Ten technology developers have won contracts to develop units for a group of states seeking “open educational resources.”
The Portland, Ore.-based company provides open educational resources for about 50 high-enrollment subjects on college campuses, with plans to expand that number to 75.
A consumer group is urging the giant technology services company Google to take a stronger stance in supporting net neutrality—the idea of a free and openly accessible Internet.
Free, digital textbooks for K-12 that adapt to learners’ abilities and preferences are under development by OpenStax, a Rice University initiative.
OpenEd, a free catalog of more than a million Web-based resources for the common core, raised $2 million in its first round of venture-capital funding.
The Obama administration, in the latest phase of its “ConnectED” plan, has launched a website to direct K-12 schools to digital products offered by technology companies.
Iranian students have regained access to U.S.-based MOOCs following the authorization of certain educational exchanges between the two countries.
Twelve ed-tech business plans originating from California to Tanzania will be showcased in a competition next month.
Yale University President Richard Levin has been named CEO of ‘MOOC’ provider Coursera, which has recently grown interested in K-12 teacher training.
The Federal Communications Commission vowed Wednesday to put forward rules to protect “net neutrality, though the commmision’s two Republican members panned the proposal.