Archive for the ‘Open Learning’ Category

Measuring Literacy in a World Gone Digital

A student writing about, say, Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin, might have checked out a book on the history of aviation from the local library or tucked into the family’s dog-eared Britannica. An ambitious college freshman might have augmented the research by looking up some old newspaper clips on microfilm or picking up a monograph in […]

’GBH on ‘front line’ of on-demand TV

Public television operator WGBH in Boston has figured much of it out already.Read the Full Story

‘Sesame Street Live’ tour is ‘Out of This World’

This year, in fact, it’s “Out Of This World.” Read the Full Story

More Than 95 Percent Of Parents Monitor Their Children’s Online Activities

The Conference Board’s latest Consumer Internet Barometer, a quarterly measure of who’s doing what on the Internet, finds that three out of four parents say they are in the room when their children go online. Read the Full Story

Nicole makes her mark

This result places Nicole in the top 16 per cent of students in the StateRead the Full Story

U.S. Army and Nielsen Media Research Partner with Boston University School of Management to Develop the Technologically Connected Home of the Future

BOSTON, Dec. 15 /PRNewswire/ — The Boston University Institute for Leading in a Dynamic Economy (BUILDE) today announced the creation of the “Technologically Connected Home Project.” Read the Full Story

The State of Distance Education: Observations

As the year comes to a close, take stock of what you’ve accomplished, and think about what’s to come. This time, we put distance learning in context as a stage in an evolving enterprise.Read the Full Story

Home schooling passes test in achievement scores

They have been victorious in the prestigious annual National Geographic and National Spelling bees. In 2000, the winner of the Scripps Howard National Spelling Bee was home-schooled, as were the second- and third-place finishers.Read the Full Story

Home schooling is attracting mainstream families

On top of it all, she finds time to home-school her oldest daughter. Make that, she and her husband, Harlan, who is an emergency room doctor at DePaul Hospital. The Maryland Heights couple split the responsibility. Read the Full Story

Home-schooling purists spurn growing online charter schools

The Akron Beacon Journal, in an effort to compile its own data, surveyed Ohio’s more than 600 school districts last fall. Read the Full Story