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Exploring credits for free online courses

Exploring credits for free online courses
Washington Post
The American Council on Education, which represents university presidents, said Tuesday it is teaming with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the free online education provider Courseraon an initiative to seek answers to those questions. The ...

Britannica Launches Online Information Solution for Classrooms
Sacramento Bee
13, 2012 -- /PRNewswire/ -- Britannica Digital Learning today announced a comprehensive newonline information solution designed for classrooms in grades preK-12. Entitled Britannica School, it provides rich multimedia resources for lessons and lesson ...

The Walker School Turns to Comcast Business Class Ethernet to Power ...
Equities.com
With more than 1,000 students, 180 faculty and staff, and 400 computers for accessing the Internet,educational applications and online resources, The Walker School had seen a significant increase in data traffic on its network. ... Ethernet was the ...

OnCourse Learning buys San Diego online training firm
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
In its second acquisition of 2012, Waukesha-based OnCourse Learning Co. has purchased DigitalUniversity, an online bank and credit union regulatory compliance training firm. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Digital University, which is based in ...

OnCourse Learning acquires Digital University
Bizjournals.com
OnCourse Learning Co. said Monday it is buying Digital University, the company's second acquisition of the year. Waukesha-based OnCourse Learning adds to its training portfolio the San Diego-based online bank and credit union regulatory compliance ...

CYBER-CHARTERS: Luring cyber students back
Lancaster Newspapers
Trouble with other students led Jonathan Kennedy to leave middle school and enroll in a cyber-charter program. For four ... "That's seven teachers. That's a lot of money." When it comes to competing with cyber-charters, Hollister and other local ...

How Education Measures Fared in the Election
Heritage.org (blog)
Washington State passed a law to allow charter schools. As one of only nine states ... Had California's law passed, teachers' hard-earned dollars would have been protected from support of political positions with which they may not agree and that often ...

Kratos to Develop Online Training Courses for Naval Chaplain School; Dan ...
ExecutiveBiz (blog)
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions has won a $1.5 million contract from the U.S. Naval Education and Training Command to provide four new distance learning courses to aid in the career development of Navy chaplains and religious programs specialists, ...

Learning Annex Founder Declares The Era of the Micro-Consultant
Forbes
In this respect, the Learning Annex seems to be an extreme exception to the rule. Thirty years before organizations like Skillshare, Coursera and MIT Open University started to settle the Open Education frontier, Learning Annex Founder Bill Zanker ...

Forbes

Indian present launches Amrita University e-learning upgrades
Virtual College
An audience of more than 14,000 educators watched from 240 remote learning centres via their own models and were able to witness how online education works on the device, which reportedly comes with a higher processor speed and better battery life. Any ...

ALCTS Midwinter Symposium: Libraries and Online Learning | ALA ...
*Speaker:* Karl Nelson, Director of the Digital Learning Department, Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction, State of Washington. *Title:* Online learning in ...

Higher Education: Time to Cut the Cord, Bryan Caplan | EconLog ...
By Bryan Caplan
Should government withdraw from an active role in promoting and subsidizing higher education? I recently debated Pulitzer Prize winner Steve Pearlstein on this very question. Here's the debate resource page, including full audio.
EconLog: Library of Economics...



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