11/16/2012

Despite recent advances being made in education technology, right now students actually have dwindling options when it comes to higher education. Between the decline of education budgets and rising tuition, there seem to be fewer opportunities and more obstacles for students to complete a degree program.  
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11/15/2012

The government spends millions of dollars and countless hours trying to fix our stumbling education system, progress is slow, and lasting change seems unlikely. Higher education is expensive, and only getting more so.

Many students face barriers to getting the education they really want — but toda
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11/13/2012

Online college-level education is booming, with Silicon Valley’s Coursera and its 1.8 million enrollees leading the way. Early versions haven’t provided  transferable college credit at real-world universities. But Courera hopes to eliminate that gap — through the unusual method of having studen
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11/05/2012

Still think college degrees earned online are universally cheaper and less esteemed in the job market than traditional ones? In the case of graduate degrees offered by universities collaborating with a company called 2U, you’d be dead wrong.

Karla Pasos paid $34,000 tuition—the same as her
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11/02/2012

The headquarters of what has rapidly become the largest school in the world, at 10 million students strong, is stuffed into a few large communal rooms in a decaying 1960s office building hard by the commuter rail tracks in Mountain View, Calif. Despite the cramped, dowdy circumstances, youthful optimism
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10/31/2012

Udacity, a pioneer of free online education discussed in recent Crotty posts, yesterday announced a partnership with translation platform Amara to translate and subtitle more than 5,000 of its course videos, according to an Amara press release.  It sounds very inside baseball, but the partnership
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10/23/2012

Distance learning is increasingly popular and one of the reasons is the growing number of free courses being offered online.

Daniel Conn left school at 18 and started work as an administrator for Mercedes-Benz near his home in Brighton. He soon wished he hadn't spurned the idea of going to unive
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10/09/2012

The education system in India has come a long way of evolution – from the vedic days dating back to around 1700 BC to today’s computer age and e-learning. Throughout, Indian tradition has always accorded special importance to education.

The Vedic Tradition

The Vedas were the main repo
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09/19/2012

If you’re looking to develop new skills for work or simply learn for the sake of learning, you’ll have plenty of options as more and more universities are making their courses available online, for free. Online education platform Coursera has added 17 new universities to its ranks, doubling
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09/19/2012

Offerings of free online courses from top universities are expanding rapidly. The classes, known as “massive open online courses,” or MOOCs, are free for anyone who has an internet connection. They are opening up the high-priced world of study at some of the world’s top colleges and universities and
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