Florida Poised to Expand Online Providers
A Florida measure awaiting Gov. Rick Scott's signature would open the door to more online providers, including MOOCs. Read Full Post >
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May 13, 2013
April 30, 2013
Saying No to Online Learning? Hardly
The biggest lesson for schools is that this train has pretty much left the station. By some means, on some scale, every school will soon need to figure out how it will help its students avail themselves of online learning where it offers a clear advantage over completely school-based courses. Read Full Post >
April 25, 2013
Florida Investigation Criticizes K12 Inc. on Teacher Issues
A draft report by the Florida Department of Education's inspector general says the online company K12 Inc. provided inaccurate records of teachers' interactions with students. Read Full Post >
March 05, 2013
K12, Investors Reach Deal in Class-Action Securities Lawsuit
K12 Inc., a major for-profit provider of online education, has settled a class-action securities lawsuit and had parts of it dismissed, pending a federal court's approval. Read Full Post >
March 05, 2013
K12 Inc. Reaches Tentative Settlement in Investor Lawsuit
The for-profit online education provider has tentatively settled a lawsuit alleging the company misled investors, and other claims in the suit were dismissed. Read Full Post >
January 07, 2013
Symbiotic Brands: Borrowing the Prestige of Stanford
The brands of both Udacity and Coursera, like many academic brands, are composed out of affiliations with many other academic brands. What else do you think of when you think of these companies? Above all, you probably think of Stanford University. The founders of both companies were Stanford professors, and, in the usual story, the foundational event was when Sebastian Thrun taught an online artificial intelligence course at Stanford that attracted 160,000 students, of whom 23,000 finished the course. In this version of the story, the MOOCs leaped into the world out of the brow of Stanford University, much as the goddess Athena leaped fully formed and armored from the forehead of her father Zeus. Another god had to split Zeus's skull open with an axe to facilitate the birth, but so far the rise of the MOOCs has not been particularly traumatic for Stanford. The spawning of Udacity and Coursera has enhanced Stanford's reputation for both pedagogical and technological innovation. Read Full Post >
December 26, 2012
CommaSpaceErgo: Crowdsourcing Education's Trends, Stats, and Facts
We, the education community, are in desperate need of a repository for statistics and trends of all sorts in the learning landscape. Why not build it together? CommaSpaceErgo is born... Read Full Post >
December 18, 2012
Meekerpalooza 2012: How shifts in Internet usage will transform the education landscape
Let's take a look at the many ways that Internet trends in 2012 (as defined by the great Mary Meeker) may affect the K-12 landscape. Read Full Post >
December 14, 2012
Facilitating the Learning Experience
The results are in! As tuition rates rise through the roof, it turns out all that money is going to... rock climbing walls! What role should physical equipment and facilities play in education, both at the Higher Ed and K-12 level? How can we optimize these resources? Read Full Post >
May 14, 2012
Report: Full-Time Virtual Ed. Lacking Accountability
An NSBA report recommends educators demand more information about full-time virtual schools before using them for their students. Read Full Post >
