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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...

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...

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...

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/...

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...

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...

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...

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…
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Australian Unis Urges to Seek Private Partners in Online Asia Push

Source: The Australian

November 8, 2012

According to Group of Eight executive director Michael Gallagher, Australian universities should be looking to partner with private providers and technology companies in order to capitalize on the potential of online education to meet Asia’s growing demand for higher ed. Gallagher said the onshore international student market in Australia had reached saturation point, and that the growth opportunity was now online.
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Record Shares of U.S. Young Adults Have Finished Both High School and College

Source: Pew Research Center

November 6, 2012

Record shares of young adults in the U.S. are completing high school, going to college, and finishing college according to a Pew Research Center analysis of newly available census data. In 2012, for the first time ever, one-third of the nation’s 25- to 29-year-olds have completed at least a bachelor’s degree. These across-the-board increases have occurred despite dramatic immigration-driven changes in the racial and ethnic composition of college-age young adults, a…
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Vietnam to Revoke Licenses of Four Educational Institutions

Source: OpenEqualFree.org

November 6, 2012

The Vietnamese Ministry of Education and Training has called for a suspension of licenses for four educational institutions that offered illegal undergraduate courses. Although the institutions are authorized to provide vocational training only, they advertised and enrolled students in unofficial foreign programs and educational courses. Violators include the Institute of Finance and Administration, along with three Singapore-owned firms: the Education and Research Center Institute in Vietnam, Informatics & Business Management…
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New UNESCO Interactive Map Shows Global Mobility of Higher-Ed Students

Source: University World News

November 5, 2012

East Asia and the Pacific is the largest source of international students, representing 28% of the world’s 3.6 million mobile students in 2010. Central Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa have the most mobile students, and several countries have more students abroad than at home. These facts are highlighted in a new Global Flow of Tertiary-level Students interactive map published by the UNESCO Institute of Statistics (UIS). “The surge in internationally mobile students reflects the…
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Thousands of Students in Spain Protest Education Spending Cuts

Source: OpenEqualFree.org

November 1, 2012

In Spain, the government recently announced plans to cut spending on education, ultimately raising public university feeds while reducing faculty counts, classrooms counts, scholarships, and grants. This action caused thousands of students to hold a nationwide protest against the cuts. Led by the Students’ Union, the demonstration included students from secondary schools and universities. These protesters argue that the cuts put students at a greater risk of unemployment in the…
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AASCU Reports: Colleges Must Help Prepare Students for Higher Education

Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education

October 30, 2012

A new report from the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU) recommends that higher-education institutions must take a more direct role in elementary and secondary education to ensure that incoming students are college ready. The report calls on its member campuses to begin preparing students as early as preschool, helping children to acquire the building blocks of a successful academic career. In addition, to have the greatest impact, the…
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Higher-Ed Faculty: Stressed, Focused on Teaching, Undeterred by Long Odds

Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education

October 29, 2012

According to a national survey conducted by the Higher Education Research Institute, U.S. faculty members are feeling stressed out and strapped for time to teach, although many of the most economically vulnerable professors remain improbably hopeful about career prospects This latest edition of the survey, which is conducted every three years, was administered during the 2010-11 academic year to 23,824 full-time and 3,547 part-time faculty who teach undergraduates at four-year institutions.
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