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Robert Stephenson discusses how free/open source software (FOSS) communities can provide a model for developing, sharing, using, and improving courseware. As FOSS demonstrates, bottom-up approaches to community building are more effective than top-down approaches, and an active community of practice is the key to success. Similarly, as envisioned by Stephenson, an open course community is […]
The shift toward skills-based jobs is part of a workforce evolution that demands organizations take a fresh look at the traditional “apprenticeship†model to improve worker performance. For centuries, the apprenticeship model enabled individuals to learn a trade or skill under the supervision of a master who shaped individual behavior to achieve the desired results.Read […]
Online tuitions by Indian teachers to American children has come under the US Government scanner after a landmark judgement by the New York Education Department, wherein the department has cancelled the contract of an American tutoring company that was using 250 online Indian teachers. The sole reason being that long distance teachers cannot be subjected […]
The leaders of higher education’s main technology association have written a powerfully worded letter urging Blackboard to relinquish the rights it gained under a controversial patent of online learning technologies in the public domain and to drop a patent infringement lawsuit it filed in August against a Canadian competitor, Desire2LearnRead the Full Story
Total Grant Aid Increased Last Year, But Pell Grants DeclinedRead the Full Story
U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings today released the following statement regarding the College Board’s annual analysis on the cost of colleges and universities and student financial aidRead the Full Story
The real star at an Oct. 19 lecture by Nicholas Negroponte was not the Media Lab co-founder and computer-aided design pioneer himself but what he brought to the Department of Architecture classroom at MIT–a model from his One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project.Read the Full Story
A survey at FindTheRightSchool.com suggests that students who have enrolled or plan to enroll in an academic program researched an average of 3.4 schools, with 38 percent of all students researching five or more. With young adults integrating the Internet into their daily lives and the increase in online education opportunities, one-stop educational resources like […]
(AP) PALM DESERT State and local leaders celebrated Monday a new $3.4 million, 400-mile broadband connection between the Coachella Valley and the California Research & Education Network and said it will help train hundreds of students. Read the Full Story