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TEDxNYED 2013 Inside-Outside

April 27, 2013

TEDxNYED is a New York City-based TEDx event focused on education. The theme of this year’s TEDxNYED is Inside-Outside, a discussion about education from both inside...

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The 2013 School Leadership Summit

March 28, 2013

The Technology Information Center for Administrative Leadership (TICAL) and Steve Hargadon are pleased to announce the inaugural virtual and worldwide School Leadership Summit, Thursday, March...

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Designing Modern Learning Environments: Design Thinking for Education Leaders Hangout

February 20, 2013

GETideas.org seeks to help education leaders understand the impact of environment on learning and to leverage design when attempting to transform education systems. This Google...

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Midwest Educational Technology Conference (METC)

February 11 - February 13, 2013

  Midwest Education Technology Conference February 11-13, 2013 St. Charles Convention CenterSt. Louis, Missouri http://2013.metcconference.org/...

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U.S. Higher Education Leaders Call for Bold Action on Attainment

January 24, 2013

In an open letter released yesterday, leading U.S. college and university presidents called upon their colleagues to make retention and completion a critical priority to stem...

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Bringing It All Together: Empowering Education Leaders to Innovate Hangout

January 30, 2013

GETideas.org hosts this GooglePlus hangout to engage with noted thought leaders on how to help educators innovate. The discussion includes a dialogue on how innovation in...

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Public Universities to Offer Free Online Classes for Credit

January 23, 2013

In an arrangement with commercial company Academic Partnerships, dozens of public universities plan to offer an introductory online course free and for credit to anyone...

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State Spending on U.S. Higher Education Rebounds in Most States after Years of Decline

January 22, 2013

After falling nearly 11% since the 2008 fiscal year, state appropriations for U.S. higher education are on the rise in most states. Long-term effects of...

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    Profits, Not Student Success, Drive Executive Pay at U.S. For-Profit Colleges
    Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
    July 30, 2012

    U.S. Representative Elijah Cummings has released findings indicating that executive pay at for-profit colleges is based “predominantly on the profitability of their companies rather than the success of their students.” Rep. Cummings said he found it particularly troubling that “some companies provided no documents indicating any link whatsoever between corporate pay and student achievement.” Rep. Cummings’ inquiry focused on the pay practices at 13 publicly traded higher-education companies whose billions…

      Related to: Education Reform, Higher Education, Policy & Governance, Teaching & Learning
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    UC Berkeley Joins edX
    Source: Inside Higher Ed
    July 24, 2012

    The University of California at Berkeley is joining edX, which was formed recently by Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to offer massively open online courses (MOOCs). The Berkeley announcement comes just a week after Coursera, another provider of MOOCs by elite universities, announced a major expansion. In a statement explaining the choice of edX, Berkeley Chancellor Robert J. Birgeneau noted the nonprofit model at edX. 

      Related to: E-Learning, Higher Education, ICT in Education, Open Educational Resources, Teaching & Learning
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    New Zealand College Experiments with Bring Your Own Tech
    Source: EducationNews.org
    July 24, 2012

    Students at Garin college in Nelson, New Zealand, will be required to bring their own digital devices to class starting next year. The school has drawn up a list of acceptable computers–from netbooks to laptops to iPads–and hopes to accommodate students from diverse income backgrounds. School principal John Boyce explained that the decision to make such devices mandatory came as a result of three years of research and analysis, including…

      Related to: Higher Education, ICT in Education
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    Multibillion-Dollar Program Has Little Effect at German Universities
    Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
    July 23, 2012

    Eight years ago, Germany announced the Excellence Initiative, under which the country’s universities would compete for several billion dollars in public funds to spur national and global recognition for the schools. Since then, the German government has injected $2.3 billion into some 40 universities–and while the effort has received some praise, a recent report from Berlin’s Social Science Research Center (WZB) raises key questions about the program, saying it has failed to…

      Related to: Higher Education, Policy & Governance, Teaching & Learning
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    One-Third of U.S. Colleges Are on Financially “Unsustainable”
    Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
    July 23, 2012

    A Bain & Company analysis of nearly 1,700 public and private nonprofit colleges finds that one-third of the institutions have been on an “unsustainable financial path” in recent years, and an additional 28% are “at risk of slipping into an unsustainable condition.” Bain and Sterling Partners, a private-equity firm, collaborated on the project. They have published their findings on a publicly available interactive website that allows users to type in the name…

      Related to: Higher Education, Research, Teaching & Learning
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    European Union Will Require Open-Access Publishing
    Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
    July 20, 2012

    The European Union plans to require open-access publishing for research that it finances beginning in 2014. The announcement came from the European Commission, executive arm of the 27-nation bloc. The British government also announced that it would require open-access publishing for research that it funds. 

      Related to: Higher Education, Policy & Governance, Research, Teaching & Learning
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    Top Universities Join Free Online Teaching Platform
    Source: The Guardian
    July 17, 2012

    Twelve leading universities in the U.S. and Europe have joined Coursera, an Internet platform created by two Stanford University scientists that provides free online access to classes designed by academics at elite institutions. Coursera’s new participants include the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Johns Hopkins University, and the University of California at San Francisco in the U.S., as well as Edinburgh University in Scotland and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology…

      Related to: E-Learning, Higher Education, ICT in Education, Teaching & Learning
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    China and India to Produce 40% of World’s University Graduates by 2020
    Source: University World News
    July 12, 2012

    According to data released by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), 40% of the world’s university graduates will come from just two countries–China and India–by 2020. The report also predicts a stagnating graduation rate of approximately 25% for the U.S. and Europe combined. In addition, the OECD says that if current trends continue, the number of 25- to 34-year-olds from Argentina, Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, the Russian Federation, Saudi…

      Related to: Higher Education, Research, Teaching & Learning
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