to his old school, claiming his lack of self-discipline to be the main reason why the platform wasn't a good fit for him. “On-line learning with certified teachers can be used effectively in public schools. But learning ...
The Voice of Russia
The Mayor's Desk: Affordable options for learning
Gloucester Daily Times
The middle school social studies teacher informed us that the textbook that he uses in his class is available for free online through the publisher's website. Rather than lug ... The student can go to the website, turn to the page in the textbook he is ...
YouTube seeking education video 'gurus'
Phys.Org
The globally popular Google-owned video-sharing venue teamed with Internet education innovatorKhan Academy to find, train and promote 10 "super-talented and engaging content creators." "We have seen the demand for educational videos on YouTube ...
Is Everybody Right When it Comes to the Future of Education?
BostInno (blog)
Reif was inaugurated on Friday, but not before he spoke about the evolution of teaching and learningwith edX President and MIT Professor Anant Agarwal. After watching students complete courses through MITx, what Agarwal found is that “instant feedback ...
Online-LPNPrograms.net Clears the Air Regarding Educational Requirements ...
RedOrbit
Online nursing education site addresses recent university study report on earning potential of non-college graduate nurses. ... “One of the most-appealing features of the nursing profession for young people is that they can get an entry-level position ...
Learning the lessons of cinema
Knutsford Guardian
KNUTSFORD school children will once again be able to go to the town's cinema free of charge for a week next month as part of National Schools Film Week. Film Week 2012 will run from Monday, October ... The goal of National Schools Film Week is to ...
Interest in online courses growing
The Advocate
And while Internet-based learning formats can be a revenue generator for colleges, they can represent bigger workloads for faculty and financial hazards for students who lack the discipline to finish courses. Public colleges also have to look in their ...
Top college courses, for free?
CNN
Editor's note: Daphne Koller is Rajeev Motwani Professor in the Computer Science Department at Stanford University and co-founder and co-CEO of Coursera. She is the recipient ... It would have taken him 250 years to reach the number of students he ...
UCI to offer free courses
Daily Pilot
UCI announced Thursday its partnership with Coursera and contribution of six courses toCoursera's online library of university-level courses from top institutions, including Duke, Princeton, Wesleyan, Stanford and Johns Hopkins universities. "We are ...
School board to consider new district improvement plan Monday
Salisbury Post
EAST SPENCER - Members of the Rowan-Salisbury Board of Education will be asked to approve the latest district improvement plan Monday. The plan outlines the ... In order to create a more inviting learning environment, district officials plans to ...
NBC News Provides Cross Network Coverage of EDUCATION NATION, Beg ...
Broadway World
On Monday, September 24 at 3:20PM/ET, renowned news anchor Jose Diaz-Balart will moderate a panel with education experts touching upon topics such as blended learning, technology andcharter schools which will be available via web stream at ...
Ad slams Idaho school reform laws
The Spokesman Review
3 replaces teachers with computers by requiring that taxpayers fund laptops for high schoolstudents. The Legislature failed to fully fund the laptops required by Prop. 3, so our property taxes could increase.” Showing a youngster knocking over a can ...
Grand Island Senior High iPad rollout starts Friday
Grand Island Independent
Josh McDowell, director of 21st Century Learning at Senior High, said that will give teachers a head start on students when it comes to knowing how to use their iPads. He said during Phase Two, 1,050 iPads will be distributed to students in four ...
Don't shy away from reforming Chicago schools
Chicago Tribune
Education reformers and teachers too often talked past one another. They need to see ... Though the academic success of students benefiting from a longer day has been plain to see, giving all students a full day of learning has been difficult to ...
Inside information: What local teachers think about their schools
Burlington Times News
That's according to the results of a statewide survey given every two years to measure what concernsteachers have and what they think their schools, school systems and the state's public educationsystem are doing well. Forty-eight percent of teachers ...
Inaugural Class of Five Outstanding High School Students Appointed as ...
U.S. Politics Today
I believe that what you learn while reading and writing poetry will stay with you for the rest of your life, and I sincerely hope you continue to use your creativity and imagination throughout your term as literary ambassador and beyond." ... The ...
Long Beach Author Makes Learning Grammar Fun, Easy
Gazette Newspapers
Blaming it on today's digital world of texting and instant social media, Baranick decided it was time to intervene. She released her ... Baranick will be signing copies of her book from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. on Oct. 14 at Apostrophe Books, at 4712 E ...
National Standards: Which Children and Schools will be Hurt?
Scoop.co.nz
... Learners'. They too will include many children with specific learning difficulties (around 25% of children with a disability live in benefit-dependent homes). ... But with little policing of schoolprocesses (including those that go much wider than ...
Foley sophomore Tony Heath, 13, youngest student to ever enroll at Faulkner State
al.com (blog)
To accommodate his math needs, the school's staff made arrangements for him to take an online geometry class through Troy University's ACCESS Distance Learningprogram. Tony completed seventh- and eighth-grade classwork in one year and moved on ...
al.com (blog)
Education Notes: Riley chosen for master's program at Texas A&M's Bush School
Newnan Times-Herald
Mary-Christina Riley has been admitted to the Master of Public Service and Administration (MPSA) degree program at Texas A&M University's Bush School of Government and Public Service in College Station, Texas. Riley, daughter of ... All high school ...
Into the cloud
North Shore News
For the past two years, the West Vancouver school district has pioneered an approach to learningabout the online world designed to help kids navigate the digital space they occupy. A key part of the project involves linking all students in grades 4 to ...
District's Technology Focus Group Meets, Borgia Students Give Presentations on ...
The Missourian
“We spent a lot of time listening and learning, and asking questions so we can build our knowledge base with regard to technology,” VanLeer told The Missourian. Two students from St. Francis Borgia Regional High School, which became the first all iPad ...
My teachers, my heroes within
Manila Standard Today
During summer, she was persistent in her studies at the Teachers' Camp in Baguio City until she earned her MA in teaching elementary agriculture. When she died at the age 96, she was directress of her own pre-school, Haven Learning Center—a teacher to ...
Why CIOs Desperately Need a Technology-Literate Society
Wall Street Journal (blog)
They are not even taking STEM courses in school — be it high school, post-secondary educationor college. As a result, their skills don't match those needed for the jobs that are most in demand. ...Larson, a professor of Engineering Systems and Civil ...
Online may be the future of higher ed
Lansing State Journal
Taught online, typically free and, in some cases, enrolling more than 100,000 students in a single class, MOOCs have been invoked as the solution to crippling tuition costs, a means for millions tolearn from the world's best professors, a “digital ...
What's happening this week
Online Athens
The Boomers: Reflecting, Sharing, Learning: “Bird Dawgs”: 12:30 p.m., Lyndon House Arts Center, 293 Hoyt St.; the program will include local birding hot spots, how to attract birds to your backyard, and how to identify birds by both sight and sound ...
Skating solutions to boys' education
Eureka Street
IT has created possibilities for online learning. Many schools are experimenting with virtual classrooms. It's not flaky speculation or science fiction anymore but schools, teachers, and parents might have to get over the idea that kids can only learn ...
Mid-Columbia school districts seek unity on uniforms
Mid Columbia Tri City Herald
Prosser School District officials still are a long way from a decision. It is taking measured steps to determine whether students will be required to wear a uniform, partially to makes sure students, parents and teachers all have their voices heard on...
Mid Columbia Tri City Herald
Get your geek on
Juneau Empire
(He asked) “Why don't you go to school and get your graduate degree in education?” and I said, “Nah, I don't want to do that.” But he finally convinced me, so one day I just quit my job and entered graduate school. I got most of my way through a PhD ...
Award-winning Mike Baker, journalist with the BBC, has died (Video)
Examiner.com
This Education Journalist presented several series of programs on Teachers TV (a British website and former free-to-air Distance education, or learning, television channel). Baker's publications include Who Rules Our Schools and A Parents' Guide to the ...
Innosight Institute » online learning
For those who have been working to personalize learning through digital learning in the field, this endorsement and what it means for online and blended ...
www.innosightinstitute.org/tag/online-learning/
Athletes and Online Learning
Athletes and Online Learning ... That is why some parents turn towards an online high schoolprogram to provide their child with the education he needs, even ...
www.theamericanacademy.com/.../Athletes_and_Online_Lear...
New Fall Courses Feature Social Networks, Online Learning ...
University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business. Contact ... New Fall Courses Feature Social Networks, Online Learning, Women in Business. 09/10/ ...
newsroom.haas.berkeley.edu/.../new-fall-courses-feature-social...
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