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19 Dec 09

FreeHarvardEducation.com - The Boston Globe

  • “There’s a whole new raft of these companies out there,” Sullivan says. “It basically amounts to an online clearinghouse for stolen intellectual property.”
  • For his part, Pinker says he was excited about the interactive promise of the site’s online study groups but agnostic about the class notes aspect. “There’s nothing that I would say in class that I wouldn’t say in any other public forum, so I kind of had nothing to hide,” says Pinker.
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FreeHarvardEducation.com - The Boston Globe

  • The emergence of sites like Finalsclub is part of a larger incursion of the outside world into the university classroom: Students today can anonymously post videos of lectures to Youtube or report the details of a small seminar discussion on chat rooms that anyone can read. Universities, at least in some sense, are content providers, and the content that they provide - the lectures and course materials - is created for a sharply limited audience paying a lot of money. Record labels, newspapers, movie studios, and other content providers have been seismically shaken by the Web, and now universities are getting a glimpse of its disruptive potential.
  • But the debate over who gets to set the terms by which classroom information spreads is well underway: A lawsuit by a University of Florida professor against a for-profit note company is going forward, and academics around the country have begun to examine how much can, and should, be done to control the posting of notes, videos, recordings, and the like.
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FreeHarvardEducation.com - The Boston Globe

  • Finalsclub is not the first website to offer elite university course notes, for free, to a wider audience - other universities, most prominently MIT, have set up so-called open courseware sites of their own, and the largest dwarf Finalsclub’s offerings. Nor is the site the first to publish student lecture notes: A mini-industry of lecture note vendors has long existed around the campuses of large state universities, and it has migrated online in recent years.
  • But in combining the two - by relying on students, rather than professors, for material and then posting it for free - Finalsclub, along with a few larger sites like GradeGuru and StudyBlue, raise issues of their own. Because the site does not charge, the material Finalsclub posts is widely available, and, unlike with open courseware programs like MIT’s, Harvard has little say in the process.
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17 Dec 09

AFP: Mobile phone English lessons a hit in Bangladesh

  • DHAKA — Every morning, Ahmed Shariar Sarwar makes it his daily ritual to call number 3000 on his mobile phone to get lessons in English -- his passport to a better life in impoverished Bangladesh.
13 Dec 09

100 Incredible Lectures from the World’s Top Scientists | Best Colleges Online

  • Unless you’re enrolled at a top university or are an elite member of the science and engineering inner circle, you’re probably left out of most of the exciting research explored by the world’s greatest scientists. But thanks to the Internet, and our list of 100 incredible lectures, you’ve now got access to the cutting edge theories and projects that are changing the world.
12 Dec 09

Marginal Revolution: Online Education and the Market for Superstar Teachers

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  • I have argued that universities will move to a superstar market for teachers in which the very best teachers use on-line instruction and TAs to teach thousands of students at many different universities.  The full online model is not here yet but I see an increasing amount of evidence for the superstar model of teaching.  At GMU some of our best teachers are being recruited by other universities with very attractive offers and some of our most highly placed students have earned their positions through excellence in teaching rather than through the more traditional route of research.
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10 Dec 09

Accredited Online Universities Attract Students from Around the World | Online Universities

  • The first free online global university opened for business earlier this year, only requiring students to pay an enrollment and exam fee, costing around $30 for those students from impoverished countries.  Educating the younger generation is vital if we are to attempt to enlist change within these troubled areas of the world, and the vision of one Israeli entrepreneur has contributed to the change that is currently taking place.  The University of the People is still in its trial phase, but is expected to attract thousands of students within the next year of its existence, despite criticisms of its lack of payment for professors (attempting to indicate substandard teaching methods).


    However, despite the vast criticism that online schools have always faced, accredited online universities are on the rise, both in and out of Western nations.  The fact that students in India can now earn nearly any type of degree possible is going to be what lifts the country out of its drastic difference in wealth between the rich and the poor, toward a more substantial middle class.  This will be true for many other nations, as the world looks toward a more educated future.

50 Best Blogs for Special Ed Teachers | Online Universities

  • Working in Special Education means you get the opportunity to meet some amazing students with gifts that appear a bit differently than those of mainstream students, and usually in a more intimate setting. It also means you will deal with more paperwork, closer parental involvement, and a wider variety of teaching strategies. All of these unique situations present learning opportunities for you as a teacher. A great way to find ways to enhance your teaching and discover what others are doing is by reading blogs. The following 50 blogs provide tips and strategies, focus on assistive technology, explore specific learning challenges, share information about news, policy, and law, and more from other educators working in the field of Special Education.
06 Dec 09

Universities and Economic Growth

  • This article is about why educational performance is critical to a
    society's wealth, how the modern university is not appreciably
    improved over the template established in 1088, and proposes some
    simple changes that should greatly improve the effectiveness of
    undergraduate education.
  • all two minutes are taken up with writing (incorrectly; there is an
    unbalanced parenthesis) and asking if people can read his
    handwriting. [Compare to two minutes reading http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binomial_distribution.]

The 100 Best History Sites on the Web – Online Degree Programs.org: Top Online Degrees

  • No matter what era, civilization, country or conflict you want to learn about, you’re bound to find resources on the web to help you on your way. With pictures, interactive programs, primary sources and loads of information, these sites offers a wealth of information for history learners or teachers. Here are 100 of the top history sites on the web for finding resources on just about every part of history around the world.

100 Tips & Tools to Teach Your Child a Second Language | Online Universities

  • Research done over the last decade suggests people who speak more than one language tend to outperform monolinguists. Moreso, children who grow up bilingual have an easier time in school and make better grades. Why not do your child a favor and start her early? From the earliest days to high school and continued education, there is something you can do to give your child the multilingual advantage.

Selling Lesson Plans Online, Teachers Raise Cash and Questions - NYTimes.com

  • “Teachers swapping ideas with one another, that’s a great thing,” he said. “But somebody asking 75 cents for a word puzzle reduces the power of the learning community and is ultimately destructive to the profession.”
  • Teachers Pay Teachers, one of the largest such sites, with more than 200,000 registered users, has recorded $600,000 in sales since it was started in 2006 — $450,000 of that in the past year, said its founder, Paul Edelman, a former New York City teacher. The top seller, a high school English teacher in California, has made $36,000 in sales.
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02 Dec 09

50 Fascinating Lectures for Music Lovers | Online Universities

  • 50 Fascinating Lectures for Music Lovers


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    50 Fascinating Lectures for Music Lovers


    From Ludwig van Beethoven to Johann Sebastian Bach, most music lovers can appreciate the fact that there’s a lot to learn. Music has been a huge part of history, and is one of the most ancient art forms. So, whether you just want to learn the structure of a symphony or you want to know everything there is to know, these awesome college lectures will increase your musical intelligence in ways you never thought possible.

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