by COREY MURRAY, EdTech Magazine

Buoyed by her own experiences, and with support from administrators at Cyprus High School in the Anaheim Union High School District, Citlau launched one of the school system’s first online courses. Five years later, the district boasts a full slate of curriculum-approved, teacher-generated online courses, with 23 optional classes scheduled for the 2013–2014 school year. That success is just one of the reasons why iNACOL, a national nonprofit that supports the use of technology in U.S. schools, and the Southern Regional Education Board chose Citlau as their National Online Teacher of the Year. I was fortunate to catch up with Citlau while she was in Washington, D.C., last week to meet with education officials and representatives for learning management systems provider Blackboard, Inc. Itching to launch an online course at your school? Here are five steps the nation’s best online teacher says every program should take.

http://www.edtechmagazine.com/k12/article/2013/05/5-must-have-elements-every-online-class

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by Yale Daily News

Following a December report that encouraged the University to prioritize online education, Yale is answering the call. In a Wednesday email to the Yale community, Provost Benjamin Polak announced the University’s new partnership with Coursera, an online education platform used by Princeton, Columbia, Stanford and the University of Pennsylvania. Polak also announced the creation of a new standing committee on online education and the appointment of music professor Craig Wright to the new position of academic director of online education. In the email, Polak stressed the importance of using online education to explore new teaching strategies that can be used in Yale classrooms.

http://yaledailynews.com/crosscampus/2013/05/15/yale-expands-online-education-appoints-new-director/

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by Aarti Shahani, Marketplace

Some of the nation’s most elite professors are taking up a new teaching fad: Massively Open Online Courses. MOOCs rhymes with nukes, and the reach is about the same. These classes streamed on the Internet have millions of students around the world enrolling. They’re free of charge. But when you add up all the work it takes on and off camera to make a MOOC, the cost to professors is pretty high. As Prof. Kevin Werbach can attest, the life of a MOOCs rockstar is not pure glitz.

http://www.marketplace.org/topics/tech/education/life-online-professor

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by Christina Farr, Venture Beat

 Why do students cheat — and how are they getting away with it? One unintended use for massive open online courses, dubbed “MOOCs,” is to help professors better understand the mechanics of cheating in online learning. Bernard Bull, an assistant vice president for academics at Concordia University Wisconsin, will ask his class to cheat for the purposes of anthropological research. Students will then be asked to disclose exactly how they cheated. The assignment is a unit in a new class, “Understanding Cheating in Online Courses,” which is offered through the Canvas MOOC platform run by Instructure, a course-management company.

http://venturebeat.com/2013/05/14/new-online-course-encourages-students-to-cheat-for-science/

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by Globe Newswire

Saylor.org, the free education initiative of the Saylor Foundation, announced today the launch of its new K-12 program of open online courses. The academic courses are aligned to the Common Core State Standards and use open educational resources (OER) extensively, making the courses, as well as their contents, widely reusable by students, teachers, and parents nationwide. “People want lessons that are good quality, targeted to the right grade level, that they can trust,” said Angelyn Pinter, K-12 Content Development Manager at the Saylor Foundation. “With something like hundreds, or even thousands, of lesson plan databases for teachers, we’re here to vet and organize existing content. Saylor.org can become your first go-to for teachers, students, and parents.”

http://online.wsj.com/article/PR-CO-20130515-912759.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

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By Ben Waber, Technology Review

Data science and personal information are converging to shape the Internet’s most powerful and surprising consumer products. Can we use data about people to alter physical reality, even in real time, and improve their performance at work or in life? That is the question being asked by a developing field called augmented social reality. Here’s a simple example. A few years ago, with Sandy Pentland’s human dynamics research group at MIT’s Media Lab, I created what I termed an “augmented cubicle.” It had two desks separated by a wall of plexiglass with an actuator-controlled window blind in the middle. Depending on whether we wanted different people to be talking to each other, the blinds would change position at night every few days or weeks.

http://www.technologyreview.com/news/514371/augmenting-social-reality-in-the-workplace/

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By Milwaukee Journal Sentinal

Universities are taking online degrees to a whole new level, giving college students opportunities and experiences that are not often found in a traditional college classroom. Online education has become a desirable choice of study at colleges and universities. More students are pursuing online degrees than in previous years. Millions of students are taking advantage of online education to fulfill academic opportunities and achieve professional success previously unavailable with traditional forms of study. Catering to these students in a virtual setting requires customization of programs, something George Washington University’s School of Business is doing with its connected Digital Community. This Digital Community creates classroom conversations that might not be available in the traditional classroom setting; for example, connecting business students with mentors working in Shanghai, or having an alum share business management tips from an office in Los Angeles. These business programs are 99 percent online, allowing students to study anywhere – on campus, in a study abroad setting or while already employed – and connecting them to the same professors teaching the classroom courses.

http://www.jsonline.com/sponsoredarticles/education/online-college-courses-connect-students-digitally8077710101-207232781.html

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By Aimee Claire, TSB Contributor

Young people in many countries across the world are increasingly taking advantage of online learning as part of their overall education, often with the goal of entering a profession or getting a step ahead in a profession in which they have already a foothold. This is as true of young professionals in McKinney, as it is of aspiring young lawyers, doctors, business managers, and others in towns and cities everywhere.

http://townsquarebuzz.com/ams/52013/young-professionals-attracted-online-learning/0/ams/52013

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by Troy Onink, Forbes

Georgia Institute of Technology has announced a partnership with Udacity to offer an online Masters Degree in Computer Science for $7,000, down 80% from the existing cost of $40,000 for the on-campus, instructor led program. Suddenly, masters programs around the country will have to compete with Georgia Tech‘s $7,000 program, and that won’t be easy or fast in coming. The traditionally taught graduate degree in computer science at Georgia Tech is a very well regarded program that is in high demand and has very positive outcomes in terms of jobs and earnings. Georgia Tech graduates tend to do very well in earnings upon graduation, especially in computer science. Now students from around the world will be able to obtain the same degree online at an 80% discount – which is, no doubt, a sonic boom rattling the windows in the offices of college administrators across the country.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/troyonink/2013/05/15/georgia-tech-udacity-shock-higher-ed-with-7000-degree/

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By Tanya Roscorla, Center for Digital Ed

A world without network, storage and computer barriers could become reality if research and education network Internet2 has its way. The organization has set a high goal of knocking down these barriers in higher education. As the fields of digital content, video and cloud storage continue to advance, they provide opportunities to recreate an educational experience that has no limits. “We don’t want barriers to be the network, we don’t want barriers to be the storage, we don’t want barriers to be the computer,” said Shelton Waggener, senior vice president of Internet2. “If we can share and access the total capacity of higher education, we can live in a barrierless world.”

http://www.centerdigitaled.com/news/Internet2-Seeks-to-Knock-Down-Technology-Barriers.html

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By Dylan Scott, Center for Digital Ed

The conventional wisdom these days is that the United States needs more people trained in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). In a future with global competition built around advanced manufacturing, the thinking goes, young Americans are going to need those skills to succeed. How to translate that need into a revamped K-12 and higher education system, though, is an ongoing debate. President Obama wants to recruit and train 100,000 new teachers in the STEM subjects. The Common Core standards, which will be implemented in nearly every state starting next year, are tailored toward STEM. But a few conservative governors want to go a step farther. They’ve suggested it’s time to stop spending money on a traditional liberal arts education and instead focus our resources on classes and degrees connected directly to those new jobs in advanced manufacturing.

http://www.centerdigitaled.com/news/Should-Universities-Move-Away-From-a-Liberal-Arts-Education.html

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By Tanya Roscorla, Center for Digital Ed

Predictive analytics is on the rise in education, being used to pull together student information such as GPAs, majors and course success — all to project how well individual students will do in certain classes. But not to worry; predictive analytics won’t replace instruction. According to education software company Desire2Learn, it will help colleges serve students better.

http://www.centerdigitaled.com/news/Predictive-Analytics-is-Not-a-Scary-Machine.html

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by the News Herald

Perhaps overlooked in the frantic activity at the end of the 2013 legislative session was the bold progress Florida made regarding distance learning. Distance learning, or online education, is an evolving trend nationwide. And Florida accelerated that trend when Gov. Rick Scott signed an education bill in April that would expand online education at the state’s public colleges and universities. This is a big step forward. The new law affirms education doesn’t have to be tied to a campus or brick-and-mortar classrooms. The law also stresses employers’ needs. Online education will help employers train their employees.

http://www.newsherald.com/opinions/editorials/revolution-in-learning-1.141343

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David F. Carr, Information Week

What do you get when you cross learning software with predictive analysis more often seen in movie rental sites? You might get something like the latest release of learning management system (LMS) Desire2Learn. The upgrade, released last week, brings predictive analytics to both students and instructors, says Desire2Learn. For students, it offers Amazon.com-style “if you liked that course, you’ll probably like this course” recommendations to help them choose classes they are most likely to succeed in. For instructors, it offers feedback on which students are in trouble.

http://www.informationweek.com/education/online-learning/desire2learn-predicts-students-best-clas/240154683

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By William J. Owen, Online Learning Tips

Oh, no! I have to take a college math course!

“I’m not good at math.” …. “I don’t like math.” …. “I’ve never been good at it.” ….. “No one in my family has ever done well in math.”…. “I’m too old to take math.” ….. “Math takes too much time.” “I never used math and don’t expect I ever will use it.” These are some typical reactions from many working adults when they get the news that they need to take a mathematics or statistics course as part of their degree programs. It’s really devastating news for many working adult students and they come up with a lot of reasons to fail. Typically, the reasons are very personal and negative. While the students might arrive in a mathematics course with negative attitudes and perceptions, it is possible to overcome them and succeed in the course. I’ve found that there are several ways to find success in taking a college math course. I’ll address three of those and provide some tips for math success for busy, working adults.

http://onlinelearningtips.com/2013/05/13/math-success-tips-for-working-adults/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=math-success-tips-for-working-adults

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by the Billings Gazette

The Billings Career Center library has several bookshelves. But most of its space is occupied by rows of computers with flat-screen monitors — and students at the keyboards. On one morning last week, one side of the library was filled with English students writing literary analyses of “Catcher in the Rye” on computers. On the other side, home construction and geometry students sat at a bank of computers to take a national standardized test to earn three college credits. The testing was made possible through a partnership between the Career Center and City College. “We are paperless out here,” said Scott Anderson, Career Center principal. “We have a smart board in every classroom. We do everything digitally.”

http://billingsgazette.com/news/opinion/editorial/gazette-opinion/gazette-opinion-school-technology-integral-to-student-success/article_d4ef733e-5863-56cd-bb44-a74113ee6833.html

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By John Pavlus, Technology Review

Why should only computers, smartphones, and tablets be able to send a tweet? In the hopes of challenging this idea, Twitter recently developed a whimsical tweet-enabled cuckoo clock. It uses a toolkit that could help other designers and engineers test ways for new products to contribute to, and feed on, the social network’s chatter. Twitter created the clock, called #Flock, last month in partnership with London-based technology consultancy Berg; the clock responds to incoming tweets, @-messages, and retweets by animating small wooden puppets. The toolkit made by Berg is designed to make it easier for consumer-tech companies to prototype similar “connected products” and experiment with their novel user experiences.

http://www.technologyreview.com/news/514541/twitter-tests-a-toolkit-that-puts-the-internet-in-things/

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By Duncan Geere, Technology Review

Data science and personal information are converging to shape the Internet’s most powerful and surprising consumer products. “We want to provide people with a perfect photographic memory,” says Martin Källström, CEO of Memoto. His startup is creating a tiny clip-on camera that takes a picture every 30 seconds, capturing whatever you are looking at, and then applies algorithms to the resulting mountain of images to find the most interesting ones. Just 36 by 36 by 9 millimeters, the inconspicuous plastic camera has a lot crammed inside. The most important component is a five-megapixel image sensor originally designed for mobile phones. An ARM 9 processor running Linux powers a program that wakes the device twice a minute; takes a picture and a reading from the GPS sensor, accelerometer, and magnetometer; and promptly puts the device back to sleep.

http://www.technologyreview.com/news/514361/logging-life-with-a-lapel-camera/

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by Harvard Magazine

THE 2013 Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching (HILT) conference, which nearly filled the largest Science Center lecture hall on May 8, demonstrated wide interest across the University in improving pedagogy. Ever since HILT was launched in the fall of 2011, during Harvard’s 375th-anniversary celebration, it has catalyzed campus conversation on cognition and learning, course and curriculum design, classroom spaces, educational technology, assessment, and more, through an annual symposium and a series of innovation grants to faculty members. This second symposium—addressed by both the president and the provost, and attended by several deans among the audience of hundreds—suggested the variety and reach of educational experiments under way involving professors in every Harvard school, and their hundreds or thousands of students.

http://harvardmagazine.com/2013/05/harvard-learning-and-teaching-innovations

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by Associated Press

In teacher Rob Lamb’s chemistry class, students are embracing a new classroom concept being used this school year in a few classes at Pattonville High School. Called a flipped classroom, students review a short lecture video at home and do what’s considered homework or labwork in class, enabling them to take a more in-depth look at a subject or get more teacher help, the Suburban Journals of Greater St. Louis (http://bit.ly/112Vgh4) reported. Lamb said the flipped classroom has given him more time to focus on concepts, do more labs and spend more one-on-one time working with students and answering questions.

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