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New Initiative Throws Open Access To Arabic Science Education
New initiative to provide free, open access, high-quality education materials in Arabic, with a focus on science and technology. Read More »
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New Promethean CEO Eyes Move To Open Source
In recent years, schools have shifted away from a front-of-the-classroom approach to one that puts tablets and laptops in each student's hands. Those devices have carved into other education technology businesses, namely interactive whiteboards, which offered educators a way to enhance the front-of-the-classroom experience. Read More »
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New Publication Spotlight: Health Informatics Education And Training Programs: Important Factors To Consider
What does the field of health informatics have to do with health workers? A new CapacityPlus technical brief explains that health informatics—the process of making health-related data accessible and useful for decision-making—is of growing importance [...]. Read More »
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News Corp.’s Amplify Is Latest With A MOOC For The High School Crowd
News Corp.’s education division Amplify is the latest to roll out a massive open online course (MOOC) for high school students. Read More »
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Nigeria: Capacity Plus Equips 874 Health Students
Capacity Plus (Nigeria) has presented 874 students drawn from various health institutions of learning across 23 states of the country with different categories of scholarship and bursary award inorder to encourage more enrolment of people as health workers in the intent to increase numbers of practicing professionals. Read More »
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Nobel Laureate Randy Schekman Advocates Open Access During Event Monday
It is time to move away from print journals and toward digital publications, according to UC Berkeley’s most recent Nobel laureate, Randy Schekman, at an open access event Monday evening. Read More »
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Nurturing Health Innovation In Africa: 13 Ways To Boost Research
...One continent-wide approach to investing in research in Africa will not suit the needs of every country. In 2009, approximately one third of all African scientists or people with engineering degrees were working and living abroad...
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OECD 2012 Economic Survey of the United States: The United States Needs to Foster Education and Innovation to Keep Its Cutting Edge
So what does an economic survey of the United States have to do with health care? Simply that we cannot expect to have a superior health care system that serves everyone well if we don't fulfill our citizen obligation to demand greater government oversight and intervention in education, employment, and especially in the intolerable rise in income inequality. Current trends in the United States are not encouraging.
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ONC Releases I.T. Training Materials
The Office of the National Coordinator for HIT has made available at no cost an updated version of teaching materials used in the HITECH-funded community college health I.T. training programs. Read More »
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One In The Eye For The Sutton Trust's Open-Access Ideas
Something approaching a frisson of horror appears to strike our politicians at the very thought of debating selection openly. I was trying for three days last week to get a squeak out of both the Department for Education and the Labour opposition over what they thought about the education charity Sutton Trust's founder Sir Peter Lampl's plans for "open access" independent schools, ie, where pupils are selected on merit rather than ability to pay. Read More »
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Open Access And The Duty Of Higher Education
I think we all agree higher education is far too expensive. One could even argue that ...higher education's current model is unsustainable. It's broken, and it's a hoarder. Higher education doesn't hoard typical items, yet the entire institution of higher education should be on A&E's television show Hoarders. Read More »
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Open Access Biblical Studies Courses
A couple years ago, Sebastian Thrun, a robotics professor at Stanford started the first MOOC (massively open online course). Since that time, open access education has spread broad and wide, with major universities publishing whole courses to the internet for free. [...] In this setting, I have found a few open access biblical studies courses worth looking at. Read More »
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Open Access To Public MOOCs
A couple of recent articles on the use of MOOCs (massive open online courses) in California colleges and universities raise an interesting ethical question -- one that hasn't attracted much attention, but certainly merits it. The issue I have in mind concerns the ownership and control of access to MOOCs produced at publicly funded universities. Read More »
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Open Educational Resource University Is Launched
Free, credit-bearing online learning has become accessible for students worldwide. The Open Educational Resource university, or OERu – a project of the UNESCO-Commonwealth of Learning OER Chair network – was unveiled on 1 November, promising to “revolutionise tertiary learning”. Read More »
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Open Educational Resources Expand Access To Higher Education In The United States
Leaders in the Obama Administration, in state governments, and in corporate America have acknowledged the urgency of increasing access to higher education in the United States – particularly through community colleges. These leaders also recognize the importance of improving completion rates and educational outcomes for those who enroll.
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