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La subida de tasas académicas y la restricción de las becas acorralan a los universitarios en plena crisis

Rosetta Stone, the popular commercial language-instruction system, is no replacement for trained teachers and in-class learning, a new study has found. The company that makes the system says it has no interest in replacing teachers, though it has recently made deals with colleges to use its product as a teaching tool.

A report on the study, published in the most recent issue of the Association of Departments of Foreign Languages’ Bulletin, is an example of growing faculty concern that software could replace classroom teaching.

Constantly I am checking out fresh Facebook content so I am always on the cutting edge and every time I see an awesome infographic I save it to my desktop.

Ya os hemos hablado en algunas ocasiones de Rounds (rounds.com), la solución de videoconferencia que, compitiendo con los famosos Google Hangouts, permite

Two Australian universities announced this week that they would offer assessment and credit of specific otherwise free, open online courses for a fee.

On Monday, Deakin University launched its first massive open online course on humanitarian emergencies, offering students the option of taking it for free, or for a fee of $495 they can be assessed and awarded credit towards a postgraduate qualification.

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This fall Rice University will offer the first course aimed specifically at K-12 science teachers through the online education provider Coursera.

Esta presentación ha sido desarrollada como parte de la propuesta sometida al XX Congreso de Educación y Aprendizaje a celebrarse en Rodas, Grecia desde el 1...

For Tully’s 70th birthday, a group of his friends and collaborators teamed up to throw a conferencecelebrating his work. At the same time, they unveiled two remarkable new cosmic maps, which he helped to create. One is the color coded one, above, which depicts the exact location of every galaxy out to a distance of 300 million light years; that covers about 30 times as much space as Tully’s earlier version. But the even more amazing advance–the one that truly made my head spin, as I hope it will do to yours–is the 3D video, which shows not only all the visible structures but also the unseen dark matter, and illustrates the dynamic behavior of the whole thing. (The French-accented narration, decidedly not by Tully, is a sweet extra touch.)

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Medical education is increasingly about debate and discussion. Here we comment on how apps can help apply that attitude to CME.

En el entorno online, clientes y vendedores  sufren una serie de fricciones que dificultan una relación fluida entre  debido en parte a la falta de entendimiento entre los sujetos. Un cliente poten...

You can do a ton of great things with just an iPad, but some of the best uses are using it as an external controller for your computer.

The provosts of Big 10 universities and the University of Chicago are in high-level talks to create an online education network across their campuses, which collectively enroll more than 500,000 students a year.

And these provosts from some of America’s top research universities have concluded that they – not corporate entrepreneurs and investors -- must drive online education efforts.

The plans and concerns are outlined in a position paper that comes just as education technology companies, including Coursera and 2U, are working to expand or deepen their ties to universities, including universities in the Big 10-related group of provosts known as the Committee on Institutional Cooperation.

Read more: http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/06/19/big-10-provosts-question-partnerships-ed-tech-companies#ixzz2Wel43kqM ;
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