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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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    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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    Amid Plagiarism Reports, Coursera Adds Honor-Code Reminders
    Source: GigaOM
    August 23, 2012

    Following a report of numerous plagiarism incidences by students taking free online college classes via Coursera, the startup has added honor-code reminders that students must acknowledge before submitting some assignments. Coursera cofounder Daphne Koller said the company currently is assessing the scale of the problem and is considering using plagiarism-detection tools. Coursera recently announced that it has enrolled more than one million students from around the world.  

      Related to: E-Learning, Higher Education, Open Educational Resources, Teaching & Learning
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    Virtual Schools Not Passing the Test
    Source: NEA Today
    July 26, 2012

    According to a new study from the National Education Policy Center (U.S.), children who enroll in a K12 Inc. cyberschool are more likely to fall behind in reading and math, move between schools or leave school altogether. This research is important as K12 Inc. is the nation’s largest virtual school company, operating 48 full-time virtual schools in 2011-12 and providing services and support to dozens of other schools that offer online…

      Related to: Assessment & Curriculum, E-Learning, ICT in Education, Policy & Governance, Primary/Secondary Education, Research, 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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    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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    Gates Foundation Gives $9 Million in Grants to Support “Breaktrough” Higher-Ed Models
    Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
    June 19, 2012

    The Gates Foundation today announced $9 million in grants to support innovative delivery models in higher education. Among the awards is the foundation’s first contribution to Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). Specifically, the foundation is giving $1 million to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for its MITx project. The grant focuses on an effort to help colleges serving low-income students use a flipped-classroom approach in an official course based on…

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