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TED, a nonprofit organization devoted to spreading big ideas through a series of conferences and a free video platform, has continued its expansion into education by launching a brand-new TED-Ed website with tools to help teachers use video in the classroom.eSchool NewsFull Article
Original short videos, in collaboration with Khan Academy, aim to fuel K-12 students’ interest in engineering and science. MIT Press Release
The UNESCO/COL OER Knowledge Cloud will greatly enhance research opportunities and access to knowledge and research on Open Educational Resources and related information by removing barriers, opening up scholarship and making research universally accessible. The OER Knowledge Cloud has been established to identify, collect, preserve and disseminate available documents of enduring value to researchers, industry, […]
Washington, DC (April 9, 2012) – The Consortium for School Networking (CoSN), today joined with 13 other leading education associations in releasing a new report aimed at helping inform and guide education decision makers as they revise policies related to the use of mobile technologies and social media in schools. The report, Making Progress: Rethinking […]
ree online courses for the masses are all the rage—and many are being run by start-ups hoping to profit by selling related materials and services. Jim Groom thinks that’s too commercial, so he’s raising money for the online course he co-teaches at the University of Mary Washington using Kickstarter, the popular “crowd funding” service.Wired CampusFull […]
Accelerating the adoption of mLearning: a call for collective and collaborative action [Open Access Paper].Perspectives from the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on ICT.Commonwealth of LearningDownload Paper
A consortium of DE Hub, the Australian Universities Quality Agency (AUQA) (now the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA)), The International Network for Quality Assurance Agencies in Higher Education (INQAAHE), and the Australasian Council on Open, Distance and ELearning (ACODE) has undertake a study of the regulatory frameworks for distance education (DE) in the […]
Arlington, VA, March 21, 2012 – This spring, PBS KIDS is partnering with the National Recreation and Park Association (NRPA), America’s largest association of state and local parks and recreation facilities, to encourage families to “Explore the Outdoors.” From March 26 through April 20, PBS will present four weeks of themed on-air programming and online […]
Effective Online Teaching & Training is a blog written by Dr. Marina Kostina. Dr. Kostina’s blog is e to “help you transcend the distance by creating powerful online programs and products that maintain personal connections while allowing you to help more people at the same time, and substantially grow and leverage your business.” I have […]
YouTube’s continuing effort to put more original videos online has expanded beyond high-profile celebrities and news outlets to include a university television station. In exchange for a $300,000 grant to the station to produce original videos, YouTube will try to recoup its investment using the oldest money-making tool in television: advertising.Wired CampusFull Article
