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Stop peering at that teeny screen and fumbling with Lilliputian keyboards. These five PC desktop texting apps and services let your fingers fly, your eyes relax, and your thoughts flow.

Academic preparation isn’t the only factor in college readiness. Also helping to determine whether students get to graduation are social behaviors, like whether they show up for class, engage with professors and make eye contact. A new assessment from the Education Testing Service (ETS) seeks to measure those non-academic variables.

ETS today is rolling out the test, which is called SuccessNavigator. It could help colleges identify students in remedial tracks who can pass credit-bearing, college-level courses, said officials with the nonprofit testing giant.

Read more: http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/05/20/new-ets-test-non-academic-skills#ixzz2TpSnz300 ;
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A global framework for mental health practitioners offering online therapy, telemental health, behavioral telehealth, telepsychology services.

The most common question students ask math teachers at every level is “When will I use math?” WeUseMath.org is a non-profit website that helps to answer this question. This website describes the importance of mathematics and many rewarding career opportunities available to students who study mathematics.

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Anunciábamos hace un tiempo el libro que hoy, día de Internet, salía al mercado. Se trata de un trabajo firmado por Luis F.

Research papers, video clips with resourceful leaders, and results of new approaches to becoming a better faculty member or administrator are listed in the Research section of the Administrators section in HETS Virtualplaza.

Here's a course topic not currently offered by any of the providers of massive open online courses: "The Implications of Coursera’s For-Profit Business Model for Global Public Education." The course was proposed last week by Robert Meister, professor of political and social thought in the department of the history of consciousness at the University of California at Santa Cruz and president of the Council of UC Faculty Associations. He sent a letter with his idea to Daphne Koller, a computer science professor at Stanford University and co-founder of Coursera, and then published his letter on the blog of the American Association of Univ

Read more: http://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2013/05/20/mooc-skeptic-proposes-anti-mooc-mooc#ixzz2TpTTanQd ;
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Voxopop is a fun, engaging and easy-to-use way to help students develop their speaking skills. Create a talkgroup for your language class today!

Reports from the Council for Aid to Education provide evidence that students are in fact learning, in contrast to the findings of a blockbuster 2011 book.

What do students value in terms of instructor feedback on their writing? And, how does the timing of the receipt of feedback impact the development of students’ writing skills?

Mobile phones could soon be much less touchy-feely thanks to a new kind of 3D gesture-recognition technology that doesn't gobble up battery life

We've curated a list of the best education apps for Apple's iOS. But now it's your turn. Share your favorite apps, vote up apps that you like, and make this list as useful as possible!