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Udacity's Sebastian Thrun, Godfather Of Free Online Education, Changes Course
[...] It begins with a celebrated Stanford University academic who decides that he isn't doing enough to educate his students. The Professor is a star, regularly packing 200 students into lecture halls, and yet he begins to feel empty. What are 200 students in an age when billions of people around the world are connected to the Internet? Read More »
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UK House Of Commons Select Committee Publishes Report Criticising RCUK’s Open Access Policy
The House of Commons Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) Committee has today published a critical report on the Open Access (OA) policy introduced on April 1st by Research Councils UK (RCUK). Read More »
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Unintentional Benefits Of Open Access: The Broader Impact Of Making Publications Free
[...] But now we’ve moved into a world where everything is done electronically. Through the power of PubMed, Google Scholar and numerous others, you can obtain PDFs of many articles via your institution. And now, many of those articles are available under Open Access rules – so anyone can access them, regardless of academic affiliation. [...] Read More »
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Universities Push Back Against Access Copyright Lawsuit
Students, educators, and librarians have come out strongly in opposition to the Access Copyright lawsuit launched earlier this month against York University. Read More »
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University System Of Maryland To Test Open-Source Pilot Program
A student-driven initiative plans to turn the page on skyrocketing textbook costs by promoting an affordable, online educational resource that’s picking up steam across the nation: open-source textbooks. Read More »
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US Backs Push For open Access Textbooks In Arabic
The United States has backed a project that aims to translate American textbooks into Arabic and make them available without copyrights restrictions to educators and students in the Middle East. Read More »
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USDA Announces Investments To Expand Distance Learning And Telemedicine Opportunities In Rural Areas
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that the Obama Administration is investing in rural telecommunications equipment to help expand access to education, create jobs and improve health care in 25 states. Read More »
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VA Eyes Cash Prizes To Generate Ideas For New Health Record
The Veterans Affairs Department plans to develop its next generation electronic health record through challenges and cash prize competitions, a tactic that proved successful on previous projects such as one to provide patients with online access to their health records.
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VA Launches New Hotline For Women Veterans
As part of an ongoing campaign to appeal to female veterans, the Veterans Affairs Department last week established a hotline exclusively for women to answer questions about services like health care, education benefits and claims. Read More »
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Veterans Affairs Department Appoints New CTO
New CTO Marina Martin broke fresh ground as an entrepreneur in government, a Presidential Innovation Fellow and as senior adviser to federal CTO Todd Park. Read More »
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Virtuabotix & Artec Make It Easier To Teach Robotics, Science & Technology
It can be difficult to teach robotics, science and technology in fun and engaging ways. Because of this, Virtuabotix is working to grow its already expansive line of Science, Technology, Engineering, & Math (STEM) kits to help make it possible to teach these subjects in schools and at home...
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VistA Education Meeting - New VistA Class At SUNY Albany
New York State is currently performing the largest deployment of VistA in the United States (outside of the Department of Veterans Affairs). This development is taking place at the Office of Mental Health (OMH), and it is bringing together State Government, Industry and Academia in an open and agile collaborative environment, creating the perfect conditions for promoting the growth of the VistA open source community. Read More »
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Washington Makes An Appeal To New York Tech Entrepreneurs
Todd Park, the chief technology officer of the U.S., sought to prove at the New York Tech Meetup that, yes, the White House is becoming more tech savvy. Read More »
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We’re Not No. 1! We’re Not No. 1!
...a major new ranking of livability in 132 countries puts the United States in a sobering 16th place. We underperform because our economic and military strengths don’t translate into well-being for the average citizen. In the Social Progress Index, the United States excels in access to advanced education but ranks 70th in health, 69th in ecosystem sustainability, 39th in basic education, 34th in access to water and sanitation and 31st in personal safety...
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What Americans Keep Ignoring About Finland's School Success
The Scandinavian country is an education superpower because it values equality more than excellence. Read More »
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