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Report questions efficacy of full-time virtual schools
A report released last week by university researchers is the latest to question the academic merits of full-time virtual schools run by K12 Inc.—and by extension, the promise of cyber…
Partnership encourages local districts to launch their own cyber schools
In an effort to help Pennsylvania school districts recoup money and keep students in the district, two local parties have teamed up to offer districts the ability to launch their…
New online safety curriculum helps schools document CIPA compliance
Starting this month, schools receiving federal e-Rate funding must have updated internet safety policies that show how they will educate minors about appropriate online behavior. Now, a new animated online…
Top campuses jump into the free online course game
A dozen of the country's top universities will make courses available for free on the open online class site Coursera by the beginning of 2013. The announcement was made on…
Experts: UVa.’s Coursera partnership far from an embrace of online learning
The University of Virginia will make four of its courses available for free online in 2013 after the campus’s governing board last month cited a lack of web-based courses in…
Virtual foreign exchange program will give students global skills
Today’s students need to prepare for a globalized world, business leaders often say—but sending students abroad is usually too expensive for cash-strapped schools or parents. One Michigan school district is…
Dell jumps into lecture capture
The proliferation of online courses and the flipped learning model has created demand in higher education for lecture capture systems, and officials at technology giant Dell said July 9 they…
What do your teachers and students really need from systems supporting blended and eLearning?
The average school technologist, let alone the average teacher or administrator, has a lot to wade through in terms of selecting systems that support blended learning initiatives, says Christopher Dawson,…
New program prepares educators for blended learning
Many brick-and-mortar schools want to incorporate more online instruction—but how should teachers prepare for the newly popular blended classroom? An update to a national certification program for educators promises to…
Colleges taking a team approach to eTextbooks
Reining in exorbitant textbook costs is no longer a campus-by-campus venture: A unified approach, powered by EDUCAUSE and the Internet2 consortium’s NET+ cloud-based collaborative purchasing program, could make low-cost electronic…