Another company, called Shmoop, offers fun and comprehensive study guides and other teaching resources online.
They will be asking, what is the value added by our campus when demand can be aggregated either by bringing students to campus or, much less expensively, by reaching and teaching students online virtually anywhere in the world?
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It was the ecosystem behind the iPads that mattered rather than the devices - and the iTunes U platform which allowed the school to put so many teaching resources online was much cheaper than the Virtual Learning Environments that many schools use.
Innovation in higher education, such as online teaching, would help raise the supply of skilled workers.
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Again, standards for online teaching should not contain arbitrary thresholds for required interaction.
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Others have suggested that online teaching represents a new funding model for universities.
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It eloquently makes the point that online teaching is here to stay.
TEACH.gov features an online path to teaching and over 4, 000 listed, open teaching positions.
In another MOOC she took run by a University of Pennsylvania professor, a half-dozen teaching assistants shepherded student discussion online and cheating was much less pervasive, she said.
Thomas showed her initiative by teaching herself to organize and lead an online seminar -- a Webinar -- aimed at showing doctors how to better communicate on TV.
Her courses include Cultural Anthropology, Global Cultural Diversity and Gender through Comic Books, which she is teaching this spring as a massive open online course (MOOC) via Canvas.net.
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The ultimate goal of this workshop is to promote the development of teaching and learning materials that are freely available online, and to allow global communities of practice in Morocco (including teachers, learners and education professionals) to freely copy, adapt and share their resources.
Among the steps that Secretary Clinton and the White House announced in support of attracting and retaining women to STEM careers are improving data collection and dissemination on women in science and technology, bolstering the available pool of skilled STEM mentors, encouraging research-based STEM teaching, and helping to connect women to online and mobile STEM skills training.
Target and Wal-Mart Stores, pissed at Amazon for teaching consumers how to browse in stores and buy online, have refused to sell Kindles this Christmas.
The internet lets parents discover teaching materials and communicate with each other, swapping tips online.
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The report also says the government should commission online training courses for teachers to help them find the right techniques for teaching literacy.
More recent projects include a mobile guide to the street murals in Philadelphia, using tagged maps and information about the artwork, and online educational software so teachers can post questions and assignments, and students can help in teaching each other material.
The two 50-minute online test sessions assessed "the old spreadsheet, word-processing and presentation applications which I was teaching 15 years ago, plus a bit of e-mail".
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