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Yale partners with MOOC platform

Source: Yale Daily News

Five months after a faculty committee report re-emphasized the importance of online education initiatives at the University, Yale has decided to offer massive open online courses, or MOOCs, for the first time. Provost B ...
Full article at: Yale Daily News  More like this  3 days ago, 11:19pm CDT

Moth-inspired nanostructures take the color out of thin films

Source: PhysOrg.com

The nanostructures, inspired by the surface of a moth's eye, limit the amount of light reflected at the thin-film interfaces. Credit: Chih-hao Chang, North Carolina State University This image shows how moth-inspired n ...
Full article at: PhysOrg.com  More like this  4 days ago, 9:39am CDT

Rice University To Offer More Massive Online Courses

Source: KUHF Houston Galveston

Want to learn the basics of electrical engineering? Study Socrates? Or discuss how religion and hip hop intersect? Those are some of the newest online courses in development at Rice University. “It’s a massive open online class that the world has access ...
Full article at: KUHF Houston Galveston  More like this  May 10 2013, 6:27pm CDT

Massive Open Opportunity: Supporting MOOCs in Public and Academic Libraries

Source: Library Journal

If you’re an academic librarian, you’re probably already awash, at least peripherally, in news about MOOCs—massive open online courses have been touted as the next big thing in higher ed since they burst on the ...
Full article at: Library Journal  More like this  May 10 2013, 2:19pm CDT

Learn for Free with MOOCs

Source: U.S. News & World Report

Massive open online courses are new to higher education, but no one is quite sure how they will change the industry. Massive open online courses, or MOOCs, are a hot topic these days, particularly among a ...
Full article at: U.S. News & World Report  More like this  May 10 2013, 9:28am CDT

REPORTER’S NOTEBOOK: Sal Khan talks education styles

Source: The MIT News

Khan Academy founder gives talk at his alma mater On Wednesday, Salman A. Khan ’98, founder of Khan Academy, was brought to MIT by StartLabs to speak about starting Khan Academy and what he’s doing now. He fielded questions from MI ...
Full article at: The MIT News  More like this  May 10 2013, 1:44am CDT

Justin Michael @ Pepper Club

Source: Shenzhen Party

The native Californian may be better known to date for Billboard and Beatport chart success achieved through his progressive house and electronic-based output, but early influences including Nine Inch Nails, Bush and Nirvana refuse to be silen ...
Full article at: Shenzhen Party  More like this  May 9 2013, 8:56pm CDT

Education without limits

Source: Harvard Gazette

When he was filling out the forms to establish his new nonprofit in 2008, Salman Khan paused at the mission statement section. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology grad, a math and computer whiz with an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School, ...
Full article at: Harvard Gazette  More like this  May 9 2013, 4:30pm CDT

AnsibleWorks to Hold Inaugural AnsibleFest for Popular Ansible IT Automation Solution

Source: PRWeb

AnsibleWorks, Inc., the company behind Ansible, the popular Open Source IT automation management solution, announced today its inaugural AnsibleFest as a day-long user and developer conference. AnsibleFest will bring together Ansible users, dev ...
Full article at: PRWeb  More like this  May 9 2013, 10:45am CDT

Black Mountain SOLE Unveils Innovative Higher Education Alternative for Self-Directed and Lifelong Learners

Source: PRWeb

Given the chance, individuals can and will teach themselves virtually anything. Black Mountain SOLE (BMS) opens this year as the world’s first tuition-free, residential, self-organized learning environment for higher education. The novel institu ...
Full article at: PRWeb  More like this  May 9 2013, 7:21am CDT


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