The Federal Communications Commission vowed Wednesday to put forward rules to protect “net neutrality, though the commmision’s two Republican members panned the proposal.
The Federal Communications Commission will lift the amount devoted to schools’ and libraries’ high-speed Internet access by $1 billion annually through the E-rate program.
The federal ‘Learning Registry’ seeks to provide K-12 educators with access to a vast library of material from nonprofits, government agencies, and commercial providers.
Our most popular stories of 2013 tackled teachers’ spending habits, growth in the global education market, and three common core-related issues.
Comcast, one of the nation’s largest Internet and cable providers, is partnering with Khan Academy to try to increase Web connectivity for impoverished students.
Sebastian Thrun, the entrepreneur credited with helping launch “massive, open, online courses,” now says the evidence shows MOOCs are not helping students in higher education.
OpenEd, an online catalog of more than 250,000 web-based educational videos, games, and exercises aligned with some 3,300 Common Core State Standards, launches today.
Coursera, a massive open online course provider, made $1 million from students who pursued “verified certificates” for their successful completion of courses.
NovoEd, a provider of massive, open, online courses, has unveiled a series of online offerings focused on entrepreneurship, which could be of use to those focused on the K-12 market.
Blackboard plans to give K-12 schools access to a platform to create “MOOCs,” while Amplify will launch its first MOOC, focused on AP Computer Science.