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Desire2Learn Increases Student Success and Graduation Rates with Acquisition of Degree Compass Predictive Analytics Technology

Degree Compass Empowers Students with Personalized Course and Degree Path Recommendations, Reducing Time-To-Degree and Increasing Graduation Rates Kitchener-Waterloo, Canada, January 24, 2013 Desire2Learn Incorporated (“Desire2Learn”), a leader in providing innovative learning solutions, announces the acquisition of Degree Compass™, a predictive analytics technology that helps students select the courses to take that will drive the successful […]

Districts Look to E-Rate Program to Help With Common Core Tech Costs

Federal program does not meet all technology demands Education Week Full Article

In massive online course offered by Stanford, teams unleash diverse approaches to creativity

Innovative ‘Crash Course’ inspires students around the world to think in new ways. Stanford University Press Release

Digital Learning, for the Learners

It was probably inevitable that any group of people who sought, however tentatively, to define “the rights, responsibilities, and possibilities for education in the globally connected world of the present and beyond” would find themselves accused of excluding important parties, of being “top-down,” and of hubris. Inside Higher Ed Full Article

FCC’s Broadband Acceleration Initiative To Foster Gigabit Goal

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: NEWS MEDIA CONTACT: January 18, 2013 Justin Cole, 202-418-8191 Email: justin.cole@fcc.gov FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski Issues Gigabit City Challenge To Providers, Local, And State Governments To Bring At Least One Ultra- Fast Gigabit Internet Community To Every State In U.S. By 2015 Washington, D.C. – Today at the U.S. Conference of Mayors […]

Alliance for Distance Education in California: ADEC Digital Learning Summit XXIV — It’s a Different World! Palm Springs

Digital textbooks, blended learning, brave new leadership and advancing student success. These are the topics to be addressed at ADEC’s twenty-fourth eLearning summit. Expert panels will share ideas while providing opportunities for attendees to discuss and explore possible solutions offered by online learning and technology. Speakers include K-12, community college, and university educators, as well […]

PBS Kids Announces New Math Series Peg + Cat, Premiering Fall 2013

New multiplatform media property takes preschoolers on adventures and teaches foundational math concepts and skills PBS Press Release

AUSTRALIA: Major research council opts for open access policy

Australia’s major non-medical research funding organisation has adopted a new, open access policy that means the results of all the research it backs must be made freely available. This will require the published results to be deposited in an ‘open access institutional repository’ within 12 months of the date of publication in a journal. University […]

Cutting Out the Middlemen: Do Professors Need Universities Anymore?

In the business of higher education, universities are standing in the way of professors and profits. EDTECH Focus on Higher Education Full Article

As California Goes?

California is the Fertile Crescent for massive open online course providers, at least the for-profit ones. The state is also shaping up as a testing ground for phase two of the MOOC experiment, which includes fees and a path to college credit, and where public colleges try to use material from MOOCs to help meet […]