Cathy Mincberg recently spoke to school innovators from around the country as part of a Bill and Melinda Gates conference on “Creating a Literacy Spine by Design”. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is funding partner school districts and charter management organizations around the country to rapidly build and scale innovations that ensure that students leave high school truly ready for college or careers. To expand thinking about innovation, a panel entitled “What Will Disrupt Literacy Learning / Instruction as We Know It?” provoked attendees by illustrating how innovative ideas can disrupt education in a way that makes quantum, rather than incremental, improvements possible.

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Cathy Mincberg Speaks to Gates Foundation Panel About Online Learning as a Disruptive Innovation

One chief advantage of having a master’s degree is the potential it brings to you for increased earnings. If you want to move up the career ladder at your current job, there often is no better way than getting your advanced degree.

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Worth of An Online Masters Degree

“Camera shy” is not the first phrase that comes to my mind for Siva Vaidhyanathan.

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College 2.0: More Professors Could Share Lectures Online to Extend Learning Opportunities. But Should They? – Jeffrey R. Young, chronicle of Higher Ed

If they choose to stay in the state, thousands of unemployed Michigan factory workers will need to re-brand their careers, experts say. But how? Online, non-credit courses with the LEARN program aim to help baby boomers laid off from manufacturing industry jobs answer that question, said University of Michigan professor Lynn Wooten, who helped to develop the program’s curriculum

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New Web site offers career courses via online learning for Michigan’s out-of-work baby boomers – AnnArbor.com

District students looking for a few extra credits during the traditionally academic downtime of summer will soon be able to move a step closer to graduation without leaving their homes. Students can sign up now for several online summer school class offerings, including health, U.S. government, geometry and algebra

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High school summer school learning goes online – Tim Troglen, Hudson Hub Times

During the past week, it has appeared that public higher education might become the vehicle for carrying the weight of this budgetary shortfall, although there is now some indication that compromise might be in the air. Failure to continue down that compromise path is a dangerous road to take. Higher education is the engine that feeds economic growth.

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Weighing higher education in the budget balancing act – DOROTHY LELAND, Macon Telegraph

Public higher education is at risk: if we continue down this path of diminished state funding, the University of Illinois will become a de facto private school. The poor in Chicago will lose out on affordable and accessible higher education

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What does the crisis mean? – Gregory Royal Pratt, Chicago Flame

The Learning Power program helps South Dakota high school students who want to challenge themselves academically and get a leg up on college. Learning Power Director, Dr.

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Free online learning AP classes available for S.D. high school students – Bandon, SD Info

The draft of a new federal plan focuses on improving digital learning at the elementary- and secondary-school level, but it calls for changes in higher education as well. ” Transforming American Education: Learning Powered by Technology ,” released this month by the Department of Education, is a draft of the National Educational Technology Plan 2010. It calls for an increased role for online learning in kindergarten through 12th grade and says colleges of education must include online learning in their curricula as well.

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Colleges of Education Are Urged to Focus More on Online Learning – Jill Laster, Chronicle of Higher Ed

It noted that a 2009 study by the Department of Education found that there were significant improvements achieved by students who undertook online learning programmes, compared to those in a traditional classroom.”Well-designed online degree courses make it possible for you to receive your course materials in a variety of media and also encourage you to interact with students and professors beyond e-mail,” explained the publication.BBC News recently reported that one potential trend in the UK teaching profession is that there may be more men, with the Training and Development Agency for Schools recording a 52 per cent increase in applicants in 2009/10.

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Online learning ‘does not mean an easy ride’ – Tefl Chalkboard

Pamoja Education, based in Oxford, UK, will use the latest web technologies to develop and deliver a minimum of 27 high quality online courses by 2015 with an aim to increasing this to 70 or more courses by the year 2020. Enrollment for the initial 8 two-year courses is now open. Initial subjects on offer include economics, business and management and information technology in a global society

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Online courses from Pamoja Education use Web 2.0 technology to encourage global collaborative online learning

Cosmetology is one of the fastest growing industries in America, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, but it is also one of the industries with the lowest average pay and limited opportunity for advancement. Many creative-minded people begin the process of becoming a licensed cosmetologist, only to become discouraged by the competition, low pay or licensing process

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4 Creative Degrees to consider instead of hair school

Second Life is a virtual online world where users can log in and quite literally live a second life. The service is totally free to use, though there are options if you wish to pay money for a subscription that allows you to own more land and have more money in the world

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Above the Law: Classes get Second Life online learning – Josh Law, the East Texan

By virtually every measure, electronic learning is experiencing unprecedented growth and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. A new analysis and forecast released this month by research firm Ambient Insight bolstered previous research in this area, showing that electronic learning, by dollar volume, reached $27.1 billion in 2009 and predicting this figure will nearly double that by 2014, with academic institutions leading the way.

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The Future of Online Learning Is More Growth – David Nagel, Campus Technology

In recent years, high schools that are configured to provide students the opportunity to earn both a high-school diploma and a college associate’s degree or up two years of credit toward a bachelor’s degree have grown in popularity. The Early College High School Initiative, a private partnership made up of 13 member organizations, has started or redesigned more than 200 such schools since 2002

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Are ‘Early College’ High Schools A Good Idea?

I Think We Have a Solution Here! Forgive me for popping in again so quickly but after reading Ms. Hoffman’s post, and receiving two e-mails last night from parents who read my post, I just realized something: I think ECHS solves the “college- and career-readiness” issue more effectively than standards

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Steve Peha responded to Are ‘Early College’ High Schools A Good Idea? on March 16, 2010 11:47 AM

With fewer than 70 percent of America’s youth graduating from high school, and many graduates discovering that they can’t make it in college, any promising innovation deserves a shot. Early college high school is one of those intriguing ideas, and the evaluations give some cause for cheer

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David L. Kirp responded to Are ‘Early College’ High Schools A Good Idea? on March 15, 2010 07:25 AM

With online sites that rate college professors, students have a lot more information at their fingertips when they choose their classes. Now, a survey suggests that a possible byproduct of these teacher review sites is grade inflation as students use the information to identify the easiest professors and those most likely to award higher grades. (I question the accuracy of Internet reviews since I think disgruntled students are more likely to submit comments than happy ones)

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Online Learning: Students use online reviews to find easy graders on faculty – Maureen Downey, Atlanta Journal Constitution

I was one of the lucky ones this semester. I spent $292.50 on my school textbooks. For many years college students have bought textbooks at outrageously high prices and watched as those prices continued to soar while their bank accounts barely manage to stay afloat

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Online Learning: E-books could save students money – Ethan Walker, Univesity of Minnesota Duluth

The new adventure of online world has helped to improve many domains and sectors. Knowledge manage mentera which originally related to business sector is now required in industry, health, or any institute that needs to manage its knowledge. Education is no exception! The advancement in computers speed and memory, and the growth of Internet usage are behind the inspiration of e-learning approach

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Online Learning Management Systems: Are They Knowledge Management Tools? – B. A. AbuShawar, and J. A. Al-Sadi, iJET