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In the last year, a new crop of online learning upstarts, such as Coursera, Udemy, Khan Academy and Codecademy, has attracted plenty of media attention and investor dollars for bringing quality educational content to K-12 and college schools, as well as lifelong learners.  But lynda.com, something of an old-hand when it comes to online education, has remained relatively quiet.

Now that it’s bringing on board a new CTO, however, it looks like the Carpinteria, Calif.-based company might h…………… continues on GigaOM

The State University System is investigating ways to expand online education as a way to help more Floridians earn college degrees.

A committee of the Board of Governors, which oversees Florida’s public universities, met Monday to discuss boosting the number of bachelor’s and graduate degrees that students can complete almost exclusively through online classes.

While the group did not make a decision, it did shy away from one of the most controversial ideas on the table — creating a new, fully-online university.

Some education leaders had spoken out against the idea, but some committee members also got sticker shock when they learned that it could cost an estimated $ 65 million to $ 70 million.

Higher education officials in Florida and around the country are taking a hard look at how to better use online programs to accommodate students needing more flexibility in their academic schedules — including working adults with families.

Most people don’t wake up in the morning thinking about how to best explain the financial collapse of the Thai baht in the 1990s. But most people aren’t Sal Khan.

It’s not much past 9 a.m., and Khan, 36, founder of the online educational non-profit Khan Academy, gets set to record his 3,081st video lecture in a small office with a view of air conditioning ducts.

“In 1997, you see, there was a devaluation of the Thai currency,” Khan says into a beefy microphone as he makes crude sketches on his monitor.

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Ever since quitting his job as a successful hedge-fund analyst two years ago to dedicate himself full time to this labor of love, Khan has managed to win fans worldwide and goad skeptical educators.

His simply narrated, faceless home videos on everything from algebra to French history have been viewed half a billion times. Last year, a number of schools began “flipping” their classrooms, having students study Khan videos by night and do homework with teachers by day.

In the process, Khan has fueled the debate over tech’s growing influence on education w…………… continues on Sci-Tech Today

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Online Education: Can I bet my career on it?

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Long-distance study is rising in popularity and cracking open a market for online educators whose infrastructure brings the portable classroom to life.

In 2010, more than 6.1 million students signed up for at least one online course, about 10 percent more than 5.5 million the previous year, reports the Sloan Consortium Survey of Online Learning.

“It’s scaling quickly,” said John Katzman, founder of 2tor Inc., a New-York based tech company that has partnered with universities including Georgetown, UNC and USC to build, administer and market online postgraduate degree programs that he says seriously compete with traditional on-campus study.

“By every metric, the quality of the students coming in and the quality of the work they are doing (according to the faculty) and the satisfaction of the students – I think we’ve made our case this is as good or better than the classroom program,” he said, adding 3,000 students age…………… continues on AsiaOne

The 2011 Sloan Survey of Online Learning shows that in the fall 2010 semester, about 6.1 million students across the nation were taking at least one online education class, marking a 10% increase from the previous year. Today, about 31% of all college students take at least one web-based course.

Given the popularity of online education, many schools across the country are finding ways to integrate the technology into their institutions. While some universities have added individual online classes or degree programs to their offerings, the University of South Carolina (USC) is taking this one step further by considering the creation of a new web-based college, the Daily Gamecock reports.

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This unique moment in human history offers an instructive lesson for tracking an emerging trend in K-12 education.

“This is the only time in world history when the digital immigrants are teaching the digital natives,” said Dr. David Dresslar, executive director of the Center of Excellence in Leadership of Learning at the University of Indianapolis.

Dresslar notes that this no longer will be true 10 years from now when today’s students are tomorrow’s teachers. At the moment, however, most teachers and most parents of schoolchildren did not grow up with the tech­nology that many students take for granted.

The Indiana Department of…………… continues on Daily Journal

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Ed Tech Glossary Clarifies E-Learning Terms

iNACOL, the International Association for K-12 Online Learning, has launched a publication called the Online Learning Definitions Project, a compendium of ed tech terms related to online and blended learning.

iNACOL is a non-profit advocacy and research organization that focuses on issues in K-12 virtual learning. It represents a broad spectrum of groups centered around education, including schools themselves, state and local education agencies, non-profit organizations, researchers, and various technology and resource providers.

iNACOL described the publication as the…………… continues on T.H.E. Journal

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