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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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    Providers of Free MOOCs Now Charge Employers for Access to Student Data
    Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
    December 5, 2012

    Providers of free massive open online courses, or MOOCs, are bringing in revenue by selling information about high-performing students to potential employers. Yesterday Coursera announced its employee-matching service, called Coursera Career Services, and some high-profile tech companies–including Facebook and Twitter–already have signed up. Coursera stresses that the program is and opt-in service on the student side. Udacity, another company that provides free online courses, offers a similar service.

      Related to: E-Learning, Higher Education, ICT in Education, Open Educational Resources, Teaching & Learning
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    Wellesley to Offer MOOCs on edX
    Source: The Washington Post
    December 5, 2012

    Wellesley, a prestigious women’s college located in Massachusetts (U.S.), has joined edX, a nonprofit venture offering free online higher education in the form of massive open online courses, or MOOCs. Wellesley, along with University of Texas, which joined edX in October, brings the count of participating institutions to five, including UC Berkeley, Harvard, and MIT. Wellesley will offer four courses on the MOOC platform starting in fall 2013.

      Related to: E-Learning, Higher Education, ICT in Education, Open Educational Resources, Teaching & Learning
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    OpenStax College Publishes First iBooks Textbook
    Source: Rice University
    December 4, 2012

    Rice University-based publisher OpenStax College has published College Physics, its first iBooks textbook, featuring interactive graphics, videos, quizzes, demos, and other added engaging options that enable immersive learning. The OER publisher plans to create iBooks versions of additional textbooks for other heavily attended college courses, including Biology, Concepts of Biology, and Anatomy and Physiology.

      Related to: Assessment & Curriculum, Higher Education, ICT in Education, Open Educational Resources, Teaching & Learning
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    Free Online Courses to Be Evaluated for Possible College Credit
    Source: The New York Times
    November 13, 2012

    Today, the American Council on Education, the leading umbrella group for higher education, and Coursera, a Silicon Valley provider of massive open online courses (MOOCs), announced a pilot project to determine whether some MOOC offerings are similar enough to traditional college courses that they should be eligible for credit. The council’s credit evaluation process will begin early next year, using faculty teams to assess how much students who successfully complete Coursera MOOCs…

      Related to: E-Learning, Higher Education, ICT in Education, Open Educational Resources, Teaching & Learning
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    New Initiative Targets Accessible Open Resources
    Source: eCampus News
    November 9, 2012

    Postsecondary educators report growing challenges to implementing open educational resources (OER), the most problematic being time loss spent combing multiple sources for supplemental educational material. In response this challenge, Pearson has teamed with nonprofit Gooru, a search engine for learning materials, to create Project Blue Sky, a cloud-based content service that makes OER more accessible.  “Project Blue Sky is a service that enables academics to search for and curate OER material in…

      Related to: Higher Education, ICT in Education, Open Educational Resources, Teaching & Learning, Tech-driven Innovation
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    Coursera Continues Ambitious Expansion
    Source: Inside Higher Ed
    September 20, 2012

    Coursera, a leading provider of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), has announced agreements with 16 new universities to help in course production. This move more than doubles Coursera’s number of institutional partners and pushes its course count to near 200. The new partners include Wesleyan University, the first liberal arts college to step into the MOOC arena, as well as Berklee College of Music, the first music school. Coursera already boasts…

      Related to: E-Learning, Higher Education, ICT in Education, Open Educational Resources, Teaching & Learning
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    Stanford Releases New Open-Source Online-Education Platform
    Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
    September 13, 2012

    Stanford University is continuing a high-profile push into online education with a new open-source platform called Class2Go, which will host two massive open online courses (MOOCs) beginning this October. According to Jane Manning, Class2Go product manager, the idea for the software started with a six-member team in Stanford’s computer-science department. The team built Class2Go using code from Stanford’s Courseware course-hosting platform, a similar platform from the nonprofit Khan Academy, and software for integrated online classroom…

      Related to: E-Learning, Higher Education, ICT in Education, Open Educational Resources, Teaching & Learning
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    Google Releases Open-Source Online-Education Software
    Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
    September 13, 2012

    Google has taken what its officials call an “experimental first step” into online education, releasing open-source software called Course Builder with the hope that universities will use it to deliver free online courses. Google says it is in talks with edX—a partnership among Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the University of California at Berkeley to offer free online courses. A post on Google’s research blog cites nine universities interested in using the platform,…

      Related to: E-Learning, Higher Education, ICT in Education, Open Educational Resources, Teaching & Learning
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