02/20/2012

Despite lack of the internet, prisoners can study via distance learning, but there are many hurdles to leap.

"When I was sentenced to 10 years, I was determined that I'd get something out of it and that I'd educate myself to a level where I could do a job I wanted to, with young people, when I
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01/31/2012

The European leader of e-learning solutions providers unveils the results of a survey that sheds light on the place of e-learning within training strategy and gives a better understanding of its application. The results of the first barometer on the use of e-learning in Europe*, conducted by CrossKnowl
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01/24/2012

The concept behind Skillshare is simple: empower everyone to teach anything, anywhere. And sometimes it’s the simplest ideas that have the greatest long-term impact. The Skillshare philosophy is that everyone has something valuable to teach. Skillshare.com provides countless opportunities to enr
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01/20/2012

Apple’s digital textbook venture, launched yesterday in New York, is just the latest attempt to bridge a yawning gulf between technology and learning. It’s still the beginning. The gulf is so large, it will take decades and thousands of experiments to cross. But we’ve begun, and things will move f
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01/16/2012

Bertelsmann is making its long-awaited foray into education as anchor-investor in a $100m fund that aims to form partnerships with universities and vocational schools to offer online study and other types of courses worldwide.

The German media group has pu
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12/19/2011

MIT today announced the launch of an online learning initiative internally called “MITx.” MITx will offer a portfolio of MIT courses through an online interactive learning platform that will:

-organize and present course material to enable students to learn at their own pace

12/21/2011

For Wall Street Occupiers or other decriers of the “social injustice” of college tuition, here’s a curveball bound to scramble your worldview: a totally free college education regardless of your academic performance or background.  The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) will announce
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12/06/2011

This January 2012, you can attend Stanford’s Technology Entrepreneurship class from the comfort of home, online! This class is for technology entrepreneurs and provides a combination of in-depth case studies and research on the entrepreneurial process. The professor is Chuck Eesley from Stanfor
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12/02/2011

Education is undergoing a dramatic wave of digital innovation that will make learning vastly different for students and curious adults over the next five to ten years. Many of the changes are coming from outside the system, recognized innovators like Sal Khan, a former hedge fund analyst whose 2,700 fre
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11/20/2011

I am co-director of the Babson Survey Research Group which, for the last nine years, has published a survey of online education in the United States. It has yet to see any clear indication of an overall slowdown in the growth of online education but there are changes in the differential growth of progra
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