The International Monetary Fund and edX, a nonprofit online venture started by Harvard and M.I.T., have announced a collaboration to offer the fund’s training courses in macroeconomics and finance on the edX platform.
1 Million Students and Growing "Yesterday we officially signed up our 1 Millionth Student. Our Program Managers took some time from working with Universities, Professors, and Course Staffs to celebrate. 999 million more to go! " in https://plus.google.com/u/0/108235383044095082735/posts
A HootCourse is an online classroom. And then some.
Instead of cumbersome forums or complicated lesson-plan formats, HootCourse uses a combination of the most popular social networks and blogging platforms to provide a new type of online classroom.
HootCourses are built on tweets and status updates in real-time. There's no particular structure to them, at least no more than a classroom with chairs and a blackboard; they're a simple construct that lets a teacher and pupil interact. read more in http://hootcourse.com/about/ 'via Blog this'
NGA Images is a repository of digital images of the collections of the National Gallery of Art. On this website you can search, browse, share, and download images. A standards-based reproduction guide and a help section provide advice for both novices and experts. More than 25,000 open accessdigital images up to 3000 pixels each are available free of charge for download and use. NGA Images is designed to facilitate learning, enrichment, enjoyment, and exploration.
The iPad has been the tablet of choice for schools, thanks to volume purchasing, volume management, and the vast selection of apps. But that may be about to change.
With the recent launch of Google Play for Education, Google is set to challenge the iPad’s dominance. Come Fall 2013, Google will be shaking up the K–12 tablet landscape in a very big way.
"We are pleased to announce that the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology and Tel Aviv University | אוניברסיטת תל-אביב (TAU) have become members of Coursera’s network of educational partners! Check out these new offerings, including courses on Nanotechnology, The Emergence of the Modern Middle East and 2 more:
Vine is the best way to see and share life in motion. Create short, beautiful, looping videos in a simple and fun way for your friends and family to see. 'via Blog this'
The startpage that connects and organize all your favorite links, bookmarks, social networks, favorite online services, into one single beautiful interface.
"Library For All is trying to harness the power of technology and mobile phone networks found across the developing world in order to give low-cost access to a digital library of relevant content.
The library brings together content from Open Source providers and top global publishers. It is designed for low-bandwidth environments through the use of a local network topology. The platform is designed to be device agnostic. That means it can be accessed via mobile phones, e-readers or even low-cost tablets.
A 4th grade student at our pilot school in Respire Haiti, trying out an Aakash tablet, that retails at just $40. With your backing, we will launch Library For All here in October!
Rather than bringing traditional tablets that are reliant on wifi and are focused on apps and internet access, this style of platform promises to be much more useful in developing areas where access/wifi is not always reliable. Check out their video to learn a bit more, and don’t forget to take a look at their Kickstarter page to learn more about the scaling of their project and some more specifics!"
Technology integration is the use of technology resources -- computers, mobile devices like smartphones and tablets, digital cameras, social media platforms and networks, software applications, the Internet, etc. -- in daily classroom practices, and in the management of a school. Successful technology integration is achieved when the use of technology is:
Routine and transparent
Accessible and readily available for the task at hand
Supporting the curricular goals, and helping the students to effectively reach their goals
When technology integration is at its best, a child or a teacher doesn't stop to think that he or she is using a technology tool -- it is second nature. And students are often more actively engaged in projects when technology tools are a seamless part of the learning process.
Developers around the globe are working to create a next-generation online learning platform that will bring quality education to students around the world.
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