Stanford University has been active in online education, giving away many courses for free on iTunes.
In my mind, the more interesting experiments in online education are coming from platforms that are not tied to traditional institutions.
And in online education, the addition of elite higher institutions of learning to the mix has really been a game-changer.
Interactive whiteboards were being promoted, wireless networks were seen as being another evolutionary step in online education and there were software packages for everything from tackling truancy to writing reports.
As more schools embraced online education, smaller, less well-known colleges and for-profit universities drove further innovation in the online education space.
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Ms. Galina Gavrilitse, the Consultant of the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Moldova, shared the experience in development of educational online resources for sexual education and HIV prevention in school curriculum.
One can hardly go a day without seeing an article touting the end of the University as we know it as the rise of online education, and in particular Massively Open Online Courses (MOOCs), promises to unleash a wave of creative destruction in higher education.
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When former California Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner was reviewing health plan options in 2011 for his online education start-up Empowered, he picked a little-known company called SeeChange Health.
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In sum, if online education is going to become the land-grant college of the 21st century, some measure of uniformity and mutual understanding needs to be implemented for the benefit of students, professors and administrators alike.
There is likely to be a wave of innovation in further education, particularly online, that will cater to this need in a more flexible, personalised way than the traditional degree or postgraduate course.
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Udacity, a pioneer of free online education discussed in recent Crotty posts, yesterday announced a partnership with translation platform Amara to translate and subtitle more than 5, 000 of its course videos, according to an Amara press release.
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Innovation in higher education, such as online teaching, would help raise the supply of skilled workers.
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Following the law change, parents in Sevenoaks launched an online petition urging the council to provide grammar school education in the area.
In Malaysia, the industry-backed Insurance Info Programme since 2003 has provided easy-to-understand materials, online resources and financial education in schools to promote financial inclusion.
Online learning will produce fundamental change in higher education.
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It may, in fact, end up pushing the concept of online education further than any other country.
Among groups leveraging online communities the most, education came in at the top of the class, comprising 11 percent of all social communities, according to the recent Ning survey.
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Less ambitious projects could be, say, online health education via Skype for villagers in rural India or Africa, perhaps by charitable volunteers in developed nations, or remote diagnostics aided by camera phones, Mr Shibulal suggests.
Online education is about taking the "best in class" teachers and scaling them to thousands or millions of students rather than 25-30 at a time.
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Despite skepticism about the school system's ability to shift, online classes now account for 1 million enrollments in public education, up from 45, 000 just seven years ago.
To what extent will online education replace brick-and-mortar education in the next 10 years?
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On the questionable side, in Idaho the state Board of Education approved new standards for online teachers.
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The institution said figure was a "significant milestone" in its efforts to offer "free higher education-standard online courses to all".
To help YaYa stay competitive, Ferrazzi is exploring other ways companies can use online gaming to interact with adults, such as in education and corporate training.
This shift is enabling education technology companies to fulfil the call in education for on-demand, highly targeted and relevant online learning and open resources.
Officials encourage students to complete their education independently through online courses, which have grown in popularity through efforts by companies such as Coursera, edX and Udacity.
Sarah Eichhorn, from the University of California, Irvine's maths department, said this represented an "online education milestone" which would put such maths courses in reach of students around the world.
The results of the survey in 2011 revealed that nearly two-thirds of those familiar with online education believe that a degree earned online is a credible as one earned through a traditional campus-based program.
The funding body is due to contact higher education institutions in the UK, some of which already have online study facilities, asking them for feedback on the plans.
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