Would you trade your experience as a traditional college student for this option with MOOCs?
Online-education trend expands
Another day, another development in the rapidly evolving world of massive open online courses, otherwise known as MOOCs.
Over the past several months, dozens of universities, including the University of Texas System, Brown and Wesleyan, have joined the bandwagon, working with MOOC providers to offer free online courses to anyone with an Internet connection.
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Website of the day: Monsters University
In preparation for the upcoming Monsters University movie, Pixar has put up a pretty detailed fake website for said university of monsterdom.
Students fighting for their education in Chile.
A riot policeman shoots a student protester with a pinball gun as he is arrested during a protest against the government to demand changes in the public state education in Santiago, September 27, 2012. Chilean students have been protesting against what they say is profiteering in the state education system. [REUTERS/Ivan Alvarado]
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It’s revenge of the geeks! This list of top 10 schools based on starting and mid-career salaries includes mostly engineering, polytechnic institutes and mining schools. And students majoring in engineering, mathematics, computer science and physics bring in the top pay.
More than four-in-10 teachers said children failed to read for pleasure at the age of 11, it emerged.
The study – by the publisher Pearson – found that many schools fear children have short attention spans and prefer to spend time online rather than reading a novel.
Teachers also said that books were not seen as “cool” by pupils and raised fears that parents are failing to do enough to promote a love of reading in the home.
» via The Telegraph
From NYTimes:
More than $500,000 has been raised online this week for a 68-year-old school bus monitor from upstate New York after a cellphone video showing a group of boys on the bus brutally taunting her spread quickly on the Internet.
Many teachers could use this list. I especially like the coffee spill…
An incredibly strong photograph. What can we do as students, administration, friends do to help decrease the U.S. drop out rate?
THE ABSENT An installation of 857 empty school desks, representing the number of U.S. students who drop out of school every hour, every school day, displayed at the National Mall in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Alex Wong / Getty Images via The Telegraph)
![Students fighting for their education in Chile.
reuters:
A riot policeman shoots a student protester with a pinball gun as he is arrested during a protest against the government to demand changes in the public state education in Santiago, September 27, 2012. Chilean students have been protesting against what they say is profiteering in the state education system. [REUTERS/Ivan Alvarado]
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