Melbourne Uni offers free online courses. Top universities are in Coursera. The University of Melbourne has joined the free online education revolution and will offer courses via the internet, at no cost, early next year.
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Teacherpreneurs and education reform
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MicroStrategy CEO Sees a World With 5 Billion Smartphones and 10 Billion and 5 Billion PhDs. With Wikipedia, YouTube, and Kahn Academy, we can get the equivalent of a collect education for under $2,500, he said. 
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The technologies that can have the best impact on education are evolving quickly from year to year, and the pace seems to be quickening. EmergingEdTech’s Top 10 Emerging Education and Instructional Technologies (and resources that make the case, and can help you to learn more about each of them):
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Take a moment and remember your favorite teacher - now imagine that teacher could reach, not 30 kids in a classroom, but millions of students all over the world. As we first reported last spring, that's exactly what Sal Khan is doing on his website Khan Academy. With its digital lessons and simple exercises, he's determined to transform how we learn at every level. One of his most famous pupils, Bill Gates, says Khan -- this "teacher to the world," is giving us all a glimpse of the future of education.
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At the SF EdTech Meetup on August 16th, EdSurge shared ten trends worth keeping an eye on--and maybe even worth questioning. Here they are, in their full glory. Let us know if you agree--or are spotting other trends.
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Professors save their course, give out homework and tests. Each video is translated into six to 10 foreign languages by student volunteers. Interactive platforms (quizzes, forums, peer reviews) engage the student users. And the machine “learns” from users’ suggestions. What is its economic model? Coursera is using what is known as the “freemium” business model: courses are free to access but students need to pay from 100 to 150 dollars to obtain their certification. In the long run, Coursera intends to connect both students and companies and become a recruitment network.
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Note: This post is the first in the nine-part series Teacherpreneurs Mentor Edupunks: Convergence Reshapes Teacher Preparation for Today and the Future and written in the vein of peering into Teach...
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Online education costs are lowering and the quality of education is increasing.
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Imagine high school without textbooks. Instead of scanning stacks lined with colorful spines, kids carry libraries on sleek black e-readers. Anatomy labs are devoid of bloody frogs — students can simply cut up digital amphibians with finger strokes on a touch screen. Changes like these are happening now, in public and private schools across the state, as Massachusetts embraces the iPad education revolution.
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Skillshare's Michael Karnjanaprakorn on Building a Startup Michael Karnjanaprakorn, Co-founder & CEO of Skillshare and Northside panelist, describes how a poker game led to the founding of his company and shares his best lessons about...
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Do you know what technology you’ll be using in the classroom 5 years from now? What about 10 years from now? A new visualization may be able to help.
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"All education is self-education. Period. It doesn’t matter if you’re sitting in a college classroom or a coffee shop. We don’t learn anything we don’t want to learn. Those people who take the time and initiative to pursue knowledge on their own are the only ones who earn a real education in this world."
If you’re interested in learning something new, this article is for you. Broken down by subject and/or category, here are several top-notch self-education resources that have been bookmarked online over the past few years.
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Master Teacher on Skillshare, Nate Cooper, on how freelancers can use teaching to gain wider exposure to new audiences.
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Teachers are making money selling their classroom lessons in TPT, an online marketplace. A Georgia Kindergarten teacher tops the list (Talk about entrepreneurial! - A real teacherpreneur
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"We’ve put together a list of some of the best edtech reads out there, from essential texts on the subject to cutting-edge research, that will help you learn about and implement educational technologies and curricula that can truly benefit both you and your students." Via Jim Lerman
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A Colorado university is announcing on Thursday that it will give full transfer credit to students who complete a free introductory computer-science course offered by the online-education start-up company Udacity. In order to earn the three transfer credits toward their bachelor's degrees at Colorado State, students will need a "certificate of accomplishment" from Udacity showing they passed the course. Then they have to pass a proctored examination offered by Udacity through a secure testing center. The exam, administered by the Pearson VUE testing group, will cost $89.
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Stanford's free online courses are taught by regular Stanford faculty and are highly interactive. Enrollees do not get Stanford credit for their work, but they do receive a statement of accomplishment if they successfully complete a course. The classes are delivered on a number of different platforms.
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Learning Without Frontiers (LWF) is a global platform that facilitates the ongoing dialogue about the future of learning.
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Harvard and MIT announced a partnership Wednesday to offer free online courses available to students around the world.
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How many teachers have the opportunity to make $100,000 a year?
Meet Avi Flombaum, 28, a programmer and teacher who hasn't taken the usual route. Flombaum teaches for Skillshare, an organization that "began as a way for communities to share local knowledge by teaching and taking classes on everything from programming to entrepreneurship to cooking," according to the company's website.
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American Revolution 2.0 How Education Innovation is Going to Revitalize America and Transform the U.S. Economy
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The Academy Bridge is proving that it is now possible to provide a free, high-quality and easily accessible, business education experience. Whether you are a professor, high school or college student, retired or someone committed to life-long learning, you will benefit from the Academy Bridge's unique educational platform. Engaging content is continuously being added. We invite you to begin your Academy Bridge academic journey today.
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Startups such as Coursera, 2tor and Udacity have used the web to bring college professors' lectures to a wider audience. Skillshare, meanwhile, is eliminating the lectures--and the professors The new “hybrid classes” have both an online component where teachers orchestrate projects, resources, videos and feedback as well as an option for students who live near each other to meet periodically.
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It's a quick but valuable click through these 112 slides on Internet trends from Mary Meeker, now with Kleiner Perkins and one of the dozens of analysts. Some signs of big changes: global mobile traffic is now about 10% of all Internet traffic (slide 14). Much, much more. Even though the show isn't specific to education, the trends are well-worth exploring.
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Online Teaching Conference Presentation on how Open Education has changed from Open Access to Open Credentialing.
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