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Education Leaders Discuss Online Learning in K-12 at VSS
More than 1,800 education leaders across the country, including teachers, administrators and policymakers, convene in Indianapolis November 9-11, 2011 for the Virtual School Symposium (VSS), an annual conference hosted by the International Association for K-12 Online Learning (iNACOL).
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Infographic: Best Web Presence = Best School Quality
Best Education Sites published a compelling infographic recently that takes a close look at the correlation between a school, college or university's web presence and its overall quality. The infographic "Best Education Sites: The Schools that Rule the Web," says that the Internet - as expected - is revolutionizing education.
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Personal Digital Learning is Changing the World
Personal digital learning is providing three primary benefits, as outlined in my new book, Getting Smart: How Digital Learning is Changing the World. The first benefit is customized learning. Learning online created the ability to vary rate, time, and location.
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Review: Virtual Labs Provide Increased Access to Learning On a Budget
How many high school, college and university science labs have the opportunity to allow all of its students to experiment with some of the world's most dangerous bacteria, toxic chemicals or explosive materials on the most sophisticated equipment available to science? The answer: very few if not none. That's where Late Nite Labs comes in.
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Open, Shared, and Collaborative
“EduCause is the annual Woodstock of higher education,” wrote James Marshall Crotty for Forbes. “With a particular emphasis on “the intelligent use of information technology” in the robust arena of online education.” Crotty quoted Don Kilburn of Pearson that: “The next…
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Filling the College Prep Gap
Getting to college is complicated. The ‘what to do after high school’ decision is the most consequential decision of a young person’s life but it usually made with little data and inadequate preparation. Three startups are attempting to bridge the college prep gap. Kashi Tahir from Envictus made…
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Tertiary Education in the US is Broken
Nicholas Kristof After the host announced that student debt in the U.S. topped $1 trillion, columnist Nicholas Kristof told CNN this morning that “Tertiary education in the US is broken.” Sal Khan explained how the old formula—get a degree, get a good job, have a good life—is…
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States and Districts Require Online Learning
Education Week reported this Monday that Tennessee and a handful of other states now require all students take at least one class online in forward-thinking policies to ready kids for the future.
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Indiana School District Replaces Textbooks With 1:1 Laptop Program
The New York Times published an article this week on the traditional Indiana School District's switch to a 1:1 laptop program, which replaced textbooks for 2,600 students in Muster, Ind. The school district replaced all its math and science textbooks for students in grades 5-12 with a $1.1 million project for digital learning infrastructure in a new 1:1 laptop program.