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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
Large-scale open education initiatives, like M.I.T.’s OpenCourseWare or Rice University’s Connexions, have the potential to change the landscape of higher education by creating a learning community that spreads beyond the walls of the university, providing students and faculty with free, high-quality resources and materials from diverse sources. Yet with all that promise, wide-scale adoption of […]
Colleges consider the pros and cons of Pinterest, the fast-growing, image-based social media website, as a marketing platform.Inside Higher EdFull Story
A report by the 21st Century Commission on the Future of Community Colleges.American Association of Community CollegesDownload Report
In April of 2010, our Open Government Task Force assembled the Department’s first comprehensive Open Government Plan. Two years later, we’ve met many of our objectives and started new initiatives since the first 2010 release. This is our April 2012 update to our Open Government Plan.US Department of Education Press Release
Mobile learning and the ability to give students anytime, anywhere access to school resources are high on every educator’s list, but the technology brings with it valid concerns—including access for students from different economic backgrounds, school bandwidth capability, and network security.eSchool NewsFull Article
The most provocative aspect of massively open online courses, or MOOCs, is how massive they can be. Last fall, several Stanford professors drew nearly 200,000 students to a series of free computer science courses, an experiment that spawned two companies. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology opened its first massive online engineering course this spring to […]
In his inauguration address in September 2005, then-University of Illinois President B. Joseph White first introduced the concept of a fourth, virtual campus to the university community. Could the university create something that would combine the academic quality of the University of Illinois with the user-friendliness of the University of Phoenix?The News GazetteFull Article
CAMBRIDGE, ENGLAND — This past year has been a time of signs and wonders for the open educational resources movement, which pushes for free public access to educational materials. The New York Times Full Article