LMS Report: Big Push Towards Virtual Training
Nicole Fougere picks out some statistics about LMS usage in UK industry sectors. Looking at this data, we can see that companies in the UK have pushed over the 50% mark in terms of uptake. Virtual training lowers costs and makes channeling resources to employee questions easier. The same could happen for education institutions.
Please Turn On Your Cell Phone
Juliette LaMontagne has written a great blog post about portable computers and mobile devices in education. I am taking her post from her blog, "Learning Loam," and offering it for this audience, because I think it's worth reading.
Personalized Learning: Object, Lesson, Course & School
New tools & schools are making it easier to personalize learning
SKIL Chairman Advances "Total Education Solution"
Hundreds of millions of Indian students stand to benefit from increasing capital expenditure on education improvement in India. SKIL Chairman Nikhil Ghandi attempts to create a "total education solution" in the country with a 22% investment in Chennai-based Everonn Education. Here is an interview Ghandi did with Indian newspaper "The Economic Times."
Teaching the Tech Generation
South Carolina students now have the option to earn their high school diploma online. Check out this story from Lake City, South Carolina.
Mobile Education Uprising
Social media exemplifies the transformative properties of education. It's no surprise that online content plays and management systems that lean on the cloud computing technology top lists of ed tech trends to watch for the rest of 2010. Check out this list inside to find out where the next big moves will take education.
John Legend Starring in Ed Reform Role
Entertainer and brand-new EEP Board member John Legend joins Harlem Village Academies CEO Debra Kenny to discuss the changing landscape of education reform on Morning Joe this morning, with video.
Online High: A Student Perspective
Advancing the ability for teachers and students to use online learning only means that you will have a success on your hands. The question is, what do you do with all of those students who suddenly start to excel? Offer them more of what they want, to start.
Letter to Commissioner Mitchell Chester, Massachusetts
Susan Patrick, President of iNACOL, corrects the misperception held by Massachusetts Dept of Ed ESEd Commissioner Mitchell D. Chester that she recommended changes to "some of the worst policies for student access to K-12 online learning in the United States."
Project Foundry
Guest blogger Chad Sansing interviews Project Foundry founder Shane Krukowski.