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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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• Chinese Flock to U.S. for Further Education

  Source: Source > People's Daily

  November 17, 2010

  Thanks to strong economic growth and a growing middle class, China has surpassed India for the first time this decade to become the country that sends the most students to the U.S., according to the annual report the Institute of International Education (IIE) released this week. The number of Chinese students in the U.S.

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• Enrollment in Online Courses Increases at the Highest Rate Ever

  Source: Source > The Chronicle of Higher Education

  November 16, 2010

  According to Sloan Consortium’s new Class Differences report, based on an annual survey of 2,600 higher-education institutions, U.S.

  Related to: E-Learning, ICT in Education, Research, Teaching & Learning

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• Community Colleges Must Focus on Quality of Learning, Report Says

  Source: Source > The Chronicle of Higher Education

  November 11, 2010

  According to a report released this week by the Center for Community College Student Engagement–“The Heart of Student Success”–increasing college completion is meaningless unless certificates and degrees represent real learning for 21st-century success, which community colleges must work harder to ensure. 

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• Only 31% of High School Teachers Think Graduates Are Ready for College

  Source: Source > Care2

  November 11, 2010

  While 68% of graduating high school seniors in the U.S.

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• Twitter Increases Student Engagement

  Source: Source > Mashable

  November 11, 2010

  According to a study based on the National Survey of Student Engagement, college students who were asked to contribute to class discussions and complete assignments using Twitter increased their engagement over a semester more than twice as much as a control group. In addition to showing more than twice the improvement in engagement than the control group, the students who used Twitter also achieved on average a .5 point increase in their overall GPA for the semester. The study will be published next week in the Journal of Computer Assisted Learning. 

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• Universities Commit to Open-Access Journal Movement

  Source: Source > eCampus News

  October 21, 2010

  A dozen major universities have signed the Compact for Open Access Publishing Equity (COPE), making their academic research available free of charge online, forgoing the expensive subscriptions to scholarly journals that can cost campuses thousands annually and create barriers to professors’ research being widely read. The U.S.

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• 1:1 Computing Programs on the Rise, with Netbooks Leading Adoption

  Source: Source > THE Journal

  October 19, 2010

  Tablets and netbooks are making significant inroads into K-12 education.

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• College Dropouts Cost U.S. Taxpayers Billions

  Source: Source > The Chronicle of Higher Education

  October 11, 2010

  According to a new report from the American Institutes for Research, state and federal governments spent an estimated $9 billion between 2003 and 2008 on students who dropped out of college during their freshman year. Since the report considered only first-time, full-time freshmen at four-year colleges, the $9 billion total is just a portion of the overall cost of dropouts; however, because the report is based on data from the U.S.

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