Distance learning degrees are on the increase
As professionals develop their careers, distance learning is becoming a growth area for universities The Guardian Full Article
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Flipped Learning Network
Launched spring of 2012, the mission of the Flipped Learning Network™ is to provide educators with the knowledge, skills, and resources to successfully implement Flipped Learning. The vision is preparing educators to adopt the Flipped Learning Ideology. Flipped learning happens when the teacher’s lecture is delivered outside of the traditional class time, via a video students view […]
‘Digital Badges’ Would Represent Students’ Skill Acquisition
Initiatives seek to give students permanent online records for developing specific skills Education Week Full Article
Colleges taking a team approach to eTextbooks
Campuses will see if electronic textbooks can bring down textbook costs and satisfy student demands, thanks to an Internet2 project eCampus News Full Article
New Strategies and Partnerships for Learning
Joel Smith, vice provost and CIO at Carnegie Mellon University (PA), believes that education technologists have not yet fully explored the potential of partnering with learning scientists and others seeking to inform instruction. CT talked with Smith about the need for these new partnerships. Campus Technology Full Article
Public university becomes first to endorse untraditional online model
Some UW faculty members, after political clashes with Gov. Scott Walker, remain skeptical of UW Flexible Degree eSchool News Full Story
New College Board Advocacy & Policy Center Brief Highlights Trends in Public Higher Education
With three-quarters of all undergraduate students enrolled in public institutions, accurate information about prices, funding sources, and operation costs is critical College Board Press Release
McGraw-Hill Higher Education Collaborates with Desire2Learn to Enable Seamless Access to Resources via the McGraw-Hill Campus Digital Educational Service
Company collaborates with Desire2Learn to deliver its higher education resources to instructors directly from colleges’ existing LMSs, enhancing a seamless user experience that features single sign-on access and automatic registration Desire2Learn Press Release
School Administrators Are More Open to Mobile Devices, Study Says
District administrators and principals own more smartphones and tablets than the general U.S. adult population, according to the 2011 Speak Up survey from Project Tomorrow. The education nonprofit organization surveyed more than 416,000 K-12 students, parents, teachers, librarians and administrators in fall 2011 and released the results in two separate reports. Converge Magazine Full Article
Department of Energy Creates Online-Learning Platform for Technical Training
Washington—The U.S. Department of Energy today unveiled a new open-source online-learning platform designed to facilitate technical training. The platform, called the National Training and Education Resource, or NTER, is already being used at Duke University Medical School and 17 Illinois community colleges, said John Shockley, senior project manager at SRI International, the company that developed […]