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Common Online Learning Mistakes… And How to Avoid Them

December 15, 2009

Enrolling at the Wrong School Diploma mills are less prevalent than they used to be, but some students still waste time and money at schools that don’t adhere to industry standards. Find a program that is regionally or nationally accredited by an accrediting agency that is recognized by the U.S. Department of Education and/or CHEA. [...]

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Sclipo: Social Learning Revolution

May 8, 2009

Sclipo is a social learning network. Sclipo offers a revolutionary way to learn online by integrating rich educational applications – such as video and webcam – into a true social network platform. Sclipo helps you to teach and learn just about everything, from technology to languages or cooking, and connects you with people of common [...]

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2020 Forecast: Creating the Future of Learning

April 7, 2009

KnowledgeWorks and IFTF Present 2020 Forecast: Creating the Future of Learning. ‘Over the next decade, the most vibrant innovations in education will take place outside traditional institutions. This 2020 Forecast: Creating the Future of Learning presents a critical dilemma facing these institutions: how to reconcile bottom-up developments in education with the traditional top-down hierarchy that [...]

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Academic Earth (& YouTube EDU): Thousands of Video Lectures from the World’s Top Scholars

March 29, 2009

Academic Earth: Video Lectures from the World’s Top Scholars. ‘Academic Earth is an organization founded with the goal of giving everyone on earth access to a world-class education. As more and more high quality educational content becomes available online for free, we ask ourselves, what are the real barriers to achieving a world class education? [...]

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Google Apps Education Edition

February 25, 2009

Google Apps Education Edition. ‘Google Apps Education Edition is a free suite of hosted communication and collaboration applications designed for schools and universities. Google Apps included: Gmail (with voice and video chat and mobile access), Google Calendar, Google Talk (free calling VoIP/voicemail box, file transfer, group chat), Google Sites (website creation), Google Labs, Google Docs [...]

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Edmodo: Twitter for Teachers and Studentes

February 13, 2009

Edmodo – Free Private Microblogging For Education. From the FAQs: Edmodo is a private microblogging platform that teachers and students can use to send notes, links, files, alerts, assignments, and events to each other. Teachers sign up for accounts, and then create groups. Each group has a unique code which is distributed by the teacher [...]

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Collaborative e-Book: Twitter for Teachers

February 13, 2009

Twitter for Teachers: A Collaborate Effort to Teach Teachers about Twitter. ‘How would you like to co-author an e-book to teach educators about Twitter? This e-book is intended for use by teachers from primary, elementary, secondary and post-secondary schools. The contents of the book are made available under an attribution, non-commercial, share-alike Creative Commons license. [...]

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Writing Contest: SPENDonLIFE Blogging Scholarship

November 11, 2008

If you are a full or part-time student (at least 18 years old) of an accredited college or university and have a legitimate blog (no spam) then you qualify for the SPENDonLIFE $2000 Credit Blogging Scholarship. SPENDonLIFE is promoting a writing contest in which the students must blog about the importance of credit and how [...]

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