MOOCs, Online Courses Rethought

Large-scale online courses, hailed as a way to democratize higher education, have so far been plagued by very high attrition rates. . . . [but] even the loudest critics of MOOCs do not expect them to fade away. More likely, they will morph into many different shapes: Already, San Jose State is getting good results using videos from edX, a nonprofit MOOC venture, to supplement some classroom sessions, and edX is producing videos to use in some high school Advanced Placement classes. And Coursera, the largest MOOC company, is experimenting with using its courses, along with a facilitator, in small discussion classes at some United States consulates (source infra)

After Setbacks, Online Courses Are Rethought - NYTimes.com: "Mr. Siemens said what was happening was part of a natural process. “We’re moving from the hype to the implementation,” he said. “It’s exciting to see universities saying, ‘Fine, you woke us up,’ and beginning to grapple with how the Internet can change the university, how it doesn’t have to be all about teaching 25 people in a room. “Now that we have the technology to teach 100,000 students online,” he said, “the next challenge will be scaling creativity, and finding a way that even in a class of 100,000, adaptive learning can give each student a personal experience.”"

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Coursera, K-12 education, online courses for teachers

Coursera makes first foray into K-12 education with online courses for teachers — Tech News and Analysis: "Online learning startup Coursera is partnering with several schools of education, as well as other institutions and museums, to bring professional development courses to K-12 teachers online."

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Coursera partners with Chegg and 5 publishers to give students free textbooks

Coursera leaps another online learning hurdle, partners with Chegg and 5 publishers to give students free textbooks - The Next Web: "The high-quality educational content, as the company puts it, consists of eTextbooks and supplementary materials will be delivered via Chegg’s DRM-protected eReader. The DRM limitation will allow for the content to be offered gratis only during the duration of the course. The list of participating publishers includes Cengage Learning, Macmillan Higher Education, Oxford University Press, Sage, and Wiley. This is the first time these publishers have made a commitment to online education of Coursera’s caliber."

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Coursera to offer MOOCs for teachers

Coursera to offer MOOCs for teachers
Washington Post (blog)
The Washington Post. The online education platform Coursera this week announced a new series of free courses to help elementary and secondary teachers improve their technique, with offerings from teaching experts at premier museums and universities ..." (read more at link above)

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Coursera Makes Case for MOOCs

Coursera Makes Case for MOOCs
Wall Street Journal
Instead, she wants the free Web courses to improve the educational experience for students at cash-strapped public schools and enhance learning for midcareer professionals and those without access to postsecondary education. And she ... Coursera, which ...

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Five Coursera courses get approved by the American Council on Education

Online learning goes official as five Coursera courses get approved by the American Council on Education - The Next Web: "In other words, students who complete select courses on Coursera’s online platform will be able to potentially apply their credit toward a college degree. The word “potentially” is in there because the company can’t guarantee that each college will approve the credit. That being said, more than 2,000 colleges and universities consider ACE CREDIT recommendations in determining the applicability to their course and degree programs, according to Coursera."

For the Internet-Deprived, McDonald's Is Study Hall - WSJ.com: " The Federal Communications Commission assesses a fee averaging $2.50 per household a month on phone bills to pay $4.5 billion a year for building broadband in rural areas and more than $2 billion a year to pay for better connectivity in schools and libraries. The commission says it can make broadband available to all Americans by spending $45 billion over 10 years. Some are wary of deeper government intervention, arguing that many telecommunications companies are already fast expanding broadband access on their own. "Subsidies should really be targeted narrowly to those that need them," said Randolph May, president of the Free State Foundation, a think tank that advocates for lighter telecom regulation. "That's historically not the way we've done it in communications.""

Competence, Excellence, and Innovation in Higher Education | Rightly Understood | Big Think: " . . . So I’ve gotten several emails this morning asking me what I think about this article by Paul J. LeBlanc, the president of Southern New Hampshire University. It’s a plea for accrediting agencies to take seriously competency-based, as opposed to credit-based, higher education. Southern New Hampshire and its offshoot—the College for America—claim to be riding on “the new wave of innovation” that allows college degrees to be offered at very low prices. This “new innovation” will often be delivered by for-profit institutions, which will have the right incentive to get you the product you want most efficiently. The president claims that historians “will likely point to online learning as the disruptive technology platform that radically changed higher education, which had remained largely unchanged since the cathedral schools of medieval Europe -- football, beer pong and food courts notwithstanding.” Anyone who could take that claim seriously knows nearly nothing about what historians have said about higher education so far. . . . "

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Khan Academy, Coursera, edX, and MOOCs Are Changing Education

Salman Khan, Founder of the Khan Academy | MIT Technology Review: "In his new book, The One World School House: Education Reimagined, Salman Khan recalls how, eight years ago, he uploaded his first mathematics tutorial to YouTube. “I had no preconceived notions about how people learned; I was constrained by no orthodoxy regarding the ‘right’ way to do things,” he writes. . . . The rest of the book is an erudite and accessible call to reorganize education. In much of the developed world, Khan writes, schools use a top-down teaching model first developed in Prussia, a Germanic kingdom known for “stiff whiskers, stiff hats, and stiff way of marching in lockstep.” Students must march ahead even if they haven’t understood what came before. Eventually, some stumble and tune out. Khan’s big idea is that using online technology for lessons, quizzes, and constant assessment will create an affordable way to implement a different teaching ideal known as “mastery learning.” Everyone advances at his or her own pace. Don’t try algebra until you know your arithmetic. Spend less time in lectures and more in hands-on problem solving."


Coursera, edX, and MOOCs Are Changing the Online Education Business | MIT Technology Review: "Khan’s simple videos aren’t without their critics, who wonder whether his tutorials really teach math so well. “We agree 100 percent we aren’t going to solve education’s problems,” Khan responds. But he says the point to keep in mind is that technology-wise, “we’re in the top of the first inning.” He’ll be pouring about $10 million a year into making his videos better—already there are embedded exercises and analytics that let teachers track 50 or 100 students at once. Pretty soon, Khan told me, his free stuff “will be as good or better than anything anyone is charging money for.” Digital instruction faces limits. Online, you will never smell a burning resistor or get your hands wet in a biology lab. Yet the economics of distributing instruction over the Web are so favorable that they seem to threaten anyone building a campus or hiring teachers. At edX, Agarwal says, the same three-person team of a professor plus assistants that used to teach analog circuit design to 400 students at MIT now handles 10,000 online and could take a hundred times more."

Daphne Koller, the AI Researcher Who Founded Coursera | MIT Technology Review: "So far, tearing down the paywalls around higher education has been the simple part. What’s more challenging is making online classes like “A History of the World Since 1300” and “Algorithms I” match the quality of their in-person equivalents. That means racing to set up live forums for class discussions, keeping the site from crashing amidst the crush of students, and urgently seeking ways to make classes more interactive and to automate grading as much as possible. Given such technical challenges, it’s not an accident that many of the people behind recent efforts to put college courses online come from computer science labs. Another Stanford researcher, Sebastian Thrun, resigned to create the startup Udacity. At MIT, the former head of the AI department, Anant Agarwal, now runs edX, another of the organizations offering “massive online open courses,” or MOOCs (see “The Crisis in Higher Education”)."


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Coursera Step Toward Monetization - Students Can Earn Verified Certificates

Coursera Takes A Big Step Toward Monetization, Now Lets Students Earn “Verified Certificates” For A Fee | TechCrunch: "Stanford professors Daphne Koller and Andrew Ng launched Coursera last year to give anyone and everyone access to courses from top-tier universities — for free, online. At launch, the startup offered courses from a mere three institutions, but today, things have changed, as Coursera’s platform now hosts over 200 courses from 33 top international and domestic schools and reaches over 2 million students around the globe. It has the makings of a transformational concept, offering content only from the most reputed departments, professors and universities, bringing that experience online and giving the key to the masses. . . . Beyond the fact that Coursera has raised $22 million in venture capital (the same is true of Udacity), MOOC platforms haven’t yet been able to create substantive business models. Perhaps unfair for Coursera, being less than a year from launch, but an oft-voiced concern nonetheless. Meanwhile, beyond Udacity and edX, startups like the open LMS platform, Instructure, and online degree program specialist, 2U, have made legitimate strides into the MOOC space, offering a blend of free, MOOC-style and for-credit courses. Both have partnered with top-tier universities, offer quality content and tech and have succeeded in setting the table for supplementary revenue streams. (“Supplementary” because both created their course networks as extensions of their original businesses — something Coursera doesn’t have the luxury of doing.) . . . "


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Now you can get college credit with Coursera

Now you can get college credit with Coursera
VentureBeat
“A year ago, online education was something people would look askance at, as a not completely respectable form of education,” says Daphne Koller, Stanford professor and co-founder of online education site Coursera.”Now it's something which every ...

VentureBeat

Physical Activity and Digital Learning: Two Peas in a Pod
Forbes
... need when they need it to boost their success—both in that moment and in life. In the future of education, digital learning should be the platform that facilitates each student having a customized learning experience for her distinct learning ...

Free Guide to Online Education Available from U.S. News University Directory
Sacramento Bee
To better serve those interested in online learning, U.S. News University Directory now offers a Guide to Online Education that is available as a free download on the U.S. News University Directory website. The need for a Guide to Online Education ...

Attention Shifts to Blended Learning at Virtual Ed. Conference
Education Week News
While the rise of blended learning has long been on the radar of leaders in virtual education, last week's Virtual School Symposium may have been its unofficial coming-out party. From beginning to end, blended learning—briefly defined as any of a ...

New Innocademy charter school in Zeeland puts focus on small class sizes
HollandSentinel.com
New Innocademy charter school in Zeeland puts focus on small class sizes. Zoom ... All classes are taught by certified teachers online through two online learning programs, Michigan Virtual and Education2020. Everything students learn complies with the ...

Digital Ivy League: Coursera's Mission to Bring the Best Universities Online ...
Knowledge@Wharton
At the same time, digital innovation is providing new options for students -- the classroom is becoming virtual with the advent of relatively inexpensive yet powerful tablet devices and the increased availability of free education online. The leading...

Knowledge@Wharton

Online Learning Brings Democracy In Education
Huffington Post Canada (blog)
The advancements in online learning have meant that more and more high-quality education is available to all Canadians and students around the world. In this article I ... This is bit of a different beast to both UBC Continuing Studies and Coursera ...

Akwa Ibom's e-learning centre gets 35m e-books
The Guardian Nigeria
WITH 35 million electronic books and 40,000 hard copies in its e-library at the newly commissionede-learning centre, the Akwa Ibom State government has expressed its readiness to bridge thedigital divide in Information and Communications Technology ...

To empower students, let's bring interactive learning tools into the classroom
VentureBeat
The past five years have seen a tremendous boom in education technology (“ed-tech”) startups that are pushing the boundaries of online and hybrid content delivery andlearning experiences. ... We're seeing big advances in adaptive learning platforms ...

VentureBeat

Online guru to help develop free courses for University of Alberta
Edmonton Journal
EDMONTON - The groundbreaking Silicon Valley computer scientist who opened up elite Stanford University courses free to the public wants to help create similar buzz around online learning at the University of Alberta. Sebastian Thrun, now a vice ...

Universtiy of Alberta, Udacity Team Up for Online Learning ...
an initiative of the Stanford University Graduate School of Education ... for delivery, measurement and assessment of online learning courses and experiences.
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Schools caught cheating on standardized tests
Los Angeles Times
Times education reporter Howard Blume will join city editor Shelby Grad at 1:30 p.m. for a Google+ hangout about schools the state stripped of their Academic Performance Index ratings for cheating on standardized tests. Some teachers may have thought ...

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Coursera Expands Slate of Universities and Courses

Education Site Expands Slate of Universities and Courses
New York Times
Coursera, a start-up online education company that has enrolled 1.35 million students in its freeonline courses since it began just five months ago, is now more than doubling, to 33, its partners, universities that will offer classes on its platform ...

Log On and Learn: The Promise of Access in Online Education
Forbes
We have to start looking into ways to reduce the cost of higher education. Technology and online learning specifically, if thoughtfully employed, could reduce these costs, and allow our college students to graduate without being shackled to a gross ...

Forbes

Vanderbilt University to offer free courses online through Coursera ...
By Melanie Moran
Vanderbilt University will make its first institution-wide foray into offering worldwide, free, digitalcourses by some of its leading faculty members in spring 2013 via the digital learning consortiumCoursera. “Partnering with Coursera will allow Vanderbilt ... “We set out to make educationaccessible to everyone around the world, and seeing our vision come to life has been an incredible experience,” said Daphne Koller, co-founder of Coursera. “With the addition of the exceptional, forward ...
Vanderbilt News

Virtual School MOOC – Research into K-12 Online Learning ...
By mkbnl
Tags: cyber school, education, high school, massive open online course, MOOC, research, virtual school, vsmooc12. The third topic in Introduction to ... The vast majority of what we know about full-time K-12 online learning has been published or funded by corporations providing full-time K-12 online learning – and that is a problem given that for the last three to four years this is where the greatest growth within the field of K-12 online learning has occurred. Beyond the full-time K-12 ...
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Coursera Announces Big Expansion, Adding 17 Universities ...
By Ray Schroeder
Online Learning News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor ~ University of Illinois at Springfield. « In MOOCs: More is less and less is more (Part 3). Coursera Announces Big Expansion, Adding 17 Universities. by Jeffrey R. Young, ...
Online Learning Update

UBC joins Coursera to offer free online courses « UBC Public Affairs
By Lorraine Chan
Coursera was founded in 2011 by two Stanford University professors to transform teaching andlearning through Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). Partnering with top-tier universities that include Stanford, Princeton and the University ...
UBC Public Affairs

Your Online Ivy: Coursera Now Hosts 200 Courses From 33 Schools ...
By Rip Empson
... hit record lows. Stanford professors Daphne Koller and Andrew Ng launched Coursera earlier this year to fling that door wide open. ... The co-founders created a platform that provides the framework and hosting services for massively open online courses, or MOOCs, to bring, via the Web, an eliteeducation to the public for free. At launch, when there ... But universities see Coursera as an opportunity to experiment online learning and alternative teaching techniques. In the beginning ...
TechCrunch

Top Online Learning Group Awards NYU-Poly's Robert Ubell its Highest ...
The Herald | HeraldOnline.com
Under Ubell, NYU-Poly pioneered robust support systems and procedures for its remote learningstudents and faculty. Ubell steered the growth of e-learning, and he enlisted guidance from world leaders in digital education. Ubell also heads NYU-Poly's ...

Greg Kesich: LePage administration shows soft spot for online learning companies
Press Herald
2, Maine Sunday Telegram staff writer Colin Woodard wrote a meaty account of how companies like K12 Inc. that sell online learning products fund former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush's nonprofit Foundation for Excellence in Education. That group lobbies states ...

Mature Market for Online Education
Inside Higher Ed
The market for online higher education aimed at adults may be reaching maturity, according to a new report from Eduventures. And without a better-defined product, the report's author said online learning faces a risk of petering out and being little ...

Does Online Education Deal with Budget Cuts?
The Corsair
But the research also indicates a gap in the retention rates between students in distance learningand students in face-to-face classes, with many of the faculty and students skeptical about the value and legitimacy of the delivery method. ... The ...

Indiana schools 'seek more e-learning tools'
Virtual College
Many schoolchildren in the US state of Indiana who wish to receive the benefits of online learningare unable to because of the rising number of families who cannot afford laptops or tablets. Over a third of public school students at institutions in ...

Schools move toward online exams
Houma Courier
The state Department of Education is pushing for all schools to administer their tests online by the 2014-2015 school year, two years from now. School ... And, as school districts all over the state struggle with shrinking budgets, purchasing computer ...

A framework for independent learning in Montgomery County Public Schools?
Examiner.com
Superintendent Starr reportedly said that once the district is able to place all the classrooms on an equal technological footing, educators will be able to focus on what the teaching and learning environment would look like. ... Under the policy ...

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Chicago teachers vote to return to classroom
LubbockOnline.com
Members of the Chicago Teachers Union's House of Delegates celebrate Tuesday after the delegates voted to suspend a strike against the nation's third-largest school district. Classes were to resume today. Back | Next. Karen Lewis, president of the ...

Online school offers English language classes 'on the move'
Gulf Times
Through OSE's innovative CITRIX learning platform, clients are able to access their individually-designed course materials, as well as seeing, hearing and speaking to their tutor throughout each session,” elaborated a spokesperson for the school.

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Winter Sports School seeks charter school status
Park Record
The idea to switch from an independent school to a charter school came after years of on-and-off talks between the Park City School District (PCSD) Superintendent Ray Timothy and Rob Clayton, the WSS Head of School, but it wasn't until last spring that ...

R&R Driving School services offered in Pocatello, surrounding area
Idaho State Journal
POCATELLO — With the new option of online driver's education, area students are now learningto drive on the digital highway and that means the road to a learner's permit just got shorter. R and R Driving School, a long-time, local private driving ...

Rossland Secondary ironing out challenges of blended learning
Rossland News
Blended Learning landed at Rossland Secondary School in September and as with any new innovation, there have been some questions and challenges as everyone figured out where they had to be, and what they needed to be doing. ... It is the convergence of ...

Innovative teaching a boost for rural students' learning
www.kamloopsnews.ca
Rural students needs to connect with classmates and teachers to succeed, according to Erin Khelouiati, a Thompson Rivers University who studied the subject for her master's degree. That's because the intimacy of small communities is reflected in rural ...

BenchPrep, 'Spotify for education', offers classes and test prep for $30 a month
VentureBeat
The Chicago-based company, which launched in 2011, differs from a free online course service likeCoursera, as its curriculum-based courses and test prep are supplemented by licensed textbook content from publishers, including McGraw Hill, O'Reilly ...

Learning from the Best: A Conversation with Two National Online Teachers of ...
MarketWatch (press release)
The International Association for K-12 Online Learning (iNACOL) will host a webinar on Thursday, September 20th, sharing the insight and experience of two National Online Teachers of the Year, Kristin Kipp (2011) of Jeffco 21st Century Virtual Academy ...

'Parent Power Index' Rates States
Education Week News (blog)
17 by the Center for Education Reform (CER), aims to show parents how much influence they have over certain aspects of their children's education in their state, compared to parents in other states. To create its index, the CER team used a select group ...

OH: State education monopoly will crumble soon, expert says
Montana Watchdog
The state quadrupled the number of private school vouchers and lifted a cap on charterschools. Sommers stepped down in February and took a job as CEO of Carpe DiemLearning Systems, which runs tuition-free online charter schools. Now that he's in the ...

Montana Watchdog

Arkansas Education Department Brings Britannica Resources to Schools ...
PR Web (press release)
Arkansas students are starting the school year with a dynamic suite of high-quality digitalresources from Britannica Digital Learning, courtesy of the Arkansas Department of Education. Under a new licensing agreement by the department, every school ...

Freedom Academy welcomes first group of students
Imperial Valley Press
Today, it is a small group of students learning about the weathering process by shaking a small jar filled with vinegar and pieces of sandstone. ... Through the local school district here, the academy offers all home-schooled students in Imperial ...

Turning the page on learning
TheChronicleHerald.ca
The English teacher at Sir John A. Macdonald High School has his students create profiles on Facebook for the play's various characters. As students work their way through The Merchant of Venice, they use their cellphones to make the characters ...

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Education Dept. investigating complaint that some UM online classes not ...
The Republic
Travis Moses, a blind student, said he can't always do his homework because some online videos loaded onto the learning management system Moodle don't have adequate captions and someonline images are not clear enough for a screen reading ...

Mallard Online: German Students Visit THS
my.hsj.org
They took notes in classes like Physics and American Government, and even had the chance to speak in their native tongue with Taylor HS students learning German. Going through the schoolday with Powell and Patschke, there were many differences that ...

Learning with the Wizard
Early County News
Lions, scarecrows, tin men, witches and girls in red slippers crowded the halls at ECES last week when first graders came to school dressed as their favorite Wizard of Oz character. See story on page 1B ...

OSU to offer free online classes on Coursera
Columbus Dispatch (blog)
"This is the finest tradition and calling of our land-grant heritage." OSU is delighted to be part of this forward-looking approach to teaching and learning and will add other courses in time, Alutto said. Since offering its first classes six months ...

13 High Schools Worth Visiting
Education Week News (blog)
Carpe Diem , located in Yuma Arizona, is the best example of a 50/50 blend with an effective combination of personalized online learning in a lab setting and workshops taught by masterteachers. 3. Classroom assessment. As featured in a recent Getting ...

Take-home netbooks open new worlds for Ballico students
Modesto Bee
The cutting edge of education technology booted up in Ballico School as excited sixth-, seventh- and eighth-graders signed on to netbooks with "anywhere Internet" that they get to take home. "Pretty cool," said eighth-grader Blaine Chance as he signed ...

Modesto Bee

NZPF President's speech to Trans-Tasman Conference
Voxy
As we know, all good learning begins with a leap into the unknown but it takes a huge leap of faith to organise a conference of this magnitude. I know there have been some ... Wherever the economic agenda has been implemented we see common features of ...

The VHS Collaborative Appoints Jeffrey A. Elliott as New Chief Executive Officer
MarketWatch (press release)
Founded in 1996 and headquartered in Maynard, MA, The VHS Collaborative (formerly Virtual HighSchool Global Consortium) is the pioneer of K-12 online learning, having first brought online learning into secondary education. Since then, the nonprofit ...

Opinion: The new school curriculum means following the Yellow Brick Road to ...
Vancouver Sun
The greater value of education for every student is not in learning the information but in learningthe skills they need to successfully find, consume, think about and apply it in their lives.” Privateschool teachers and administrators must be laughing.

Ford Launches Innovative Education Initiative with Irving ISD
Sacramento Bee
... Raul Magdaleno in a motivational rally to challenge students to be resilient and pursue theireducation. Rallies also will be held at Nimitz and Irving High Schools on September 19 and 20, and will be available online for all Irving ISD high school ...

Grant to aid education department
Chart (subscription)
The Teacher Learning Community is an online resource that provides professional development training for faculty and school administrators all over the world. “This is a great opportunity,” Dr. Al R. Cade, Interim Dean of School of Education, said. “We ...

Ed Moore: Testing so we can better teach
Gainesville Sun
Many great online tools exist that can be developed so that teachers can get feedback quickly and assessments can become tools for teaching and learning. Governor Scott's transition also called for administering all assessments online. We could go one ...

USF trades Blackboard for Canvas
The Oracle
After more than 12 years, USF will be transitioning from Blackboard to a new online learning management system called Canvas, which is a product of the educational software company Instructure. The USF System Learning Management Committee made the ...

Longer Hours, Less Experience for Charter Teachers, Analysis Finds
Education Week News (blog)
What are the educational backgrounds of teachers working in charters, private schools, and regular public schools? The paper finds that nearly 11 percent ofcharter-school teachers are likely to have attended "highly selective" colleges, and 8.4 ...

Education Week News (blog)

Poughkeepsie High hailed for progress by state education chief John King in visit
Poughkeepsie Journal
The visit gave him a firsthand look at how the grant, received last year, was being implemented to improve learning at the school. “Students can take classes online to make up credit,” said Edgar Glascott, Poughkeepsie High School principal. “If you ...

Vanderbilt's Newest Digital Learning Initiative | Center for Teaching ...
By Derek Bruff
Blog. Vanderbilt's Newest Digital Learning Initiative. By Derek Bruff, CFT Director. This morning Vanderbilt announced a new partnership with the digital learning consortium Coursera. Coursera is anonline platform for open-access, non-credit ...
Center for Teaching

Online, Continuing, and Professional Education Update by UPCEA ...
By Ray
Centralized Online Learning: A New Trend in Higher Ed? - Tanya Roscorla, Center for Digital Ed. Announcements from major university systems this week could signal the start of a trend that brings sophisticated online learning programs into ...
Online, Continuing, and Professional...

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Comparing Khan Academy, Coursera, Udacity, & edX missions

Comparing Khan Academy, Coursera, Udacity, & edX missions ...
By Ray Schroeder
Online Learning Update. Online Learning News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor ~ University of Illinois at Springfield ... With most new markets comes competition, as is the case with online education. Today, there are four major ...
Online Learning Update 

State's first virtual academy opens amid questions
Santa Fe New Mexican.com
Jackson, who just relocated from Belen to Farmington, is a virtual student in the newly opened New Mexico Virtual Academy, a statewide public charter school authorized by the Farmington MunicipalSchool District that offers online individualized ...

Online learning jumps to next level
University World News
As millions of students have flocked to free 'massive open online courses' or MOOCs in recent months, higher education experts have focused on two big questions: whether universities will begin to offer credit for such courses, and what might be done ...

Alleyoop and Naviance target smart success for learners
Examiner.com
Alleyoop, a customized, on-line gaming, educational strategy designed for teens and incubated within Pearson, one of the nation's leading education companies, is dedicated to helping students succeed by connecting them with the right resources at the ...


Friedman: Lifelong learning is essential
Albany Times Union
The truth is, if you want a decent job that will lead to a decent life today you have to work harder, regularly reinvent yourself, obtain at least some form of postsecondary education, make sure that you're engaged in lifelong learning and play by the ...

Should Local School Districts Open Their Own Cyber Schools?
Patch.com
Neshannock Township School District, located just north of New Castle, seems to have come up with a way to keep that money in-house while still providing students residing in the district with anonline learning option. According to a video ...

Michigan has more charter schools than ever, but what's the smartest choice?
Detroit Free Press
Some say Michigan should follow the lead of states such as Delaware, Minnesota and Connecticut, which have established strict guidelines for those who issue charter school contracts. Minnesota, for ... "Authorizers in my organization are very committed ...

School district website invites comments
Grand Island Independent
Students, parents, teachers, administrators and the public both inside and outside the Grand Island Public Schools soon will be able to vote and comment about school issues online. Jack Sheard, GIPS marketing and communications coordinator, said ...

Viewpoint: Strategies being employed in response to new testing results
South Washington County Bulletin
The second growth data point is a measure of how fast a school is closing the achievement gap between the identified sub-group populations, for example special education, and the highest achieving group. The new ... Fortunately, a number of online ...

Eye on Boise: If voters say no to school reforms …
The Spokesman Review
The laws rolled back teachers' collective bargaining rights, imposed a new merit-pay bonus system, and called for providing a laptop computer for every Idaho high school student and a new focus ononline learning, among other changes. The first laptops ...

Our Educational Financial Structure Needs all the Help it can get – Schoola ...
Daily Deal Media
Parents know that it's not just the families that are scrimping by, many school districts are too. According to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, of the 46 states that publish educationbudget data, 37 cut per student funding last year ...

In search of deeper conversations on education
The Gazette: Eastern Iowa Breaking News and Headlines
Iowa's Creative Corridor has business leaders actively engaged and ready to help, non-profit organizations diligently working to impact student learning, and outstandingteachers, administrators and parents ready to push forward new models of school ...

The Gazette: Eastern Iowa Breaking News and Headlines

Back to school in WNY: many changes ahead
Metrowny.com
That statement, intended to guide the Comprehensive District Education Plan for S-GI that was unveiled before school let out last June, is “linking today's learners to tomorrow's possibilities.” That vision, according to a statement made by JoAnn DePue...

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Learn how to create origami
Concord Monitor
Learn some amazing paper folding techniques. Local award ... If you would be interested inlearning more, call 746-6121. ... Also, Labels for Education can be brought to the 'Tween School'n' Home program at Harold Martin School or the collection box ...

Hanover schools not making 'adequate yearly progress'
The Evening Sun
For the first time in several years, Hanover Public School District has failed to make adequate yearly progress, according to data given to the district by the state Department of Education. Because Hanover Middle School and Hanover High School did not ...

DESAM claims disorder in city schools
E-Pao.net
Among the 207 teachers only 87 were found to have completed BEd course with records suggesting that only 364 uniforms have been provided to the students which only confirms that either the number of students is cooked up figure or school authorities ...

It's hard to learn when you're hungry
GalesburgPlanet.com
... email notifications for new posts but you can unsubscribe at anytime. A password will be e-mailed to you. ... That's a powerful reminder of why we must make sure that every child who needs schoolmeals gets them, including low-income children who ...

Should Parents Impose a Dress Code?
New York Times (blog)
The codes themselves vary; some rules are intended to promote modesty (skirts and shorts must extend beyond fingertips; there can be no spaghetti straps) and others to encourage a respectfullearning environment (no jeans; no screen prints or text on ...

Charity notebook: 18 Central New York nonprofit groups vie for $8500 grant
Syracuse.com (blog)
The Jowonio School in Syracuse would buy computer tablets and specialized communication apps to give a voice to pre-school children who struggle to communicate. And Hospice of ... The groups are asking the public to vote online for their grant ...

San Angelo-area news in brief, 9/9
San Angelo Standard Times
The classes for adults will guide beginning students in learning watercolor techniques, washes, color value and gray scale, mixing colors, developing their design and composition, and learningdrawing skills. Experienced artists will be given the ...

Public television requires strong foundation of public funding
South Bend Tribune
We help parents of all economic conditions get their children ready to learn and succeed in schoolthrough programming like Sesame Street, SuperWhy and Curious George. We help teachers, through PBS Learning Media, access media modules that enrich ...

Outdoor Notes
Poughkeepsie Journal
Astronomy program — Storm King School, 314 Mountain Road, Cornwall. 7:30 p.m. Sept. 11. An astronomy series for adults and teens. Join Warren Mumford, physics and astronomy professor. Prepaid registration is required. For more information and online ...

Search local inventory, coupons and more
The Herald | HeraldOnline.com
8, 2012 — /PRNewswire/ -- Comcast/NBC Universal President Kyle McSlarrow joined today with state, local and school district officials as well as special guest SpongeBob SquarePants at Seahurst Elementary School to announce year two of Internet ...

New Rules
New York Times
The news from Estonia prompted The Guardian newspaper of London to publish an online poll asking its readers: “Children aged 7 to 16 are being given the opportunity to learn how to code in schools in Estonia, should U.K. school children be taught ...

New York Times

Digital games may help aging minds stay sharp
ksl.com
CLEVLAND — Classic board games are getting an online facelift, thanks to Facebook and other social media outlets. Games ... Doctors still tout the benefits of low-tech brain activities, too, like card games, crossword puzzles and learning a musical ...

For the Participant, Sept. 9: A list of events in central Pennsylvania
PennLive.com (blog)
Selected, timely events will be published in the newspaper each Sunday, but there will be no date restrictions of listings for the online version. Please ... Mid-State Mavericks 2013 baseball tryouts, Oct. 8 at Central Dauphin High School with 10/11U ...

High School Elite Experience Coming this Month
Wired2Fish
Share This Story! Scores of high school students will have a chance to rub shoulders with and learnfishing techniques from some of the world's best professional anglers in the Bassmaster High SchoolElite Experience, to be held Saturday, Sept ...

Literacy: dispelling the myths
Malta Independent Online
Initial and continuous professional development of all teachers, including secondary subjectteachers, should cover literacy and digital know-how explicitly. Thirdly, we must achieve fairer and more inclusive participation in literacy learning. We need ...

New Indian school opens in Muaither
Gulf Times
Digital Campus, an end-to-end campus information management system in a tie-up with Education to Home (ETH Ltd) is one of its major highlights. Classes are held between 7am and 1.30 pm. The school provides online learning management system among ...
 
Gulf Times

BBB: Better Business Bureau offers advice for finding a tutor
Odessa American
The school year is back in full swing, and whether your child is preparing for the SAT or just needs a hand with math or science, a tutoring service can be a valuable tool. To make sure you get ... Onlinetutoring services typically cost anywhere from ...

It's the hols but the Costa serves up a life lesson to remember
Scottish Daily Record
No school, no homework, luscious lie-ins and – weather permitting – a bit of lounging in the sun. So when my mum asked if I wanted to spend a further two weeks in the classroom learning Spanish, I was horrified by the idea. Until I read the small ... I ...

Schools urged to take part in Green Guardian awards
Mansfield Chad
In 2011, winners included Bagthorpe Primary School, who picked up the Education and Environment Award for involving pupils in a wide range of environmental projects and outdoorlearning. The school also tried to improve the diversity of habitat in ...

AT THE LIBRARY
Seacoastonline.com
13, at 7 p.m.: The Brentwood Historical Society will join with the Mary E. Bartlett Library to present a program on "New Hampshire's One-Room Rural Schools: The Romance and the Reality. ... "Making Sense of the Civil War" is funded by the American ...

Good Attitude, Math and Science the Key to Entering a Career in Modern ...
Twin Falls Times-News
Motivation and education also go a long way for Billington. “I like people who are ... In the past, Billington said, he's hired high school students, but prefers those who are currently in college, especially students in agriculture classes at the ...

Independence schools send 15 students to health camp
Kansas City Star
The Independence School District was offering to help send her son and 14 other overweight children to a health camp in South Carolina for the entire fall semester. Now she was studying the ... Who loves the Schwinn Sting-Ray bike she bought him online...

Kansas City Star

Feds Launch Enhanced Online Learning Community « Educational ...
By admin
The U.S. Department of Education launched the School Turnaround Learning Community (STLC) — an enhanced version of its online learning community for school turnaround — on Aug. 20. The site now features improved search and chat ...
Educational Technology

Learning Digital Marketing Plan an Overview | When In Manila
By Philippe Louis Villareal
When In Manila, learning Digital Marketing is the next big thing and the option to learn it from the comfort of your own home gives you all the more reason to take it. If however you still are unsure if you wanted to take it then here are some ...
When In Manila

Mobile Learning On The Interwebs « Virtual School Meanderings
By mkbnl
Wriggle from Typetec has kicked off its first mobile learning programme with the largest ever delivery of iPads to a single school in Ireland today. The new brand represents the IT provider's educationdivision and the Wriggle 1:1 programme ...
Virtual School Meanderings

Online learning: An unexpected remedy to segregated schools ...
Last week, Richard Rothstein and Mark Santow wrote a compelling piece, reminding us of the continued, devastating impact of segregation on educational ...

Journalism School Professor Appointed to Help Guide Columbia's
Sree Sreenivasan assumes his new job as Columbia's first chief digital officer at a moment whenonline and distance learning are hot button issues in higher ...

Approval Eligibility - Digital Learning Department @ OSPI
Reports · Online Learning Advisory Committee · Overview · Meetings ... Step 3: Online SchoolProgram options for OSPI approval. There are three approval ...

Digital Learning
John Bailey, executive director of Digital Learning Now!, a national campaign of the ... “A student can become a contributor in a different way in an online world.” ...

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Daphne Koller: What we're learning from online education (video)

Daphne Koller: What we're learning from online education (video)

Daphne Koller is bringing courses from top colleges online, free for anyone who wants to take them. Why you should listen to her: A 3rd generation Ph.D who is passionate about education, Stanford professor Daphne Koller is excited to be making the college experience available to anyone through her startup, Coursera. With classes from 16 top colleges, Coursera is an innovative model for online learning. While top schools have been putting lectures online for years, Coursera's platform supports the other vital aspect of the classroom: tests and assignments that reinforce learning. At the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, computer scientist Daphne Koller studies how to model large, complicated decisions with lots of uncertainty. (Her research group is called DAGS, which stands for Daphne's Approximate Group of Students.) In 2004, she won a MacArthur Fellowship for her work, which involves, among other things, using Bayesian networks and other techniques to explore biomedical and genetic data sets. "Classes involve recorded lectures and quizzes in which the video pauses to let students answer questions."--Ari Levy in Bloomberg BusinessWeek

Quotes by Daphne Koller:

“In many of our [online] courses, the median response time for a question on the question and answer forum was 22 minutes — which is not a level of service I have ever offered to my Stanford students.” 

"We should spend less time at universities filling our students' minds with content by lecturing at them, and more time igniting their creativity … by actually talking with them.”


RIP JOE KUBERT: From 'Sgt. Rock' to the Kubert School, creator-teacher leaves ...
Washington Post (blog)
One of the most renowned teachers in comics was at the table before scores of us, giving a talk and drawing with a marksman's precision. Many students ... Not only was he a prolific artist, he was also a fantastic teacher who with his wife, Muriel ...

Hooked on teaching
New York Post
The former Bronx elementary-school art teacher, who wrote blogs advocating for sex workers when she was not teaching young kids, says she's “very happy” in her new career teaching adults memoir writing at Gotham Writing Workshops. She has no plan to ...

New York Post

Leave No Teacher Behind
Huffington Post
There are Facebook sections devoted to ex-student fans of teachers, people whose lives have been changed by a single teacher, people who realize that teachers see in them something that their parents don't, that they don't see in themselves, but the ...

Education Olympics: How Does the U.S. Rank?
PBS NewsHour (blog)
But how do we stack up against the world when it comes to education? According to this infograph by Certification Map, the U.S. -- which leads in gold medal count -- is ranked seventh in high school graduation rates, trailing countries like Germany ...

'EC needs new education culture'
iAfrica.com
"The ANC believes that at the core of the education problems in the province is the absence of an institutional culture that is harmonious to the values and the type of education system we need to build," it said in a statement. "The infrastructure ...

Plans to overhaul primary maths are 'seriously flawed'
BBC News
Primary classroom The government is planning to overhaul maths teaching in primary schools by 2014 ... In a letter to the Education Secretary, Michael Gove, National Numeracy says the draft curriculum is "overloaded" and relies too much on rotelearning.

BBC News

Teacher Travis Ellington: An exceptional teacher in Toombs for exceptional ...
Atlanta Journal Constitution (blog)
With almost all discussion and policy about teacher evaluation centered on students' test scores, I'm writing a series of profiles of great Georgia teachers whose contributions are only partially measured (if at all) by their students' performances on ...

Atlanta Journal Constitution (blog)

Westerville teachers to vote on new contract
Columbus Dispatch
Other sticking points detailed in the survey included a requirement in the district proposal that elementary school teachers would have to monitor recess, and that teachers who aren't specialized in art, music and physical education would be able to ...

Braun: This teachers union wants to lead change in NJ
The Star-Ledger - NJ.com (blog)
The AFT is smaller than the state association's parent National Education Association and has only a few locals in New Jersey. It does represent teachers in the nation's largest cities — including New York and Los Angeles. And, since its founding as a ...

The Star-Ledger - NJ.com (blog)

Back to school: How to measure a good teacher
AXcess News
In the past decade of national anxiety over the quality of American public education, no area ineducation reform has gotten more attention than teacher quality, and few reforms have encountered as much pushback as the efforts to change how to take the ...

Teacher layoffs look less likely in DeKalb
Atlanta Journal Constitution
Teachers are still anxious though because there are still several dozen teachers too many. If layoffs do happen after the start of school Monday, the delayed decision will put teachers on the street after other districts have completed their summer hiring.

How Obama Will Cash In on Paul Ryan: Medicare, Taxes, Education & More
Daily Beast
Ryan is an articulate, informed, self-proclaimed purveyor of “bold” ideas that also happen to be very bad, both substantively and politically. By the time the Obama campaign finishes with him, his specter, like hers, will become a red flag—in his case...

Daily Beast

I for incomplete
New York Post
Indeed, according to the latest report from the State Education Department, only 214 of the districts have submitted plans that have been OK'd by their unions; nearly 500 (and, notably, New York City, as well) are still haggling over fine print ...

New York Post

Voyager Learning Re-Launches VmathLive
Sacramento Bee
13, 2012 -- /PRNewswire/ -- Voyager Learning, the nation's most comprehensive provider of preK–12 print and online intervention learning solutions and education services, today announced the re-launch of its VmathLive program, a web-based online math ...

What Your Child's Teacher Wants You to Know
Baristanet
We asked several teachers, from preschool to high school, what they want parents to know. Here is their advice, which ... Let the teacher know you support them and your child's education, and that means that you are going to extend a little faith in ...

Baristanet

EmpowerED Georgia Empowers Georgians for Public Education
Patch.com
Matt Jones is a public school teacher from Vidalia, Georgia. ... Inform—we saw there was a big gap in education coverage in the media. Education issues are complex. The public is given catch phrases, but no one is explaining or discussing the ...

Tanzania: Teachers' Grievances to 'Dominate'
AllAfrica.com
Dodoma — A HEATED debate over the remuneration of teachers and unpaid arrears will most likely dominate parliamentary proceedings as Education and Vocational Training Minister Shukuru Kawambwa tables his annual budget proposals. Lawmakers ...

A Service Science Perspective on Higher Education
Center For American Progress
Linking Service Productivity Theory and Higher Education Reform ... A service view of the university ecosystem recognizes the relational nature of exchange between students, faculty, staff, higher education institutions, government, and other related ...

Center For American Progress

Teacher left paralysed after school trip loses High Court claim
Telegraph.co.uk
One of the games involved children and adults throwing wellington boots as far as they could, with the teachers handicapped by having to throw backwards through their legs. But the 45-year-old former head of design and technology at Wilmington ...

Telegraph.co.uk

Beloved teacher dies at Basehor intersection known for crashes
Kansas City Star
“Ronda was one of the most gifted and talented teachers I have ever had the experience of working with in 30 years of public and private education.” Andrews' death was particularly disturbing because it occurred at the same intersection where the ...

Kansas City Star

Ontario moves to protect young teachers' jobs
Toronto Star
In a move to protect 10000 young teaching jobs, Ontario Education Minister Laurel Broten said Monday the government will regulate fair hiring practices as of Sept. 1. The regulation change — which, among other things, limits retired teachers to a ...

Six Texas Teachers Successfully Complete Professional Development Mentorship
Sacramento Bee
Effective Teacher Network participants work closely with an LTF mentor and a small group of experienced teachers to construct professional teaching portfolios. These portfolios allow teachersto demonstrate ... About National Math and Science: National ...

Teachers Notebook Seeks Sponsors for Their Back to School Event with the ...
Virtual-Strategy Magazine
Educational resource network Teachers Notebook is hosting a Back to School event with its VirtualTeaching Expo on August 25, 2012 and is inviting education industry sponsors. Teachers will have the opportunity to learn and present teaching strategies ...

An Apple for the teacher: are iPads the future in class?
The Guardian (blog)
But before our school jumped on the iPad bandwagon, I wanted to determine how these devices were going to offer a better learning experience compared to the laptops that we already had in our school. My 'iPad journey' ... children's learning. All the ...

The Guardian (blog)

How To Make the African American Education Initiative Work
Huffington Post
On the other hand, however, I am certain he would feel that the initiative's stated mission was lacking by understating the obvious: the need to ensure that a quality teacher is in every classroom, especially the classrooms of kids with the greatest ...

Basic Education Minister Defends School Closure - As 84 Shutdown in Region 1
AllAfrica.com
The Basic and Secondary Education minister has defended her Ministry's current decision toclose certain schools within Region I Educational Directorate that failed to meet the laid down requirements, emphasising that "there will be no compromise." ...

Drivers' education companies unlikely to return to Unified
Journal Times
Tougher on teachers — Unified to pilot more rigorous teacher evaluation system. RACINE — A few Unified teachers will get a taste this fall of a more rigorous evaluation system. .... Two driving companies alleged American Professional Driving School ...

Valley school districts struggle to retain teachers
Tucson Citizen
The National Commission on Teaching and America's Future estimates that turnover costs public schools across the country more than $7.3 billion a year as districts have to recruit, hire and train new teachers. To combat turnover, districts are offering ...

Word of the Day | primogeniture - NYTimes.com - The Learning ...
By By THE LEARNING NETWORK
The Learning Network - Teaching and Learning With The New York Times .... Joyce is the TeacherLibrarian at Springfield Township High School and blogs for School Library Journal. ... We are in such an exciting time in education!” — Tex ... I wish that my teachers would understand that I'm not lonely just because I'm friends with the "loners" (kids who don't speak much English, kids with Autism and other special needs) and that I'm not just being nice because I feel sorry for them.” ...
The Learning Network

The Fiscal Cliff for Higher Education - Next - The Chronicle of Higher ...
By Jeff Selingo
Meanwhile, two major credit-rating agencies, Standard & Poor's and Moody's Investors Service, released warnings that put a negative outlook on all but the name-brand market leaders in highereducation. “We're seeing prolonged, serious stress,” Karen ... Now, the university is planning a competency-based learning model aimed at work-force development for those who need an associate degree, all for a target price of just $4000. All of these solutions, in LeBlanc's mind, fulfill ...
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Affton Educator Named Teacher of the Year « CBS St. Louis
By Bob Hamilton
One teacher there got a wonderful surprise, Friday, as she was preparing her classroom for the new term. ... The Missouri Department of Education named Cathy Cartier the “Teacher of the Year” in Missouri for the upcoming year.
CBS St. Louis

Ryan's VP Nod: What's It Mean for Education? - Rick Hess Straight ...
By Rick Hess
Education policy maven Rick Hess of the American Enterprise Institute think tank offers straight talk on matters of policy, politics, research, and reform. Follow Rick and AEI's Education Program on Twitter http://twitter.com/AEIeducation.
Rick Hess Straight Up

Taliban May Be Willing to Promote Women's Education as Part of ...
By Doug Barry
According to a document sent to The Sunday Times, the Taliban might be, could be, fingers-crossed ready to promote women's education as part of a bid to restart peace talks with the West. Though The Times couldn't independently verify the ...
Jezebel

Education Minister heartened with results of Math, English pilot ...
By KNews
Minister of Education Priya Manickchand has finally responded to critics, asserting that her Ministry's ambitious programme to improve Mathematics and English at this year's Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) Examination has ... “That is not to say that we thinkteachers have not been doing what is good, but somehow or the other the system has not been able to get those grades up and this for me is not only a matter of concern but almost a challenge or a red flag in ...
Kaieteur News

AM News: Ryan Selection Spotlights Education Budget - Typepad
By Victoria Pang
talks a lot about scaling back the reach of the federal government, but back in 2001, he voted in favor of No Child Left Behind, the signature education program of the George W. Bush administration that gave unprecedented power to the U.S. ... layoffs nullified LA Times: Setting the stage for future legal battles, a state appeals court Friday nullified a settlement that allowed the Los Angeles Unified School District to shield certain schools from teacher layoffs during budget crises.
This Week In Education

Education Counselors Visit Schools in Mussoorie - Central Tibetan ...
By jamphel
DHARAMSHALA: The department of education's chief counselor Dolkar Wangmo and assistant counselor Sonam Pelmo are on a visit to the Central School for Tibetans and Tibetan Homes Foundation in Mussorie from 13-18 August. ... building, peer pressure, study skills, health and hygiene, scholarship opportunities and educational options after class XII etc – through activities based group counseling and counselling of students individually referred by teachers and guardians.
Central Tibetan Administration

5 Ways Teachers Can Earn Some Extra Cash | CAREEREALISM
By 2tor
Teachers Earn Extra Cash If it was your lifelong dream to become a teacher, chances are you didn't go into it for the money. Summers off and other breaks are great perks, but let's face it: You are never really off – just spending your free time planning lessons and grading papers. Alternatively ...Some online schools allow you to apply for teaching positions on their websites, but you can also apply at your local community college, which often offer night courses for aspiring educators. 5.
CAREEREALISM.com

Advocates plan NM lawsuit over Latino education
By Maria Eugenia Alcón
The Latino Education Task Force is scheduled Sunday to announce the details of its challenge at a press conference at Albuquerque High School. The group says it has enlisted the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund to ...
NBC Latino

Education in the Age of Globalization » Blog Archive » Is Education ...
By YongZhao
The report U.S. Education Reform and National Security makes education an national security issue, which is of course not new, but still garnered tremendous media attention. I have seen different ...Children are “human capital”, and the task of teachers, predominantly disenfranchised women, is to prepare them for whatever future conflict the U.S. might have with the rest of the world. The report is..... 09.18.11 The Grass Is Greener: Learning from Other Countries. 09.11.11 If Lady ...
Education in the Age of Globalization

Intel in Education: Free Teaching Resources, Tools
Intel in Education: Free Teaching Resources, Tools, and Lesson Plans. ... Intel® Teach 10 MillionTeachers Transforming Learning. Intel® Teach teachers ...
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