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Maung Nyeu

Debate on cyber charter schools heats up as bill moves forward | Detroit Free Press | f... - 0 views

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    Cyber charter schools bill stirs up debate in Detroit. Does evidence justify it?
Maung Nyeu

The Register Editorial: Iowa should go slow on Internet schools | The Des Moines Regist... - 0 views

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    Iowa goes for full-time for-profit online school.
Maung Nyeu

Dr. Keith Devlin: What Silicon Valley Executives Keep Getting Wrong About Education - 4 views

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    A different point of view on Khan Academy because of one-way instruction.
Maung Nyeu

Textbooks Finally Take a Big Leap to Digital - NYTimes.com - 2 views

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    Are digital textbooks the beginning of the end for the college bookstores? 39 percent students surveyed used digital reader. We may be reaching a tipping point here.
Roshanak Razavi

University looks into providing video courses online - 1 views

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    Washington University is trying to design video courses that can closely reflect the classroom experience.
Emily Watson

As Online Courses Grow, Sites Offering Unauthorized Academic Help Get More Brazen - Wir... - 0 views

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    Discusses the increase of agressive marketing that facilitates cheating that is being coupled with the growing of opportunities for online learning.
Josh Tappan

Online Class Aims to Earn Millions (Wall Street Journal) - 0 views

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    UT-Austin professors pilot "Synchronous Massive Online Class" (SMOC)
Ryan Klinger

MOOCAdvisor - 2 views

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    A good place to find and learn more about the ins/outs/good/bad of MOOCs.
Krithika Jagannath

Storybird - Artful storytelling - 1 views

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    This is an online collaborative tool to help people (especially children) create and share stories and/or art. 
Trung Tran

Our Educational Leaders Must Get Aggressive With Technology - 0 views

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    Does it look like digital citizenship is being promoted sufficiently by educators? Huffington Post doesn't think so and is advocating for more aggressive tactics from education sector.
Trung Tran

Researchers given funding to put MOOCs under microscope - 0 views

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    Gates Foundation is now rolling out funding for researchers to produce peer-reviewed quality studies on MOOCs. It looks like professors around the world (as far as down south in Australia) are keen to start working on this new tech trend in education.
Trung Tran

Metaio CEO Thomas Alt Discusses Augmented Reality For Smartwatches, Google Glass And More - 0 views

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    Augmented Reality pioneers Metaio hardly qualify as a startup these days (being incorporated since 2003 and funded by a stream of project work from the likes of Volkswagen and IKEA), but they behave very much like a startup and are constantly inventing new systems for their considerable augmented reality SDK.
Trung Tran

Moocs are no magic bullet for educating Americans - FT.com - 0 views

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    Optimists have scoured the dictionary for superlatives to describe the future of internet education. But the cult of the Mooc - massive online open courses - took a blow last week when one of its leading Silicon Valley pioneers, Sebastian Thrun,
Harley Chang

The president's 'gaming guy' tells us that games fascinate Obama - 0 views

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    Looks like the white house is already seeing the value of educational games. But as we have read and seen, is it the right kind of games and will it be implemented correctly?
Josh Tappan

Integrating Design Thinking into K-12 Education - 4 views

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    Details some efforts, challenges, and successes to bringing design thinking and creativity into K-12 education. Reminded me of some of the programs presented by the CEEO in class last Monday
Trung Tran

Data mining in course management systems: Moodle case study and tutorial - 2 views

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    Very interesting article for those of us who want investigate about Course Management Systems. Sometimes institutions don't just care about learning outcomes but also the entrepreneurial aspects of data analysis.
Trung Tran

MOOCs: Too Much Hype, or Not Enough? - 0 views

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    This examines the hype implied in MOOCs around the world
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