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Liberty University's net assets have sustained a fivefold increase -- from $150 million to $860 million -- over the past six years, driven by the rapid expansion of its online programs.
Because Liberty is a nonprofit institution, any surplus it generates must be invested back into the school. However, Falwell said there is no strict timeline about when Liberty must use the money; part of Liberty’s strategy is to build an endowment that will secure the long-term stability of the school. 
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Hybrid teaching methods that combine interactive online learning with limited classroom teaching produce equivalent learning outcomes to traditional classroom teaching methods, according to new research released recently. Via Dr. Susan Bainbridge, Donna Murdoch
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Collaborize Classroom® is a free online collaborative education platform that allows students and teachers to transcend the boundaries of their physical classroom to engage in an online collaborative learning environment.
Collaborize Classroom offers a variety of compelling and intuitive structures for online discussion that are designed to support innovative teaching and promote higher level thinking.
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Gooru is a free search engine for learning developed by a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization whose mission is to honor the human right to education. http://www.goorulearning.org
Gooru is a search engine for learning that allows you to explore and study over 2,600 standards-aligned and personalized study guides. Study guides cover 5th-12th grade math and science topics, and resources include digital textbooks, animations, instructor videos and more. All resources are vetted and organized by teachers or Gooru's content experts, so you don't have to sort through the mess of subpar educational resources available online yourself.
Gooru also makes it easy for you to connect with your worldwide peers to make learning a social experience. Post questions to an active community of students, teachers and experts, or find friends and peers to study with.
Best of all, Gooru adapts to you. Based on the topics you study and your performance on self-assessments, Gooru suggests resources and study guides that will help you master the concepts. You can track your study habits and monitor your performance on any of the topics you study.
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The software behind the film Minority Report, where Tom Cruise speeds through video on a large screen using only hand gestures, is making its way into the real world.
The interface developed by scientist John Underkoffler has been commercialised by the Los Angeles firm Oblong Industries as a way to sift through massive amounts of video and other data.
PM - Now what are the educational implications of this? How can we use it in Tertiary (apart from research)?
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Hill University comes up with new technological advancement in Online Education allowing increased practical coursework through online lab experiments hence facilitating the instruction of Applied Online Courses Offered at the Institution.
The Schools of Applied Sciences and Arts at Hill University will provide its students with Lab Practical Kits at a very minimal cost at the time of their registration in the course, which will allow them to carry out experimentation at home under the exquisite guidance of the institution’s expert faculty.
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The rush to capitalise on online learning has been with us for a long time now, but across a number of contexts I am involved in currently it would be fair to say the surge has increased significantly.
"Yes, but without a Queen you are only providing half a learning realm. If Content is King, then Communication is Queen. Facilitation or interaction might have been better words for it, but it didn't alliterate quite as well..."
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Google has recently launched a great new service geared towards education. This is called YouTube Curriculum and is designed to help students learn about digital citizenship ( I will soon post a guide on digital citizenship here). Via Jon Samuelson
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Today online learning can’t compensate for the self-selection bias. But in 10 years it will be a very different story.
Is online education effective? Over the past decade virtually every study on the question has demonstrated that it is as effective as traditional classroom delivery. But as none of these studies randomly assign students to classroom or online delivery, what they actually mean is that students who are inclined to select an online program perform as well or better than students who are not so inclined. This self-selection bias should be a primary concern for anyone interested in the future of online education.
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Get CloudOn on the App Store. See screenshots and ratings, and read customer reviews.
CloudOn brings Microsoft Office® to your iPad and links it to your Box, Dropbox and Google Drive accounts.
KF: It seems quite slow over my work wifi but it does appear to have a wide ranging set of functions. Have just edited a PPT file from Dropbox using this and it worked well - if a bit sluggish in response.
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Gone is the time when PowerPoint was the most impressive communication technology in the lecture hall.
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Enter Evernote. For students, it’s an invaluable way to organize research and streamline the collaboration process. Here are some examples of how Evernote simplifies the student research process. Via Kathleen Cercone
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The most important technology for higher education to watch in 2012 will be the utilization of HTML5. Not because HTML5 offers the most efficient way to handle multimedia, graphic layout or utilization of local resources. No, it is about the adoption of a Web presentation foundation that will stimulate mobile and e-book proliferation to usher in a new era of computing. For mobile it simplifies the playing field and for e-books it allows for the enhancements that have always been expected.
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KF: Howard Rheingold is developing a clickable content map for use in his classes. Probably worth watching this develop.
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Education buzzwords have for a long time driven me insane as we spend our lives in schools latching on to phrase after phrase that tries to make us sound more knowledgeable without actually being more knowledgeable. I fear sometimes us “tech geeks” in schools ( definitely me included) are getting caught in the same trap as we move from one innovation to the next just to look more tech savvy than the next guy. This is a long list of edtech trends and pedagogies. It can seem quite daunting to the uninitiated and we can scare them off trying something really useful if keep pushing for more change. Via Donna Browne
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Developing effective elearning requires expertise in Project Management, Computer-based Instructional Design, Multimedia Design, Instructional Technology a...
Read more: http://leanforward.com/what-does-it-take-to-create-effective-e-learning/
Via Gust MEES
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Even as we are seeing more schools and educators transform the way they teach and learn with technology, many more are not. Some of the reasons for not embracing technology have to do with several misconceptions.
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A wealth of resources on a range of classic topics like authentic learning, concpet mapping, iPads in the classroom, online colaboration and more..
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“The instructor-made videos helped me understand the material better.” (Rose, 2011). 100% of the students taking an online course indicated some level of agreement with the above statement. Thoug...
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How can you shift your classroom away from lecture and toward inquiry?
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Is it possible to gain the education and the intellectual development associated with a traditional bricks-and-mortar university curriculum through a largely online course of study?
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http://elearningindustry.com In this post I will present you a list of Free Authoring Tools that you can use in your eLearning design and development process.
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The Flipped Classroom: The Full picture is not about watching videos as homework. Via JackieGerstein Ed.D.
Alyssa T. Cerroni's curator insight,
June 23, 2017 8:33 AM
"The Flipped Classroom: The Full picture is not about watching videos as homework."
This quick video de-bunks myths about The Flipped Classroom and gives a holistic picture of how The Flipped Classroom works. The Flipped Classroom is experiential and leads to concept exploration. 
Dena Van den Bosch's curator insight,
June 27, 2017 3:05 PM
"Now what?" is the most important question in a #flipclass
La French witch's curator insight,
July 23, 2017 3:43 AM
Une illustration du concept de classe inversée. Vidéo en anglais.
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Even in this ideal environment, the temptation of digital distraction was too high. I might view this akin to addictive behavior now, and realize that students need more explicit support in order to do the right thing for their learning. I think that the biggest mistake that I made was to fail to have explicit guidelines for use of technology Via Nik Peachey
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"The Centre for Learning and Performance Technologies (C4LPT) is a free resource site on the use of new technologies for learning and performance. It is one of the world’s most visited learning sites on the Web, with over 100,000 monthly visits. C4LPT was founded by Jane Hart."
Hart has divided the collection of over 2000 tools into 12 categories; within each one are several sub-categories. Every chosen tool is described briefly. -JL Via Jim Lerman
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