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What is the Future of Teaching?
According to the New York Times Bits blog, a recent study funded by the US Department of Education (PDF) found that on the whole, online learning environments actually led to higher tested performance than face-to-face learning environments. “On average, students in online learning conditions performed better than those receiving face-to-face instruction,” concluded the report’s authors in their key findings.
Participatory Learning | Active, self-directed learning
Join educator Bill Farren as he travels through four South American countries–three of them chosen by students. Class members will get to vote on what countries their teacher/guide visits and decide on the types of activities the class embarks on. Through their guide, students will interact with local people, ask them questions, request various media, and help solve real problems–all in an engaging format: participatory learning.
Who is it for?
Learners from all over the world: HS students, college students, homeschoolers, unschoolers, adult learners and classroom teachers: (HS or Univ) who’d like to enrich and connect their own class to this one.
End Times | The Daily Show | Comedy Central
The Daily Show investigates longevity of NY Times (with a humorous slant).
University of the People > Home
University of the People (UoPeople) is the world’s first tuition-free, online academic institution dedicated to the global advancement and democratization of higher education. The high-quality, low-cost and global pedagogical model embraces the worldwide presence of the Internet and dropping technology costs to bring collegiate level studies to even the poorest and most remote places on earth. With the support of respected academics, humanitarians and other visionaries, the UoPeople student body represents a new wave in global education.
A New High School in New York, With College Mixed In
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“People who say we have to dumb down just don’t get it,” Mr. Bloomberg said. “You raise the standards and people work up to those standards.”
Free Online Courses & Lectures from Great Universities (via Podcast and MP3) | Open Culture
Download free courses & lectures from some of the world’s leading universities, including Stanford, Yale, Berkeley, MIT, Oxford, Harvard and others.
These Lectures Are Gone in 60 Seconds - Chronicle.com
Take a 60-minute lecture. Cut the excess verbiage, do away with most of the details, and pare it down to key concepts and themes.
What's left? A "microlecture" over in as few as 60 seconds.
Education Week: Disruptive Innovation in Education
Transcript of interview with Clayton M. Christensen and Michael B Horn, authors of # Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns.
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The initial evidence suggests that, on average, students perform equally well if not better academically in an online-learning environment than a traditional one.
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Online learning can help break this apart if policy cooperates and moves us to a mastery-based system rather than one based on seat time.
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Top News - AASA hears what's about to disrupt schools
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Until now, it has been very expensive to teach to students' individual needs, he said--and yet, research shows that's how students learn best.
One reason online learning is attractive is because it allows for more of this customized approach to instruction than can be found in many classrooms.
Top News - AASA hears what's about to disrupt schools
...half of all instruction will take place online within the next 10 years--and schools had better get into the online-learning market or risk losing their students to other providers.
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Disruptive innovations transform products or services into something so simple that anyone can use them, creating what Christensen called "asymmetric competition."
University of the People
University of the People (UoP) is the world’s first tuition-free, online academic institution and will open its virtual doors in April 2009. Founder and President Shai Reshef established UoP to combat the discrepancy between unprecedented access to the Internet, dropping technology costs and rising tuitions worldwide. UoP promises to revolutionize higher education by providing universal access to college studies-even in the poorest parts of the world.
EDUCATION 2020
EDUCATION 2020™ is a leading provider of one-on-one, online instruction in core and elective courses for students in grades 6-12. Designed to help students graduate from high school, EDUCATION 2020 courseware is aligned to state and national standards, and it combines the best of master degree teachers with the effective use of interactive technology. With over 10 years experience and implementations in school districts across the country, our instructional courseware has helped students at all skill levels realize their academic success.
Khan Academy
The Khan Academy is a not-for-profit organization with the mission of providing a high quality education to anyone, anywhere.
We have 700+ videos on YouTube covering everything from basic arithmetic and algebra to differential equations, physics, and finance which have been recorded by Salman Khan. He has also developed a free, adaptive math program available here.
ASCD Inservice: Why All Teachers Must Learn How to Teach Online
Susan Patrick, president and CEO of the International Association of K-12 Online Learning, talks about technology innovations in the classroom and why it is important for every teacher to learn how to teach online.
iNACOL - International Association for K-12 Online Learning
Mission: iNACOL strives to ensure all students have access to world-class education and quality online learning opportunities that prepare them for a lifetime for success.
Vision: Online learning is a powerful innovation that expands education opportunities. iNACOL supports access to high-quality online learning for all students.
Keystone High School, Online High School, Online High School Diploma
Our accredited online high school diploma prepares you for college or a career. You can enroll fulltime to earn a Keystone online high school diploma, or part time to transfer high school credits to your resident high school. Our online high school gives you flexibility and quality online high school courses.
Infinite Thinking Machine
Links for the role of cellphones in our future, ways to use them in education, and reminders of the need for increased discussions about safety around their use.
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