Thinking Out Loud: A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Classroom
The great thing about experiments, a professor of mine once told me, “is that they always work.”Read the Full Story
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UC [University of California] College Prep Online expands to operate online charter schools
UC College Prep Online (UCCP), based at UCSC, recently received a three-year $550,000 grant from the California Department of Education’s Public Charter Schools Grant Program to develop online schools in Imperial, Mendocino, and Butte Counties.Read the Full Story
World Campus student overcomes obstacles to graduate this weekend
However, her life was changed forever in September 1996 when she fell and broke her neck. She became a quadriplegic at age 27. Despite having her life turned upside down, McKee will be graduating this Saturday from Penn State with a bachelor’s degree in letters, arts and sciences.Read the Full Story
Distance education offers four-year undergraduate and graduate degrees
Among those graduates were 10 teachers in the Grants/Cibola County Schools who have completed their Master of Arts in Education or will have completed it by this summer.Read the Full Story
Vantage Learning to Deliver More Than 22 Million Student Assessments Online in 2005
NEWTOWN, Pa., May 9 /PRNewswire/ — Vantage Learning (http://www.vantagelearning.com/), the world’s leading provider of online essay scoring technologies, today announced that it expects to deliver more than 22 million tests during the 2005 calendar year.Read the Full Story
Now grading your student essay — a computer
Students in Brent’s Introduction to Sociology course at the University of Missouri-Columbia now submit drafts through the SAGrader software he designed. It counts the number of points he wanted his students to include and analyzes how well concepts are explained.Read the Full Story
Web site aids class project: Spend $50,000 on local schools
“Deaf students! If they can’t hear, we want them to at least see,” 17-year-old Quetzabel Conrique said Tuesday as she read a teacher’s application for PowerPoint software and an LCD projector worth $2,500.Read the Full Story
Open source could slash school IT bills, says government
The research, carried out by the British Educational Communications and Technology Association (BECTA), concluded that primary schools could cut computer costs by nearly half if they stopped buying, operating and supporting products from software vendors such as Microsoft, according to the Times Educational Supplement.Read the Full Story
Report: State ranks near bottom in educational technology
That surprised technology coordinator James Sowell, who came from computer-rich J.S. Clark Magnet School in Monroe. Computers in Sunset Acres’ classrooms were too old to support the Internet.Read the Full Story
Lessons Learned by Comparing On-line Education Strategies Across Disciplines
This paper presents four brief case studies in the disciplines of computer science and social work. Lessons learned by comparing these diverse experiences are discussed, including creating a community of learners, supporting asynchronous student communication, using synchronous on-line meetings, and providing social support.Read the Full Story