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Mexican Teachers Go Beserk

2013-05-18T00:00:00.000+12:00

Mexican Teachers Union opposes education reform with violence-- The Economist: " . . . In recent days teachers have gone berserk in the south-western state of Guerrero, setting fires and attacking the offices of political parties with home-made weapons . . . The protests come as Mexico’s new government tries to push through a big education reform. It makes what, in most countries, would be

Law schools still hiding the sad truth from students

2013-05-16T00:00:00.000+12:00

Law schools: Still hiding the sad truth from students? - Fortune Management: " . . . According to a new analysis from nonprofit research group Law School Transparency, almost 80% of nearly 200 accredited legal institutions offer incomplete, inaccurate, or even misleading job placement information on their school websites. As tuition has climbed but legal jobs have evaporated, American law schools

MOOCs and the Challenge of Providing a Global Education

2013-05-14T00:00:00.000+12:00

How MOOCs Could Meet the Challenge of Providing a Global Education | MIT Technology Review: " . . . Many are now already looking to the next phases of these online courses in the developing world, a future that may look more like a blending of online and traditional college work than one existing entirely on the Internet. In India, for example, Microsoft Research, which has offices in Bangalore,

edX MOOC Software Goes Open Source

2013-05-11T00:00:00.000+12:00

edX MOOC Software Goes Open Source InformationWeek Getting open-source developers to work on software that uses the XBlock code is important to edX'sstrategy for expanding the types of learning that can occur on its platform, because a module developed for physics won't necessarily be usable for a ... more education news below Follow @eSummaCom

Gamification of Education

2013-05-09T00:00:00.000+12:00

12 Certainties That Will Transform Every Career and Create New Ones | Flash Foresights from Daniel Burrus | Big Think: "6. Gamification of Education will create many new careers as corporations and educational institutions at all levels accelerate learning by using advanced simulations and skill-based learning systems that are self-diagnostic, interactive, game-like, and competitive, all focused

The New Normal - a Parent Revolution in Education

2013-05-07T00:00:00.000+12:00

The New Normal | Parent Revolution: "This week – on Tuesday, February 12 – the parents of 24th Street Elementary School in Los Angeles achieved an unprecedented victory. The Los Angeles Unified School District Board voted unanimously to accept the parent’s petition to put into action a “restart model” for their children’s chronically failing school. The LAUSD Board vote was not only unanimous, it

The New Normal in Law Schools

2013-05-04T00:00:00.000+12:00

Simple Justice: The New Normal at St. Louis University Law: " . . . Pretty much everyone agrees that changes are needed, that the good years of tons of applicants filling as many seats as schools could jam into a classroom, while scholars spend their many free hours thinking deep thoughts about important theories that no judge will ever read. Faced with declining enrollment, a moribund job

Accelerated Learning

2013-05-02T00:00:00.000+12:00

Accelerated Learning Would Add Trillions of Dollars in Wealth — The American Magazine: " . . . Sixty-three percent of employers said that recent college graduates don’t have the skills they need to succeed, the Association of American Colleges and Universities found in 2010. A separate survey showed that 25 percent of employers say that entry-level writing skills are deficient. What went wrong? .

Open Cloud Academy a new "advanced technology training" certification program

2013-04-30T00:00:00.000+12:00

How Rackspace is taking on Amazon now - Fortune Tech: " . . . Rackspace, along with its various partners and customers, seems to be having a hard time finding enough technical workers with "open" cloud computing skills. "The skills needed to build websites, like HTML and PHP [computer languages used in web development] are pretty mature," says Graham Weston, chairman and co-founder of Rackspace.

Streaming Ebooks - A New Distribution Model for Schools

2013-04-27T00:00:00.000+12:00

Streaming Ebooks: A New Distribution Model for Schools | Digital Book World: " . . . Solution: A streaming model for schools - Some new digital publishing companies have begun to listen. One such company is StarWalk Kids Media, founded by author Seymour Simon and former Sesame Street Creative Director Liz Nealon. Through their research—they frequently visit schools and attend education

The dirty secret of online learning

2013-04-25T00:00:00.000+12:00

The dirty little secret of online learning: Students are bored and dropping out Quartz Because if online education is going to be useful for learners, then it's time for online learning to grow up. Hundreds of ... The four major MOOC platforms (Coursera, edX, Udacity and Udemy) have attracted at least 4 million sign-ups to date. Many of ... Digital learning startup Benchprep expands into

College Should Encourage Entrepreneurialism Not Narcissism

2013-04-23T00:00:00.000+12:00

Common College App Should Encourage Entrepreneurialism, Not Narcissism - Forbes: "Given that getting into college no longer brings with it the expectation of a good job in an economy that is starting to appear as if it discriminates against too much education in entry-level positions, maybe an alternative question should be substituted. Why not ask aspiring students if they ever started a

Education, Innovation, Jobs

2013-04-20T00:00:00.000+12:00

Need a Job? Invent It - NYTimes.com: By Thomas L. Friedman - When Tony Wagner, the Harvard education specialist, describes his job today, he says he’s “a translator between two hostile tribes” — the education world and the business world, the people who teach our kids and the people who give them jobs. Wagner’s argument in his book “Creating Innovators: The Making of Young People Who Will Change

Stanford - a startup incubator with football team

2013-04-18T00:00:00.000+12:00

Silicon Valley, Start-Ups, and the End of Stanford? : The New Yorker: "Is Stanford still a university? The Wall Street Journal recently reported that more than a dozen students—both undergraduate and graduate—have left school to work on a new technology start-up called Clinkle. Faculty members have invested, the former dean of Stanford’s business school is on the board, and one computer-science

Asking the Right Questions

2013-04-16T00:00:00.000+12:00

The Future is Uncertain. It's Time to Start Asking the Right Questions. | Big Think TV | Big Think: "Asking questions is essential to learning. That was an essential lesson from one of history's first great teachers, Socrates. Or, as the wise Rabbi Steven Greenberg puts it: "we train children at the Passover seder to ask why, because tyrants are undone and liberty is won with a good question."

Rosetta Stone buys Livemocha

2013-04-13T00:00:00.000+12:00

Rosetta Stone nabs online language biz Livemocha to accelerate cloud path | ZDNet: "Rosetta Stone, arguably the leader in foreign language education software, is keen on making a jump to the cloud. By the looks of its latest acquisition, the Arlington, Va.-based business wants to do that as fast as possible. That purchase consists of Livemocha, a online language learning community with a

Higher Education and Diversity!

2013-04-11T00:00:00.000+12:00

Suzy Lee Weiss: To (All) the Colleges That Rejected Me - WSJ.com: ". . . . For starters, had I known two years ago what I know now, I would have gladly worn a headdress to school. Show me to any closet, and I would've happily come out of it. "Diversity!" I offer about as much diversity as a saltine cracker. If it were up to me, I would've been any of the diversities: Navajo, Pacific Islander,

Vivek Wadhwa No Longer Advises Startups to Hire MBAs

2013-04-09T00:00:00.000+12:00

Vivek Wadhwa: Why I No Longer Advise Startups to Hire M.B.A.s - The Accelerators - WSJ: " . . . Instead of M.B.A.s, what I advise students with technology backgrounds to complete are one-year long masters of engineering-management programs like the one at Duke University—where I teach. These teach management, marketing, law and accounting skills and skim over the intricacies of finance and

CreativeLive An Online Education Giant (video)

2013-04-06T00:00:00.000+12:00

CreativeLive Is a Quiet Online Education Giant - AllThingsD's Liz Gannes speaks with Mika Salmi of CreativeLive about how doing it live really is different. more education news below Follow @eSummaCom

Data caps could diminish online learning potential

2013-04-04T01:00:00.000+12:00

Data caps could dim online learning's bright future - Stanford Graduate School of Education ... Data caps could dim online learning's bright future ...But even that debate rests on a fundamental assumption that access to the courses themselves is not a barrier. Today, data caps—monthly limits that force Internet users to pay for a specific amount of data and bill them even more if they exceed the

Bill Gates: future of education is data

2013-04-02T01:00:00.000+12:00

Bill Gates at SXSWedu: The future of education is data - GeekWire: "“I think this is a special time for technology in education,” he began. But then he immediately cautioned, perhaps in light of some less-than-successful early Gates-funded initiatives (such as small high schools within high schools), “we try not to be naïve about how complex it’s going to be.”. . . . Jessie Woolley-Wilson, head

The college education system is a broken model

2013-03-30T01:00:00.000+12:00

Jeff Gundlach On College Education - Business Insider: GUNDLACH: Young People Need To See These 4 Charts Before Signing Up For College Jeff Gundlach, the brains behind DoubleLine Funds, has been right about most things lately. He has been spot on about Apple, Japan, natural gas, and interest rates among other things. And he's probably right about the value of a college educations. In his

The Student Loan Bubble

2013-03-28T01:00:00.000+12:00

The Dow Floats Ever Higher On A Sea Of Economic Bubbles - Forbes: " . . . . The student loan bubble - The student loan bubble—a mere $1 trillion—is yet another bubble waiting to burst. The majority of the student loans are backed by the federal government, which means the public bears most of the risk associated with student loans.As Ben Gersten writes in MoneyMorning: “Those loans are looking

Expectations for the way the world gets educated are being rewritten

2013-03-26T01:00:00.000+12:00

Cassidy: Coursera class offers peek into determination of student body - SiliconValley.com: " . . . When I talked to Andrew Ng, the Stanford computer science associate professor who helped launch the for-profit Coursera not quite a year ago, he said that providing the developing world with potential was one of the most satisfying aspects of the company so far. "When everyone in the world has

Fear Grips University education system

2013-03-23T01:00:00.000+12:00

Digital learning: VIRTUAL FEAR GRIPS University education system: " . . . In 2012, new ‘universities’ — or companies — offering higher education sprouted up in the United States and they have enrolled more students than the Ivy League universities. According to the MIT Technology Review, MOOC sign-ups exceeded 70,000 new students a week, “the equivalent of four or five Stanfords”, it says. Names