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72% Of Professors Who Teach Online Courses Don’t Think Their Students Deserve Credit

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As reported on TechCrunch. by GREGORY FERENSTEIN This is not a good sign for online education: 72 percent of professors who have taught Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) don’t believe that students should get official college credit, even if they did well in the class. More importantly, these are the professors who voluntarily took time to teach online courses, which means the actual number of professors who discount the quality of MOOCs is probably much (much) higher.…

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NY approves Cornell Tech’s applied sciences campus on Roosevelt Island

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As reported on Engadget. By Nicole Lee While Cornell has given its researchers the resources to build spider-like robots andmove Pong paddles with the power of the mind, students more interested in the software side of engineering have not been getting as much love. That’s about to change, however, with the recent City Planning Commission approval of Cornell Tech, a project to build an applied sciences campus on New York City’s Roosevelt Island. Now the next step would be to…

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Teachers Are the Key to Everyone Learning to Code

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As reported on WebMonkey.com By Scott Gilbertson Code.org recently made a splash with its high-profile supporters — everyone from Bill Gates to Snoop Dogg have offered up their support for Code.org’s premise: that everyone should learn to code. While Code.org’s goals are admirable, the movie above spends near zero time talking about what might be the most important part of the equation: computer science teachers. The Code.org website has info for interested teachers, but the emphasis is still…

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Can the iPad Rescue a Struggling American Education System?

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As reported on Wired. BY CHRISTINA BONNINGTON Illustration: Alex Washburn/Wired. Photo: Kajojak/Flickr   Matthew Stoltzfus could never get his students to see chemistry like he sees chemistry until he added an iPad to his lesson plan. Stoltzfus, a chemistry professor at Ohio State University, struggled for years to bring complex chemical equations to life on the blackboard, but always saw students’ eyes glaze over. Then he added animations and interactive media to his general chemistry curriculum. Suddenly,…

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A School in the Cloud and the Future of Learning

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As reported on Wired. BY MICHAEL V. COPELAND Sugata Mitra, TED 2013. Photo: James Duncan Davidson Sugata Mitra is the kind of guy every kids wants to be their teacher. Unbelievably energized, always ready with a smile, and always ready to leave you and your classmates to your own devices.  Mitra calls his approach to education “self-organized learning.” At its core it’s all about sparking curiosity, about asking smart questions and then sitting back and letting kids…

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Computer Science Education Had A Good Day In America

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As reported on TechCrunch. by GREGORY FERENSTEIN America’s elite institutions came out in full force for computer science education. First, the House of Representatives voted to update its traditional students arts competition to include anationwide mobile apps competition. Then, to top off the day, the nation’s leading geeks, from Mark Zuckerberg to Bill Gates,helped launch a national nonprofit to encourage young programmers. For now, the congressional competition will include students from each congressional district and “initially focus on developing…

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Gates, Zuck and crew entice kids into programming through a short film

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As reported on Engadget. By Jon Fingas Kids in many parts of the world are growing up surrounded with technology, some from a very tender age. Many schools aren’t teaching much if any programming, though, which has led Code.org to make a short film spurring young techies into action. We have a hunch that it might work — the video has quite possibly the most star-studded collection of men and women explaining how they got into coding…

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With $11M From NEA, Comcast & Others, Quad Learning Wants To Create A More Affordable Track To Top-Tier Degrees

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As reported on TechCrunch. by RIP EMPSON Higher education in the U.S. is a hot mess. For decades, funding for public universities and colleges has been in steady decline, which, as spending continued, led to rising institutional debt and eventually reductions in faculty, courses, programs — you name it. To make up the difference, institutions have been jacking up tuition rates to the point that the cost of a college degree is now virtually unaffordable. Not…

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Online Education Is Replacing Physical Colleges At A Crazy Fast Pace

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As reported on TechCrunch. by GREGORY FERENSTEIN Educators knew the online revolution would eventually envelop the physical classroom, but a torrent of near-revolutionary developments in the past month are proving that change is coming quicker than anyone imagined. In just 30 days, the largest school system in the U.S. began offering credit for online courses, a major university began awarding degreeswithout any class time required, and scores of public universities are moving their courses online. The point at…

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Curbing The Cost Of College: Coursera Wins Approval To Offer Online Courses For Credit For Under $200

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As reported on TechCrunch. by RIP EMPSON Last year, the buzz around the potential of online courses (particularly MOOC platforms) reached new heights, and this year is already shaping up to be the one in which online course platforms and the startups that love them, make their big push for legitimacy. To wit: The year kicked off with the news that the largest university system in the world has partnered with Udacity to pilot low-cost, lower-division and remedial…

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