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Oct. 21: Carnegie Mellon Expands Mobile Learning Project in India With Support From Nokia Research Center in Palo Alto - Carnegie Mellon UniversityCarnegie Mellon University today announced the expansion of its Mobile & Immersive Learning for Literacy in Emerging Economies (MILLEE) project, which will gauge the effectiveness of mobile phone-based games for teaching English lessons to students in rural India. This new phase of the research ...
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Open-Source Textbooks a Mixed Bag in California: Scientific American - Politics and BusinessOpen-Source Textbooks a Mixed Bag in California: Scientific American
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As Classrooms Go Digital, Textbooks May Become History - NYTimes.comAt Empire High School in Vail, Ariz., students use computers provided by the school to get their lessons, do their homework and hear podcasts of their teachers’ science lectures. Down the road, at Cienega High School, students who own laptops can register for “digital sections” of several ...
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Obama's Great Course Giveaway - Technology - The Chronicle of Higher EducationMr. Smith, a veteran of the Clinton- and Carter-era Education Departments, is an open-education evangelist who recently returned to government after serving as education-program director for the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. The California foundation has funneled more than $80-million ...
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The disruptive effects of ‘free’ education | Virtual CanuckFree has not only effected media consumption, publishing, and software production but also has capacity to create very disruptive, low end challenges to higher education. A low end disruption offers a service to a large new market by providing satisfactory (but not necessarily equivalent, at ...
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TED Blog: A call to reinvent liberal arts education: Liz Coleman on TED.com01 June 2009 A call to reinvent liberal arts education: Liz Coleman on TED.com Bennington president Liz Coleman delivers a call-to-arms for radical reform in higher education. Bucking the trend to push students toward increasingly narrow areas of study, she proposes a truly ...
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Scientific Learning Launches “The New Science of Learning” Webinar Series for K-12 EducatorsScientific Learning Launches “The New Science of Learning” Webinar Series for K-12 Educators Posted : Tue, 12 May 2009 20:22:26 GMT Author : Scientific Learning Corp. News Alerts by Email ( click here ) News | Home OAKLAND, Calif. - (Business Wire) K-12 educators are invited to ...
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2009 Horizon Report2009 Horizon Report The New Media Consortium About The 2009 Horizon Report is a collaboration between The New Media Consortium and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative An EDUCAUSE Program © 2009, The New Media Consortium. Permission is granted under a Creative Commons ...
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Study flunks 49 states in college affordability - Yahoo! NewsAn independent report on American higher education flunks all but one state when it comes to affordability — an embarrassing verdict that is unlikely to improve as the economy contracts. The biennial study by the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education, which evaluates how well ...
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The End of Economic GrowthIvan Illich was the first to talk about the “ counterproductivity” of growth, to say that we have reached a point where economic growth is decreasing our well being. In this study, we will look at the fundamental economic cause of counterproductivity: growth brings diminishing benefits and ...
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