Scope (blog)
A piece published yesterday in Inside Stanford Medicine takes a closer look at the efforts of a core group of Stanford professors, education technology specialists and collaborators from the Khan Academy to develop a new online learning initiative to...
Scope (blog)
DCE blends online, classroom learning
Wausau Daily Herald
Instructor Travis Greil, left, works with a junior Mariah Shidell on Tuesday after school in Greil's classroom at D.C. Everest Senior High School in Weston. / T'xer Zhon Kha/Wausau Daily Herald ...Blended learning is one of the hottest trends in ...
Digital Learning Now! Releases Second Paper in Smart Series: "Data ...
Sacramento Bee
This will in turn equip and enable teachers to provide a more focused, personalized learning experience for each student from day one," said Jeb Bush, former Florida governor and chairman of the Foundation for Excellence in Education. ... The series ...
Visalia Charter Independent Study's online program expands
Visalia Times-Delta
As online learning continues to be a boon for students looking for alternatives to traditional classroom settings, public schools are quickly familiarizing themselves with the concept of distancelearning. And on Tuesday night, the Visalia Unified ...
Florida Virtual Academy Charter School Approved in Pinellas County
The Herald | HeraldOnline.com
Our school will use Florida-certified teachers, along with innovative curriculum and individualized instruction designed to meet children's unique educational needs. We look forward to collaborating with ... FLVA at Pinellas County will offer flexible ...
Implementing Online Course Requirement Policies for High School Graduation
The Herald | HeraldOnline.com
"Online courses prepare our students for an increasingly digital 21st century world where one in three college students takes an online course and lifelong learning is a necessity. Online courses are a lifeline for many schools to expand access to ...
Walden University Faculty and Staff to Present at Sloan Consortium Conference
Sacramento Bee
"The annual Sloan Consortium conference brings together and engages individuals and highereducation institutions and organizations on topics of online learning," said Dr. Eric Riedel, chief academic officer for Walden University. ... Dr. Maria Minor ...
The first 100 years: Innovation in distance learning
Clay-Times Journal
Furthermore, where a college education was once confined to an elite minority, higher educationtoday is attainable for the majority of Americans. Perhaps the most dramatic impact was made by the emergence of distance learning, which allows students to ...
14 Open Resources For High School
Education Week News (blog)
We agree, it's time to shift to digital. High-quality open educational resources (OER) help make the case. Digital learning advocate and co-founder of two online high schools, Robyn Bagley, recently asked, "What are some good open high school courses?
Bee'ah School of Environment set to Enhance its online school portal for ...
AME Info
"Online communication has been a vital part of our society, and by remodelling the website by incorporating education with social interaction between teachers, students and parents, we expect to see a major positive change towards the environmental way...
AME Info
Danbury May Allow 'Net Classes For High School
The Daily Voice
The Danbury Board of Education is considering adding language, under a new rule on the requirements for high school graduation, that stipulates that Danbury High School would acceptonline learning requests from students if the online classes are from ...
FORTIS Online Launches Mobile App That Brings Interactive Learning To ...
Sacramento Bee
The mobile app was developed by Blackboard Mobile, a division of education technology company Blackboard Inc. Blackboard Mobile partners with institutions to provide innovative mobile solutions that enrich teaching. learning, and life outside the ...
UW Lab School Yearbooks Accessible Online
University of Wyoming News
“These yearbooks are rich with images not only of students, but also of old images of UW and the campus,” says Cass Kvenild, librarian at the Lab School's Learning Resource Center. “Local history buffs will find much to enjoy in the yearbooks, with ...
University of Wyoming News
Utah legislators urge teachers to stop shunning technology
Salt Lake Tribune
Instead of studying multiple courses at once, she takes them one by one. She uses online courses in a classroom setting, with individualized assistance from teachers, to help her whiz through her course materials. ... and we need to move there much ...
Sylvan Learning looking to expand Central Pa. presence
Central Penn Business Journal
Sylvan Learning Inc., the Baltimore, Md.-based provider of in-center and online tutoring for pre-K through 12th-graders, is looking to expand its midstate presence with the help of a digital learningsystem. The company last October launched SylvanSync ...
Mariners Learning System offers new online courses
Trade Only Today
Mariners Learning System, a provider of online captain's license education courses, released a new line of courseware it calls "Captain in a Box." In addition to online access to interactive software, the product provides students with materials that ...
Evaluating Virtual Schooling in Texas and Nationally-Senate Hearing Gathers ...
Burnt Orange Report
... are not offered by online operators. Dr. Luis Huerta of Columbia University's Teachers College expanded on these themes. ... Their enthusiasm was more for the "blended" approach that combines online with face-to-face instruction in traditional or ...
Salmi to head "online classroom" creativeLIVE
The Seattle Times (blog)
Seattle's creativeLIVE.com is raising its profile in the growing market for online learning programs, raising $7.5 million and hiring noted digital media veteran Mika Salmi as chief executive. The 28-person company offers an online "interactive social ...
Perdido Middle School students take online Spanish course
Atmore News
Eighth-grade students at Perdido Middle School have the opportunity to be involved in an unique learning experience this year, thanks in part to technology. Interested eighth- graders were able to sign up to take Spanish I (yes, they will get high ...
Atmore News
More Student Data Would Inform Teaching, Report Says
Education Week News (blog)
Most teachers know little about the students they receive at the start of the school year, the report says, which prevents them from being able to personalize learning for students from the first day ofschool. To help teachers keep better track of ...
EverFi Presents Universal Authentication Solution At The White House ...
IT News Online
EverFi has partnered with Mozilla and North Carolina's Anson County School District to build and deploy a new system that allows students to log on to the EverFi platform and other online education systems using a single login backed by their existing ...
Denver Schools To Accelerate Blended Learning with $2.3 Million Corporate Grant
T.H.E. Journal
The new investment will focus on accelerating use of blended learning models. Blended or hybridlearning combines traditional forms of instruction with digital and online activities. The grant will cover expenses related to software, hardware ...
What's in a Degree?
Huffington Post
The appeal of a college education, and in particular a liberal arts education, wanes as fewer degrees are converted into the jobs students expect. The website UnCollege ... These nontraditional programs all vouch to help students learn by doing ...
Ann Arbor parent group launches online petition: 'Stop testing our children'
AnnArbor.com
The purpose of the petition is to show and express to administrators the level of concern that exists regarding testing within the Ann Arbor Public Schools community, said Ruth Kraut, a parent at Ann Arbor Open and a local education blogger. The ...
TESDA, IT firm launch digital literacy program
Inquirer.net
With the volume of Filipino web users using social media, Intel Philippines and the TechnicalEducation and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) see potential in scaling up the traditionallearning environment to an online platform. Intel, the world ...
Looking at learning outside the classroom
Chatham Daily News
education is changing. If Chatham-Kent wants to stay ahead of the curve, we need to accept this and start adapting now. To do this, I talked with two local "students." These two individuals have gone about their education in non-traditional ways, yet ...
CreativeLIVE scores $7.5M from Greylock for cable TV meets online ed platform
GigaOM
Marrying the quality of cable TV quality with convenience and access of online education, Seattle-based CreativeLIVE has announced that it has raised $7.5 million from Greylock Ventures. The online learning platform offers higher quality video ...
GigaOM
Blending books with technology
Greenville News
With our focus in the school being on problem-based learning, it partners really well with what librarians are supposed to do. It's all project-based, focused on how we ... We have a lot of e-books that the teachers use,” she says. “They still come ...
Hundreds now taking online classes in high schools
So Md News
The program is in partnership with America's Promise Alliance, a nonprofit education reform group founded to decrease the dropout rate and, in turn, improve the graduation rate in the country. St. Mary's was one of four school systems in the nation ...
School's resource site now online
The Robesonian
LUMBERTON — Members of the Public Schools of Robeson school board were introduced Tuesday to a newly developed district online resource site that offers teachers, administrators and parents access to information pertaining to all areas of curriculum ...
How Australian universities can play in the MOOCs market
The Conversation
How Australian universities can play in the MOOCs market. FUTURE OF HIGHER EDUCATION: The rise of online and blended learning and the development of free online courses is set to transform the higher education sector. ... to their previous engagement ...
Educator wants to revolutionize schooling
The Province
As U.S. educator Sal Khan points out, the standard education model of going early to school and sitting through a succession of 40- to 60-minute classes "in which the teachers mainly talk and the students mainly listen" is an anachronism. "It's a ...
Caerphilly pupils' fun learning with Kip McGrath
Caerphilly Observer
Two Caerphilly school girls have been putting their maths skills to the test in a global online competition and have come out on top. Emma Vaughan, 15 and Rebecca Roberts, 12, both attend the Kip McGrath Education Centre in Caerphilly's Castle Court ...
Caerphilly Observer
Challenge: Aligning arts, math curriculum
Herald Times Reporter
The beginning of this school year has been full of new learning experiences, technology and expectations for students and teachers at L.B. Clarke Middle School in Two Rivers. The biggest task has been aligning our English language arts and mathematics ...
Online training course 'improves electoral coverage'
Virtual College
... an online learning course to develop their coverage of the national elections held on Sunday (October 7th). Offered by the Carter Centre's Programme to Strengthen Journalism in Venezuela and the Knight Centre for Journalism in the Americas, the ...
Even Web Classrooms Find Cheating Problematic
Wall Street Journal (blog)
Coursera, a website that hosts online courses for university-level topics like computer science and engineering, has discovered instances of cheating — such as solutions to assignments being posted online — and is now taking steps to mitigate it, co ...
Wall Street Journal (blog)
New approaches to workplace learning
The Guardian (blog)
Bean said: "Open access, part-time study and online learning really go hand in hand with profitable businesses – unlike the more traditional courses, employers start to see the benefits of that learning from day one. ... But its head of corporate ...
The Guardian (blog)
Sheikh Nahyan opens International Education Show, The Edutainment Show
MENAFN.COM
The shows were opened by Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan, Minister of HigherEducation and Scientific Research, on October 10, 2012, in the presence of Ms. Khawla Al Mulla, Assistant Undersecretary for Activities and School Environment Policy, Mr ...
MENAFN.COM
Special Education Concerns Emerge With Online Learning ...
By Michelle Diament
Those behind the effort say they want stakeholders including parents, teachers and policymakers to be aware when they choose or recommend online learning for students with disabilities. What's more, they are hoping to spur more research ...
Disability Scoop
For the Love of Online Learning | School of Arts & Sciences
For the Love of Online Learning ... YouTube · Twitter · iTunesU. Copyright © 2012 ; Trustees of the. University of Pennsylvania; School of Arts & Sciences; Contact.
https://www.sas.upenn.edu/60second/.../love-online-learning
Financial Times holds global Digital Learning Week for staff | About ...
This week the Financial Times will hold its inaugural Digital Learning Week (DLW ) for staff, hosting presentations, panel discussions, masterclasses and online ...
aboutus.ft.com/.../financial-times-holds-global-digital-learning...
Online Education Schools & Colleges – U.S. News University Directory
Get the most trusted online college rankings from U.S. News & World Report! Online education – also called distance education, distance learning or e- learning ...
www.usnewsuniversitydirectory.com/online.../default.aspx
Snapshot: Online Learning in Ohio
Snapshot: Online Learning in Ohio. More than 30,000 Ohio students currently attend schoolonline, according to a report released by the Evergreen Education ...
www.publicschooloptions.org/.../snapshot-online-learning-in-...
Self-Teaching: Are online learning resources like Udacity, Coursera ...
I am learning computer science on my own, i learn programming from reading a lot of books, now I am going to start learning about web, there are more courses ...
www.quora.com/.../Are-online-learning-resources-like-Udacit...
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Sacramento Bee
This will in turn equip and enable teachers to provide a more focused, personalized learning experience for each student from day one," said Jeb Bush, former Florida governor and chairman of the Foundation for Excellence in Education. ... The series ...
Visalia Charter Independent Study's online program expands
Visalia Times-Delta
As online learning continues to be a boon for students looking for alternatives to traditional classroom settings, public schools are quickly familiarizing themselves with the concept of distancelearning. And on Tuesday night, the Visalia Unified ...
Florida Virtual Academy Charter School Approved in Pinellas County
The Herald | HeraldOnline.com
Our school will use Florida-certified teachers, along with innovative curriculum and individualized instruction designed to meet children's unique educational needs. We look forward to collaborating with ... FLVA at Pinellas County will offer flexible ...
Implementing Online Course Requirement Policies for High School Graduation
The Herald | HeraldOnline.com
"Online courses prepare our students for an increasingly digital 21st century world where one in three college students takes an online course and lifelong learning is a necessity. Online courses are a lifeline for many schools to expand access to ...
Walden University Faculty and Staff to Present at Sloan Consortium Conference
Sacramento Bee
"The annual Sloan Consortium conference brings together and engages individuals and highereducation institutions and organizations on topics of online learning," said Dr. Eric Riedel, chief academic officer for Walden University. ... Dr. Maria Minor ...
The first 100 years: Innovation in distance learning
Clay-Times Journal
Furthermore, where a college education was once confined to an elite minority, higher educationtoday is attainable for the majority of Americans. Perhaps the most dramatic impact was made by the emergence of distance learning, which allows students to ...
14 Open Resources For High School
Education Week News (blog)
We agree, it's time to shift to digital. High-quality open educational resources (OER) help make the case. Digital learning advocate and co-founder of two online high schools, Robyn Bagley, recently asked, "What are some good open high school courses?
Bee'ah School of Environment set to Enhance its online school portal for ...
AME Info
"Online communication has been a vital part of our society, and by remodelling the website by incorporating education with social interaction between teachers, students and parents, we expect to see a major positive change towards the environmental way...
AME Info
Danbury May Allow 'Net Classes For High School
The Daily Voice
The Danbury Board of Education is considering adding language, under a new rule on the requirements for high school graduation, that stipulates that Danbury High School would acceptonline learning requests from students if the online classes are from ...
FORTIS Online Launches Mobile App That Brings Interactive Learning To ...
Sacramento Bee
The mobile app was developed by Blackboard Mobile, a division of education technology company Blackboard Inc. Blackboard Mobile partners with institutions to provide innovative mobile solutions that enrich teaching. learning, and life outside the ...
UW Lab School Yearbooks Accessible Online
University of Wyoming News
“These yearbooks are rich with images not only of students, but also of old images of UW and the campus,” says Cass Kvenild, librarian at the Lab School's Learning Resource Center. “Local history buffs will find much to enjoy in the yearbooks, with ...
University of Wyoming News
Utah legislators urge teachers to stop shunning technology
Salt Lake Tribune
Instead of studying multiple courses at once, she takes them one by one. She uses online courses in a classroom setting, with individualized assistance from teachers, to help her whiz through her course materials. ... and we need to move there much ...
Sylvan Learning looking to expand Central Pa. presence
Central Penn Business Journal
Sylvan Learning Inc., the Baltimore, Md.-based provider of in-center and online tutoring for pre-K through 12th-graders, is looking to expand its midstate presence with the help of a digital learningsystem. The company last October launched SylvanSync ...
Mariners Learning System offers new online courses
Trade Only Today
Mariners Learning System, a provider of online captain's license education courses, released a new line of courseware it calls "Captain in a Box." In addition to online access to interactive software, the product provides students with materials that ...
Evaluating Virtual Schooling in Texas and Nationally-Senate Hearing Gathers ...
Burnt Orange Report
... are not offered by online operators. Dr. Luis Huerta of Columbia University's Teachers College expanded on these themes. ... Their enthusiasm was more for the "blended" approach that combines online with face-to-face instruction in traditional or ...
Salmi to head "online classroom" creativeLIVE
The Seattle Times (blog)
Seattle's creativeLIVE.com is raising its profile in the growing market for online learning programs, raising $7.5 million and hiring noted digital media veteran Mika Salmi as chief executive. The 28-person company offers an online "interactive social ...
Perdido Middle School students take online Spanish course
Atmore News
Eighth-grade students at Perdido Middle School have the opportunity to be involved in an unique learning experience this year, thanks in part to technology. Interested eighth- graders were able to sign up to take Spanish I (yes, they will get high ...
Atmore News
More Student Data Would Inform Teaching, Report Says
Education Week News (blog)
Most teachers know little about the students they receive at the start of the school year, the report says, which prevents them from being able to personalize learning for students from the first day ofschool. To help teachers keep better track of ...
EverFi Presents Universal Authentication Solution At The White House ...
IT News Online
EverFi has partnered with Mozilla and North Carolina's Anson County School District to build and deploy a new system that allows students to log on to the EverFi platform and other online education systems using a single login backed by their existing ...
Denver Schools To Accelerate Blended Learning with $2.3 Million Corporate Grant
T.H.E. Journal
The new investment will focus on accelerating use of blended learning models. Blended or hybridlearning combines traditional forms of instruction with digital and online activities. The grant will cover expenses related to software, hardware ...
What's in a Degree?
Huffington Post
The appeal of a college education, and in particular a liberal arts education, wanes as fewer degrees are converted into the jobs students expect. The website UnCollege ... These nontraditional programs all vouch to help students learn by doing ...
Ann Arbor parent group launches online petition: 'Stop testing our children'
AnnArbor.com
The purpose of the petition is to show and express to administrators the level of concern that exists regarding testing within the Ann Arbor Public Schools community, said Ruth Kraut, a parent at Ann Arbor Open and a local education blogger. The ...
TESDA, IT firm launch digital literacy program
Inquirer.net
With the volume of Filipino web users using social media, Intel Philippines and the TechnicalEducation and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) see potential in scaling up the traditionallearning environment to an online platform. Intel, the world ...
Looking at learning outside the classroom
Chatham Daily News
education is changing. If Chatham-Kent wants to stay ahead of the curve, we need to accept this and start adapting now. To do this, I talked with two local "students." These two individuals have gone about their education in non-traditional ways, yet ...
CreativeLIVE scores $7.5M from Greylock for cable TV meets online ed platform
GigaOM
Marrying the quality of cable TV quality with convenience and access of online education, Seattle-based CreativeLIVE has announced that it has raised $7.5 million from Greylock Ventures. The online learning platform offers higher quality video ...
GigaOM
Blending books with technology
Greenville News
With our focus in the school being on problem-based learning, it partners really well with what librarians are supposed to do. It's all project-based, focused on how we ... We have a lot of e-books that the teachers use,” she says. “They still come ...
Hundreds now taking online classes in high schools
So Md News
The program is in partnership with America's Promise Alliance, a nonprofit education reform group founded to decrease the dropout rate and, in turn, improve the graduation rate in the country. St. Mary's was one of four school systems in the nation ...
School's resource site now online
The Robesonian
LUMBERTON — Members of the Public Schools of Robeson school board were introduced Tuesday to a newly developed district online resource site that offers teachers, administrators and parents access to information pertaining to all areas of curriculum ...
How Australian universities can play in the MOOCs market
The Conversation
How Australian universities can play in the MOOCs market. FUTURE OF HIGHER EDUCATION: The rise of online and blended learning and the development of free online courses is set to transform the higher education sector. ... to their previous engagement ...
Educator wants to revolutionize schooling
The Province
As U.S. educator Sal Khan points out, the standard education model of going early to school and sitting through a succession of 40- to 60-minute classes "in which the teachers mainly talk and the students mainly listen" is an anachronism. "It's a ...
Caerphilly pupils' fun learning with Kip McGrath
Caerphilly Observer
Two Caerphilly school girls have been putting their maths skills to the test in a global online competition and have come out on top. Emma Vaughan, 15 and Rebecca Roberts, 12, both attend the Kip McGrath Education Centre in Caerphilly's Castle Court ...
Caerphilly Observer
Challenge: Aligning arts, math curriculum
Herald Times Reporter
The beginning of this school year has been full of new learning experiences, technology and expectations for students and teachers at L.B. Clarke Middle School in Two Rivers. The biggest task has been aligning our English language arts and mathematics ...
Online training course 'improves electoral coverage'
Virtual College
... an online learning course to develop their coverage of the national elections held on Sunday (October 7th). Offered by the Carter Centre's Programme to Strengthen Journalism in Venezuela and the Knight Centre for Journalism in the Americas, the ...
Even Web Classrooms Find Cheating Problematic
Wall Street Journal (blog)
Coursera, a website that hosts online courses for university-level topics like computer science and engineering, has discovered instances of cheating — such as solutions to assignments being posted online — and is now taking steps to mitigate it, co ...
Wall Street Journal (blog)
New approaches to workplace learning
The Guardian (blog)
Bean said: "Open access, part-time study and online learning really go hand in hand with profitable businesses – unlike the more traditional courses, employers start to see the benefits of that learning from day one. ... But its head of corporate ...
The Guardian (blog)
Sheikh Nahyan opens International Education Show, The Edutainment Show
MENAFN.COM
The shows were opened by Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan, Minister of HigherEducation and Scientific Research, on October 10, 2012, in the presence of Ms. Khawla Al Mulla, Assistant Undersecretary for Activities and School Environment Policy, Mr ...
MENAFN.COM
Special Education Concerns Emerge With Online Learning ...
By Michelle Diament
Those behind the effort say they want stakeholders including parents, teachers and policymakers to be aware when they choose or recommend online learning for students with disabilities. What's more, they are hoping to spur more research ...
Disability Scoop
For the Love of Online Learning | School of Arts & Sciences
For the Love of Online Learning ... YouTube · Twitter · iTunesU. Copyright © 2012 ; Trustees of the. University of Pennsylvania; School of Arts & Sciences; Contact.
https://www.sas.upenn.edu/60second/.../love-online-learning
Financial Times holds global Digital Learning Week for staff | About ...
This week the Financial Times will hold its inaugural Digital Learning Week (DLW ) for staff, hosting presentations, panel discussions, masterclasses and online ...
aboutus.ft.com/.../financial-times-holds-global-digital-learning...
Online Education Schools & Colleges – U.S. News University Directory
Get the most trusted online college rankings from U.S. News & World Report! Online education – also called distance education, distance learning or e- learning ...
www.usnewsuniversitydirectory.com/online.../default.aspx
Snapshot: Online Learning in Ohio
Snapshot: Online Learning in Ohio. More than 30,000 Ohio students currently attend schoolonline, according to a report released by the Evergreen Education ...
www.publicschooloptions.org/.../snapshot-online-learning-in-...
Self-Teaching: Are online learning resources like Udacity, Coursera ...
I am learning computer science on my own, i learn programming from reading a lot of books, now I am going to start learning about web, there are more courses ...
www.quora.com/.../Are-online-learning-resources-like-Udacit...
Follow @eSummaCom
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