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WEB ADVENTURES: FOR STUDENTS - Explore Science - One Game At A Time - 0 views

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NASA - NASA DLN - Part of NASA LEARN (Learning Environments and Research Network) - 0 views

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NASA.gov brings you images, videos and interactive features from the unique perspective of America's space agency. Get the latest updates on NASA missions, subscribe to blogs, RSS feeds and podcasts, watch NASA TV live, or simply read about our mission to pioneer the future in space exploration, scientific discovery and aeronautics research.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">NASA.gov brings you images, videos and interactive features from the unique perspective of America's space agency. Get the latest updates on NASA missions, subscribe to blogs, RSS feeds and podcasts, watch NASA TV live, or simply read about our mission to pioneer the future in space exploration, scientific discovery and aeronautics research.</div>

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aybüke gül Türker on 23 Feb 12

In honor of Women's History Month, we are pleased to invite you and your students to take part in a special event series entitled "Women in STEM"! Please join us throughout the month of March as we visit various NASA centers and learn how women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics fields contribute to NASA.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">In honor of Women's History Month, we are pleased to invite you and your students to take part in a special event series entitled "Women in STEM"! Please join us throughout the month of March as we visit various NASA centers and learn how women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics fields contribute to NASA.</div>

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2012 STEMIE Awards: Powered by SHYCAST - 0 views

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McGraw-Hill Education just launched the STEM Innovative Educator Awards to recognize and reward teachers who are finding innovative ways to reach today's students. The awards, known as the STEMIEs, will acknowledge teachers who are pioneering effective techniques to engage their students in science, technology, engineering, or math - fields of study critical to our nation's economic growth. Teachers can enter by submitting a 2-minute video, a short essay, and lesson plan that demonstrate an innovative lesson or other project from their classroom. First place will receive $15,000, second place gets $5,000 and third place wins $2,500, plus McGraw-Hill will grant an additional $2,500 in other awards. In addition to the judging panel, members of the general public will have the opportunity to vote online for their favorite video. Applications will be accepted through May 31, 2012. For more information about the STEMIEs, please visit www.mheonline.com/stemie.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">McGraw-Hill Education just launched the STEM Innovative Educator Awards to recognize and reward teachers who are finding innovative ways to reach today's students. The awards, known as the STEMIEs, will acknowledge teachers who are pioneering effective techniques to engage their students in science, technology, engineering, or math - fields of study critical to our nation's economic growth. Teachers can enter by submitting a 2-minute video, a short essay, and lesson plan that demonstrate an innovative lesson or other project from their classroom. First place will receive $15,000, second place gets $5,000 and third place wins $2,500, plus McGraw-Hill will grant an additional $2,500 in other awards. In addition to the judging panel, members of the general public will have the opportunity to vote online for their favorite video. Applications will be accepted through May 31, 2012. For more information about the STEMIEs, please visit <a href="http://www.mheonline.com/stemie" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.mheonline.com/stemie</a>.</div>

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Engineering is Elementary | Engineering Adventures - 0 views

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Kevin Carey: The Higher Education Monopoly Is Crumbling As We Speak | The New Republic - 0 views

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The predominant higher education business model of the future may be one where the education itself costs students nothing—the availability of free open educational resources is constantly growing—and students only pay small fees to cover the cost of assessing their learning.
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The Mozilla Foundation, funded by the people who developed the Firefox web browser, are sponsoring a competition for the creation of badge systems that will help students organize the credentials they receive from different providers.
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Traditional degrees have the great advantage of being simple and universally understood. The problem is that they provide little information about what students actually know and are becoming more expensive all the time.
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There will always be a market for boutique educational models that only the wealthy can afford. But for hundreds of other colleges and universities that lack such advantages or foresight, the future may not look anything like the past.
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