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Online learning calls for new set of skills

Online learning calls for new set of skills
The Age
UNIVERSITY teaching staff are ill-prepared for the challenges of the online world that higher education is fast becoming, partly because the necessary time and effort to prepare and support them has not yet been invested. The Horizon Report 2012 Higher...

The Age

Charter school companies, online learning outfits try to wield influence in ...
Tampabay.com
In the current election cycle, charter school companies, school management firms, online learning outfits and for-profit colleges have lavished more than $1.8 million to statehouse candidates, electioneering organizations and political parties ...

MOOC Brigade: What I Learned From Learning Online
TIME
TIME's cover package this week is on reinventing college in general and specifically on whether a new breed of online megacourses can finally offer higher education to more people for less money. That story dives deep into Udacity, which was co-f0unded ...

TIME

Learning any time, any place, at any pace
Napa Valley Register
Digital learning in the 21st century means far more than personal computers in the classroom. After much deliberation, education leaders and public officials are developing policy initiatives around broadband access, online textbooks, e-learning and ...

The UO's battle to have a place in online education
Oregon Daily Emerald
Since 1991, Professor Cathleen Leue has been working in this lab, quietly running and developing the University of Oregon's distance education courses and online testing. It may not be quiet for ... Digital courses have gone from unorthodox to ...

Oregon Daily Emerald

Online examination forms for School of Open Learning students
Times of India
After the approval of online admissions earlier this year, the School of Open Learning (SOL), DU, has created a new examination framework under which students of SOL filled in the examination forms online for the first time. "Earlier, students could ...

Niesbud to promote e-learning initiative
Business Standard
The National Institute for Entrepreneurship and Small Business Development (Niesbud) has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Sun Online Learning India Pvt Ltd for promoting an e-learning initiative developed by the company, according ...

Clever raises $3M from SV Angel, Google Ventures, others to bring online ...
The Next Web
Bringing the Internet into the classroom to facilitate learning has gotten a little bit easier thanks to Clever. And today, the company is announcing that it has raised $3 million in seed funding from top investors both in Silicon Valley and in the ...

The Next Web

Ga. Southern professor presented prestigious award
Thecoastalsource
Oct. 22, 2012 – Georgia Southern University College of Education Assistant Professor of Instructional Technology, Kathryn Kennedy, Ph.D., has been named the winner of the 2012 Outstanding Research in K-12 Online Learning Award. Kennedy along with ...

Can Digital Learning Transform Education? : Education Next
The enthusiasm for digital learning is contagious. More than 2 million K‒12 students are enrolled inonline courses today, and research firm Ambient Insight ...
educationnext.org/can-digital-learning-transform-education/

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