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Only On 8: Luna Talks Online Education Reform

The Idaho State Board of Education will vote Thursday on whether to require two online classes as part of the high school graduation requirements. It's been a controversial part of the Students Come First education reform plan. State [...]

Posted On : Nov, 03 2011 | Comments : 0

Hochberg: Online education business growing fast, without qu...

In 2007, the Texas Legislature created a pilot program for a clearinghouse for online classes, a place where a large school districts around the state could offer specialized courses remotely to rural students, kids with special needs, or [...]

Posted On : Nov, 02 2011 | Comments : 0

FORUM: Online education increases opportunity for all

Sometimes, challenges offer golden opportunities to be innovative. Educating our children during these tough times offers one such opportunity. I read a recent The Californian article from Jennifer Kabbany ("Online schooling offers n [...]

Posted On : Oct, 31 2011 | Comments : 0

Clemson to create online training

Clemson University will use a $2.3 million federal grant to develop new online training tools for factory-floor workers in two of South Carolina's most promising industries: aviation and automobile. The high-tech project will be de [...]

Posted On : Oct, 27 2011 | Comments : 0

Myths of Online Education

One of higher education’s biggest exports is skepticism. So it is perhaps unsurprising that, whereas many educators have questioned the virtue of online education, others would question the way in which the questioners have question [...]

Posted On : Oct, 22 2011 | Comments : 0

Harrison ushers in online education revolution

While recent headlines have criticized the for-profit sector of higher education, an objective examination reveals they are in many ways more responsive than nonprofit sector institutions to the needs of today’s students. Factors [...]

Posted On : Oct, 21 2011 | Comments : 0

Online Education Startup Gets $33 Million in Funding

Educational technology startup Knewton announced Thursday that it had received $33 million in new venture capital funding as it rolls out an online education platform that can be adapted to each student’s needs. The new stash, secur [...]

Posted On : Oct, 17 2011 | Comments : 0

Online education is changing school funding

The more students who go to your school, the more money that you get from the state Department of Education. But recent changes in state laws would require smaller school districts to pay more per student when it comes to providing online [...]

Posted On : Oct, 15 2011 | Comments : 0

Online education site raises $3 mil in a round led by Groupo...

Groupon co-founders Eric Lefkofsky and Brad Keywell have invested in online educational site (with one complicate name) Udemy through their venture capital fund Lightbank. Udemy just announced a $3 million Series A round of financing led [...]

Posted On : Oct, 13 2011 | Comments : 0

Online Education's Importance Confirmed by Release of Growth...

The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) recently released a report that highlights the increasingly large role online education plays in colleges and universities across the country. According to the report, between 2000 and 2 [...]

Posted On : Oct, 11 2011 | Comments : 0

Online education innovators should be wary

Some professors at elite universities are trying to devise a more economical university model, and they are using the Internet to do it. Sebastian Thrun, a Stanford professor, is an advocate of the online university and has ambitious g [...]

Posted On : Oct, 06 2011 | Comments : 0

An Online Education

After wading through the shallow waters of online extension courses, the University of California is ready to make the leap into the deep end, beginning with the UC Online Instruction Pilot Project in January 2012. The project plans to of [...]

Posted On : Oct, 05 2011 | Comments : 0

Maxwell: Online education mandate puts pressure on Florida's...

Florida legislators have strapped school districts with yet another expensive unfunded mandate. Gov. Rick Scott signed into law this year legislation that requires high school students to take at least one online class to graduate. The la [...]

Posted On : Oct, 04 2011 | Comments : 0

Online Education Startup-Eduora.com Raises Funding From Seed...

Venture Capital has invested in Bangalore based online education start-up - Eduora. Eduora Technologies Pvt Ltd was founded in March'11 by Nagarjun Palavalli. Eduora is building an online, cloud based platform that combines the social [...]