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Tagxedo - Tag Cloud with Styles How Online Education Is Changing the Way We Learn [INFOGRAPHIC] Over the past decade or so, the Internet has become a huge source of information and education, especially for those who might be short on time, money or other resources. And it's not just crowdsourced data collections like Wikipedia or single-topic blogs that encourage individual learning; huge corporations and nonprofits are making online education and virtual classrooms a very formal affair these days. From the first online classes (which were conducted by the University of Phoenix in 1989) to the present day, when online education is a $34 billion industry, more and more students are finding new life and career education opportunities online. Check out this infographic from OnlineEducation.net about how the world of online learning has changed and grown over the years. Click image to see larger version. [source: Online Education] Top image based on a photograph from iStockphoto user flyingdouglas.
UC Berkeley on iTunes U Bounce – A fun and easy way to share ideas on a website Push Pop Press — About Us Last year Push Pop Press set off to re-imagine the book. We created a new way of publishing and exploring text, images, audio, video and interactive graphics, then teamed up with Melcher Media and Al Gore to create a new kind of book. The result is Al Gore's Our Choice, which was released earlier this year. The response has been incredible. Tech columnist David Pogue of The New York Times summed it up by saying: “this is one of the most elegant, fluid, impressive apps you've ever seen.
Khan Academy Qwotebook OER: The Myth of Commercial Textbook Reliability | College Open Textbooks Blog An “OER” is an open education resource and the most common example is an open textbook. An open textbook is a book, most often electronic, that is licensed in a way that allows re-use, repurposing, editing, and republishing. One of the main advantages in an open textbook, apart from the fact that they are free, is that open textbooks can be edited by the instructor. Some “open” textbooks managed by commercial publishers may not be editable at the sentence level. One of the criticisms leveled at open textbooks is that the quality somehow suffers because they do not have the “imprimatur” of the commercial publishers. According to the Educause article “7 Things You Should Know About Open Textbooks,” ”The traditional publishing model features robust editorial..mechanisms designed to ensure the quality…of printed textbooks.” I will let these examples suffice for now. How did we get here? Lets do our job as educators and not rely on commercial businesses to teach our students.
Business | Video Courses on Academic Earth An undergraduate business program educates students on the fundamentals they need in order to become business leaders and successful careerists, regardless of the specific career grads find themselves in. The curriculum, which often includes online business courses, focuses on the essential critical thinking skills, decision-making techniques, and innovative problem-solving needed to prepare students for a diverse, and sometimes amorphous, marketplace. Business degrees can prepare undergrads for entry-level positions in a staggering amount of fields, and can also spur career growth for professionals already working in business. Typical programs are quite broad, offering a range of specialized concentrations. The business degree is the most popular degree conferred on undergraduates in the U.S., according to a study by the National Center for Education Statistics. Employers seek business school graduates for entry-level jobs because of the breadth the degree provides.
TypeWith.me: Live Text Document Collaboration! Inkling Raises $17M for Digital Textbooks - Liz Gannes - Media Inkling, the San Francisco-based maker of interactive iPad textbooks (see D9 demo video here), has raised $17 million in Series B funding led by Tenaya Capital and including Jafco Ventures, Pearson Education and Sequoia Capital. Inkling CEO Matt MacInnis, citing IBISWorld data, noted in a recent interview that the U.S. textbook market was worth $16 billion in 2010 — versus $15 billion for “trade books” (fiction, literary non-fiction, everything else). That’s depicted in the chart below. Inkling has 60 employees and hundreds of offshore workers who help format books, which MacInnis said he expects to increase to thousands next year. Today, Inkling’s best sellers are medical textbooks. MacInnis said Inkling will also soon expand beyond textbooks, though he’s keeping the details under wraps for now. Tagged with: D9, funding, IBISWorld, Inkling, iPad, JAFCO Ventures, Matt MacInnis, Pearson Education, Sequoia Capital, Tenaya Capital, textbooks