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Washington – Open-education efforts like the free lecture materials at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and producing free online textbooks are relatively new, and advocates face questions about how to pay for such projects and how to maintain their quality.Wired CampusFull Article
With a cumulative enrollment of 2.02 million learners, Sitansu S Jena, Chairman, National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS), talks to Tirna Ray on how open schooling can educate India SOURCE: The Times of IndiaFull Article
The faculty union at the University of Manitoba, in Canada, sent an e-mail message to its members this month alerting them to a popular Web site where students are sharing course materials, including what the union calls professors’ “intellectual property.”SOURCE: Wired CampusRead the Full Article
Forget free content repositories; the Massachusetts Institute of Technology wants to deliver “interactive” elite education to the masses, complete with credentials certifying “mastery” of MIT-grade coursework.SOURCE: Inside Higher EducationRead the Full Story
App arrives just in time for holiday travel, building on success of the PBS KIDS Video App on iPad, which served more than 86 million streams in NovemberSOURCE: PBSRead the Press Release
University administrators have begun implementing the new “open-access” policy approved this fall by Princeton faculty members to expand the public’s access to their research.Princeton UniversityRead the Press Release
PHILADELPHIA — Blackboard found itself playing defense last week when, right before most higher education technologists were set to ship out for Educause 2011, a competitor announced a free and “open” learning management system (LMS) — a technology Blackboard sells for a pretty penny.SOURCE: Inside Higher EducationRead the Full Article
Leading-Edge Game Technologies Help Kids Build Math Skills Across PlatformsSOURCE: PBSRead the Press Release
ARLINGTON, VA; OCTOBER 6, 2011 – Gilbert and Sullivan’s comic nautical romp “H.M.S. Pinafore,” a production of Minneapolis’ Guthrie Theater and Twin Cities Public Television (tpt), opens the nine-part PBS Arts Fall Festival on Friday, October 14, 2011 at 9:00 p.m. ET on PBS.SOURCE: PBSRead the Full Article
Latest app from PBS KIDS introduces children to Spanish in a fun and interactive waySOURCE: PBSRead the Press Release
