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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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    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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    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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    Saudi E-University Aims for 100,000 Students over 10 Years
    Source: Saudi Gazette
    June 18, 2012

    The Saudi Electronic University, Saudi Arabia’s first government e-university, hopes to attract 100,000 students over the next 10 years. Designed to substitute off-campus learning provided by Saudi universities, the services it renders will be more flexible in order to adapt to students’ life, work, and location conditions. The university, which will start to receive admission applications from July 25, expects 6,500 students–at least 60% of them women–to enroll in the…

      Related to: E-Learning, Higher Education, ICT in Education, Policy & Governance, Teaching & Learning
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    Australia’s New Civics Curriculum Calls for Students to Be Citizens of the Web
    Source: The Sydney Morning Herald
    June 5, 2012

    Australia’s students will be encouraged to use Twitter, Facebook, and blogs as study tools as part of the new Civics and Citizenship national curriculum. The draft curriculum was released for public consultation yesterday. If it is adopted, students would be taught skills including research, analysis and synthesis, collaborative problem-solving and decision-making, and communication. Communication skills would include “using both traditional and social media and the Internet in socially constructive ways as communication…

      Related to: Assessment & Curriculum, ICT in Education, Media Literacy, Teaching & Learning
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    School Administrators Are More Open to Mobile Devices
    Source: Converge
    May 29, 2012

    District administrators and principals own more smartphones and tablets than the general U.S. adult population, according to Project Tomorrow’s most recent “Speak Up 2011″ report. The study included responses from 814 district and 3,319 school administrators, noting that more than 70% of school administrators own smartphones (compared with 46% of adults across the U.S.). And of the district administrators with smartphones or tablets, 41% are evaluating “Bring Your Own Technology” initiatives,…

      Related to: ICT in Education, Primary/Secondary Education, Teaching & Learning
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    Google Funds Computer Teachers, Raspberry Pis in England
    Source: BBC News
    May 29, 2012

    Dozens of teachers specializing in computer science will work in English schools thanks to a partnership between Google and the charity Teach First–a charity that puts exceptional graduates on a six-week training program before deploying them to schools where they teach classes over a two-year period. Google’s chairman Eric Schmidt said money would also be provided to buy “teaching aids, such as Raspberry Pis or Arduino starter kits.” Schmidt previously had criticized…

      Related to: ICT in Education, Teaching & Learning
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    Grockit Wants to Build a Pinterest for Learning
    Source: Mashable
    May 29, 2012

    The founders of social test-preparation startup Grockit plan to reconfigure online content such as YouTube videos, Wikipedia entries, and e-books into ordered lesson plans. Their new product, Learnist, works a bit like a Pinterest for learning–users compile content pieces onto a board (or “learning”), suggesting a path in which other users may consume each content component. Learners can check off each component as they go or “re-add” it to one of their own…

      Related to: ICT in Education, Social Media, Teaching & Learning
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