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MOOC students hired for IT jobsAccording to employers, It professionals who want career advancements can make a career change to tech by taking a MOOC in a technical topic. "We're not theorists here. We're actually buildings things," said Chad Morris, product lead at Mandrill, the transactional email service from MailChimp. "We're really looking at what it is you've actually done." According to him traditional education and online learning hold the same value.
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CopyrightX: Harvard Law School's first global MOOCCopyrightX is a networked course that explores the current law of copyright and the ongoing debates concerning how that law should be reformed. The design includes sections taught by a Harvard Teaching Fellow, and "satellite" courses based in countries outside the US, each taught by an expert in copyright law.
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Evolution of online educationCreativeLive, a San Francisco studio offers free, live online workshops taught by experts. There are courses on photography, design, the music business, e-mail marketing, and other hands-on topics. It has launched five always-on channels of content--a mix of live and re-broadcast shows. There are 2 million plus viewers with 50% of international viewers.
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A U.S. Governor reviews proposals of digital learningGovernor Nathan Deal, Georgia is to review the recommendations of a task force to use digitally-based programs to improve student achievement. It has recommended a increasing broadband Internet access at all Georgia schools and encourages educators to try transitioning from textbooks to digital content.
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Standard of Higher Education FallsThe lecturers around the world in average has only a bachelor's degree. Speaking at the annual conference of the Society for Research into Higher Education, held in Newport, South Wales on 11 December, Philip Altbach, director of the Center for International Higher Education at Boston College said “My guess…is that the average person who is standing before a class in a post-secondary institution around the world today has the average qualification of a bachelor’s degree only. Pretty shocking, but I think true”.
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Wipro Unveils an online program in IndiaWipro Ltd. in partnership with with Firstnaukri.com unveiled an online program to train undergraduate students in finance and accounts to enhance their job skills. It is a 24-hr program which consists of modules that give students flexibility to work over two months along with their graduation course. Successful students would be certified.
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Web textbook firm in U.S.Boundless Learning Inc., an online textbook firm offers some e-textbooks for free, and most of the books at the cost of $20 and include interactive features, such as built-in quizzes and flash cards. “We’ve evolved on a number of fronts,” said Ariel Diaz, chief executive of Boundless Learning.
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Moocs in Higher Education Considered by PCASTThe U.S. President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) released a report on opportunities for advanced education technologies to improve educational outcomes and lower costs in higher education. In the report PCAST explores the potential of recent advances in technology—with a focus on Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)—to expand access to higher education opportunities.
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Video Conferencing services in Distance EducationAlong with Pexip Inc., a Norwegian company, Indiana University expanded videoconference services to its eight campuses. “With thousands of students, faculty and staff all over the state, connecting with people all over the world, Indiana University requires a videoconferencing system that is robust enough and flexible enough to adapt to the future,” said Anastasia Morrone, IU associate vice president for learning technologies. “By adding Pexip Infinity to IU's current suite of collaborative technologies, the university gains the edge it needs in our age of global, high-tech communication.”
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Higher Education for All: Crucial for Indonesia's GrowthAccording to a report from the Boston Consulting Group in May this year 2013, by 2020, Indonesian companies will have difficulties in filling half of their entry-level positions with qualified candidates. The engineering field is expected to experience the worse shortages, with the shortfall of engineering graduates expected to increase to more than 70 percent in 2025 from a 40 percent shortage this year. It is partly due to the lower enrollment rates in tertiary education and inequality in higher education.