Washington University in St. Louis is gearing up for a big influx of students in 2013, but the school won’t have to expand campus resources. Instead, students will be able to take for-credit classes at Washington University online thanks to a new program that is launching in 2013 called Semester Online.
Thanks to a new commitment to fund two educational reform-focused Arch Grants by the John C. and Mary Kaye Fort Family Fund and St. Louis Regional Business Council (RBC), St. Louis is one step closer to becoming America’s thought leader on the future of education.
Coding education platform Treehouse is the first in the race to revolutionize web development education to get a traditional book deal. The series will be released by Wiley Publishing, starting with HTML5 Foundations by Matt West soon to be followed by CSS3 and iOS6 books. The team at Treehouse has generously decided to offer a digital copy of HTML5 Foundations for free to the first 10 people who comment on this post.
Onshore Outsourcing’s mission is to prevent foreign outsourcing by encouraging companies to outsource jobs to rural areas where jobs are needed the most.
The University of Missouri–St. Louis will welcome Apple executive Joel Davies as part of the Focus On Teaching and Technology Conference.
The concept of digital learning is taking over political discussions about education, and startups are rushing to fill the gap.
Education startup Edthena is looking to eliminate the traditional complications of helping teachers improve their craft by providing an online platform where educators can submit videos of themselves teaching and get targeted, appropriate feedback in time with their lessons.
Sebastian Thrun’s idea is to change the “pedagogical approach†in education by placing the emphasis on students solving problems themselves.
A Google-backed innovation community in Nairobi, Kenya, plans to build the first African supercomputer outside of South Africa, which backers hope will be a step toward a more self-sufficient technological infrastructure and community in the region.
Last night I received a push notification from a classmate at UChicago to join the official UChicago Facebook Group. Requiring a valid uchicago.edu email address to join, the group, like.
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