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Some producers of free e-textbooks have had trouble persuading professors to adopt them. So one backer of “open-source textbooks” has decided to sell its titles on Chegg, an online textbook retailer, for a small fee in hopes of reaching a wider audience. Wired Campus Full Article
Media Contact Jason Amos Phone: 202-828-0828 E-mail: jamos@all4ed.org One Month Until Students, Teachers, and Administrators Gather with Peers from Around the Nation to Explore How Digital Learning Is Changing Education; More than 16,000 Teachers, Forty-Four States and DC Already Engaged WASHINGTON, D.C. – With less than one month until the second annual national Digital […]
Consumer Electronics Show kicks off in 2013 and Telecommunications Industry Association NOW sat down with Consumer Electronic Association President Gary Shapiro to answer some important questions about innovation and the network. Telecommunications Industry Association Watch the video
MOOCs may have snared most of the headlines, but traditional, credit-based online learning continued to chug along just fine last year, thank you very much. Inside Higher Ed Full Article
Educators and administrators are collecting an enormous amount of data about the progress of their students and schools. Now that this information has been collected, how can it be used to improve education? eSchool News Full Article
By: Farhad (Fred) Saba, Ph. D. Founder and Editor, Distance-Educator.com Distance education is a post industrial endeavor. It defies the mechanical rules of the separation of the learner and the instructor by space and time. It transcends these two dimensions and brings the learner and instructor into a virtual space in which direct communication and […]
More than a third of the poorest children do not have the internet at home and a similar number do not have a computer, official figures suggest. BBC Full Article
by Donovan Jackson Air University Public Affairs 1/4/2013 – MAXWELL AIR FORCE BASE, Ala. — As the new year unfolds, technological advancements combined with traditional learning methods are continuing to be applied at Maxwell, which will assist in the advancement of Airmen education. Emerging technologies permit Maxwell the ability to utilize new software in a way that can speed […]
To meet the demands of the complex, rapidly changing leadership landscape faced by today’s librarians, USC has announced a new online master’s degree of management in library and information science (MMLIS) to launch in May. Developed by the USC Libraries in partnership with the USC Marshall School of Business, the MMLIS is one of the […]
Can online graphic novels help teenagers cope with difficult social situations? Are 3-D technologies a tool for helping English-learners acquire language skills outside traditional educational settings? And what about the potential for mobile apps that let students manipulate on-screen images with their fingers to help them learn fractions? Education Week Full Article