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Should Online Education be Free?
U.S. News & World Report (blog)
However, the significance of online learning is now becoming apparent with the adoption of onlinecourses by leading colleges around the world. Online education was not taken all that seriously before, and any student wishing to gain a higher education ...

Macmillan Digital Education Acquires Maths Doctor to Enter UK E-tutoring Market
The Herald | HeraldOnline.com
Macmillan Digital Education has made its first significant play for e-tutoring in the UK with the acquisition of Maths Doctor - a British award-winning e-learning business that is run by qualifiedteachers. The deal bolsters Macmillan Digital Education ...

Harvard EdX Enrolls Near 100000 Students for Free Online Classes
College Classes
For those who are not familiar with this program, Harvard University set out to change the course of online learning this summer with the formation of quite an interesting coalition with many of the top colleges and universities in the United States ...

College Classes

Udemy Rolls Out New Publishing Platform To Helps Teachers Create Quality ...
TechCrunch
Online video education is a hot space right now, thanks to the likes of Khan Academy, Coursera, Udacity, StraighterLine, Lynda.com, CreativeLIVE (and many more), which are collectively on a mission to democratize education and bring affordable, online ...

Online learning will change universities by degrees
Fraser Coast Chronicle
These fears about online learning and recognising their potential have been around for a while, but have reignited since we added "massive" and "open" to online learning. When enrolments started to be measured in the tens of thousands and the courses ...

College Explores Online Education Opportunities
Amherststudent
Over the past few weeks, faculty and members of the administration have been in discussion with several consortia of colleges and universities wishing to include the College in their onlinecourseware programs, including Coursera, a consortium founded ...

$25 million gift to make Bay Area center for blending online instruction into ...
EdSource Today
The scion of the Gap, Inc. fortune has jumpstarted a $25 million fund with the goal of turning the Bay Area into a national hub for blended learning, the promising schoolmodel that combines individualized online learning and face-to-face classroom ...

EdSource Today

Charter school planned for Calvert Road site
Diamondback Online
“The Calvert Road School will serve as a nucleus for the College Park Academy to expand,” said Revenaugh, a technical assistant involved with the blended learning aspect of the charter school. The partnership between the ... Rather than practicing ...

Pearson makes $650m digital learning buy
CITY A.M.
PEARSON yesterday announced a $650m (£403m) buy-out of online education firm EmbanetCompass, in a move that signals Pearson's increasing emphasis on digital publishing and education. The acquisition is Pearson's largest since it spent $950m on ...

10 Strategies to Promote Deeper Learning
Education Week News (blog)
New adaptive technology can extend the reach of all teachers by targeting learning levels and building basic skills--that prepares students to engage in higher order learning experiences and gives teachers time to focus on deeper learning. ... With the ...

Cambridge Lakes Charter School plans Family Speaker Series
Northwest Herald
PINGREE GROVE – Cambridge Lakes Charter School will host a Family Speaker Series of informative sessions on education, health and safety. All six sessions will be in the Red Kiva of thelearning center of the school, 900 Wester Blvd., Pingree Grove ...

Fraudulent Educational Reform in America
Center for Research on Globalization
The history of education in America makes this transparently clear. Even the Puritans had ways of teaching their children, but the first normal school, a school to train students to be teachers, didn't come into being until 1839, less than two ...

Teachers can take advantage of online Jewish educational resources
Jewish Community Voice
The Jewish Education and Identity website run by the Jewish Federation of Columbus, OH, (jedicolumbus.org) has a page of “Hints, Tips, Games and Lesson Plans” (http://bit.ly/ VOG2Yu) that include materials ready for teachers to download and adapt for ...

Online academy takes learning beyond school day
Hamilton Journal News (subscription)
An online school is expanding Hamilton students' technology knowledge and helping teachersprovide more specific remediation. Riverview Elementary School students in Becca Ware's technology class begin their day with self-guided videos and quizzes from ...

Cengage Learning to Provide Book Content and Pedagogy through edX's Not ...
MarketWatch (press release)
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Oct 17, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- EdX, the not-for-profit online learningventure founded by Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), today announced its collaboration with Cengage Learning, a leading ...

First University System Joins edX Platform
Government Technology
One of these task forces looked into blended and online learning. As a result of its research, blended and online learning made it into the chancellor's framework, and the Institute for Transformational Learning was created. "Higher education is at a ...

Government Technology

MEA proposes rebooting schools by expanding preschool, dual enrollment ...
Michigan Business Review - MLive.com
Teachers union leaders are calling for creating a preschool through community college system, expanded use of blended learning and year-round programs for at-risk students as part of a plan to reboot Michigan's school funding system. The Michigan...

Michigan Business Review - MLive.com

Dreambox Learning CEO Jessie Woolley-Wilson Appointed to the International ...
MarketWatch (press release)
The iNACOL organization represents a diverse cross-section of K-12 educators from school districts,charter schools, state education agencies, non-profit organizations, colleges, universities and research institutions and other content and technology ...

Online instruction is still developing
Atlanticville
Richard Novak, associate vice president for continuing studies and distance learning at Rutgers University, said hybrid courses, which infuse online and face-toface components, will become a dominant force in higher education. “I think that is probably ...

Online courses pursued by undergrads, grad students
Tri-Town News
Distance learning programs enable undergraduate and graduate students to earn college credits, and sometimes full degrees, through the Internet. Online courses allow participants to work when and from where is most convenient for the individual ...

Group helps students learn to stand up to bullying
Baltimore Sun
Through a series of family nights at local libraries, Howard County students are learning the difference between being a bystander and an "upstander" when it comes to bullying, and learning the power of one. One Howard County, a digital safety ...
 
Baltimore Sun

Huntsville school officials not surprised that digital texts could become ...
al.com (blog)
A parent uses his child's school district-issued laptop to learn about the district'sDigital 1:1 Initiative Sept. 18 at Huntsville High School. (The Huntsville Times). HUNTSVILLE, Alabama -- Education Secretary Arne Duncan is urging school districts...

al.com (blog)

Creative learning on display with Tech-Now
Sequoyah County Times
Posted: Wednesday, October 17, 2012 11:29 am. Creative learning on display with Tech-Now. Posted on October 17, 2012. eric. by Eric Viccaro. Sallisaw High School received a $25,000 Perkins Reserve Fund Supplemental Grant to begin offering the Tech-Now ...

Free online textbooks for students
News Talk Sports AM 1150
Robert Campbell, Associate Professor of Educational Technology and Digital Learning at UBC-Okanagan, thinks the move is great idea. "Having free knowledge and and free information for students is a great thing. I think knowledge should be like water, ...

Learning Goes Hi-Tech
Express Computer
However, the changes that technology has introduced to education over the years are so powerful that the Chairman of Microsoft might be prompted to rephrase his comment today. Technology has taken a place that equals the role of the teacher in the West ...

New Ed-Tech Policy Database Unveiled
Education Week News (blog)
... the realm of educational technology. The State Education Policy Center, or SEPC, as SETDA is calling it, will focus initially on the development of policies and practices in three key areas: broadband Internet access; online assessment; and digital ...

Bretford® Focuses on Agile Learning at NeoCon East 2012
EON: Enhanced Online News (press release)
CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Bretford Manufacturing, Inc. (NeoCon East Booth #2643), a United States manufacturer of dependable furniture products that improve how people work and learn, will focus on agile learning in the education and government ...

School Districts Comparison Shop for Teacher Evaluation Systems
NJ Spotlight
That model is a central part of the new tenure law enacted this summer, one that revamps when and how teachers receive tenure and requires districts to use an evaluation system that will accurately measure teacher performance. One of the options for ...

Amazon makes big Kindle push in US schools
Reuters
Education is a potentially huge market for tablets and e-readers, partly because they are easier for administrators to manage than personal computers and laptops, according to Carl Howe of consulting firm Yankee Group. ... Students who are learning to ...

Google awards grant to bolster STEM education in California
89.3 KPCC (blog)
Chris Roe, CEO of the California STEM Learning Network, said he learned about the award “a few days ago.” Roe said the initiative will support new science and math elementary teachers in STEM through an online professional learning community. Enrolled ...

89.3 KPCC (blog)

Digital Learning Sparks Debate over the Pace of ... - Education Next
In a forum released today by Education Next, Chester E. Finn, Jr. and Michael B. Horn discuss the question of whether technology will be powerful and attractive enough to change long-standing tradition, or whether we first must alter a host of ... Digital learning offers the potential for more cost-effective use of taxpayer funds for education, Finn observes, as the influence of good teachers can grow exponentially through technology, and students can customize the learning process to fit ...
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Colorado District Celebrates New Blended Learning Facility ...
By Falcon School District 49
... learning center. A month after Falcon Virtual Academy's new facility was unlocked for students, a ceremony recognized its relevancy in public education. ... Susan Patrick, International Association for K-12 Online Learning president and chief executive officer, discusses educational technology anddigital innovation Oct. 12, during a ceremony at Falcon Virtual Academy in Colorado Springs. Patrick talked about .... last 365 days. Photo: 20 Fun Facebook Cover Images For Teachers ...
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What You Need To Know About Blended Learning. Watch Our Web ...
By mkbnl
Keys to Success in Blended Learning Thursday, October 25, 2012 at 2pm ET Register Combining classroom learning with online education and Web tools is now a proven education model helping schools to improve learning outcomes. Implementing blended learning ... Virtual School Meanderings... Implementing blended learning effectively, however, requires a thorough understanding of both the available tools and the right processes for teachers and students. Join this Web ...
Virtual School Meanderings

Texas: Lower College Costs by Online Education
By Stephen Frank
Texas MOOCs for Credit? Steve Kolowich, Inside Higher Ed, 10/16/12 So far the universities partnering with edX and Coursera on massive open online courses (MOOCs) have focused on the ideal of lowering the barriers to elite courses. But edX's. ... Access to the course would be free and open to everyone, but the universities would charge student enrolled at Texas for the opportunity to redeem their learning for credit.” We do not need more classrooms, we need more electrons and ...
California Political News and Views

Rethinking education: The effect of digital tools | memeburn
By Katharina Scholtz
Whether we are talking about the Khan academy, where one talented man made video tutorials to assist with the maths curriculum and garnered a huge following, or Mentormob, that curates learningpaths for you through online content, there ...
memeburn

Post-secondary institutions jumping into online learning with Coursera
Online Learning News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor ~ University of Illinois at Springfield. « EdX Online Learning: Harvard's New Domain ...
people.uis.edu/rschr1/onlinelearning/?p...it...

UC Online: Digital learning program gaining momentum | Welcome ...
UC Online: Digital learning program gaining momentum. This spring, students enrolling in UCLA professor Susanne Lohmann's popular course on Diversity, ...
link.ucop.edu/.../uc-online-program-for-web-based-learning-g...

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