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Twitter launches Twitter University to build better employees, buys company to help 24 Aug 2013 | 12:09 am
Kris Kesiak Photography August 13, 2013 12:17 PM John Koetsier Add a Comment inShare22 Twitter announced a new internal learning initiative today, Twitter University, to give its employees better skil...
In Digital Transition, Electronic Media Soars as Textbooks Lose Footing in PreK-12 Market, According to Latest Report by Simba Information 19 Aug 2013 | 12:01 am
The PreK-12 publishing market is in the midst of a transition as schools invest more in a digital future and instructional software providers embrace new opportunities with the rising appeal in digita...
Amazon restricts students from bringing certain textbook rentals… 17 Aug 2013 | 12:07 am
August 16, 2013 By Lauren Ingeno Students who rent textbooks through Amazon.com’s Warehouse Deals, Inc. may be unknowingly agreeing to an unusual condition: They are not permitted to cross state borde...
Bezos’ Purchase of the Post Leaves Graham With Kaplan For-Profit College 7 Aug 2013 | 01:42 am
Posted: 08/06/2013 2:06 pm Among the many questions raised by Jeff Bezos’s purchase of the Washington Post newspaper is: What will become of the rest of the old Washington Post Company, publicly trade...
What Are the Risks in Using Data to Predict Student Outcome? 7 Aug 2013 | 12:10 am
Annie Murphy Paul | August 6, 2013 | Thinkstock “Is it good to tell a first-grader, ‘You might be a dropout?’” The obvious answer would seem to be: Uh, no. But when Thomas C. West posed this questio...
Setting Limits for Outsourcing Online – Accreditor shuts down Ivy Bridge College 6 Aug 2013 | 10:50 pm
August 5, 2013 By Paul Fain The shuttering of Ivy Bridge College could dump cold water on the online aspirations of some colleges, particularly ones that prefer to play it safe with their regional acc...
Why Jeff Bezos Is Buying The Washington Post 6 Aug 2013 | 07:14 pm
My Twitterstream is abuzz over the boffo Washington Post deal in which Amazon founder/CEO/visionary Jeff Bezos grabbed the venerable newspaper for $250 million, or $180 million more than Red Sox owner...
Amazon’s Jeff Bezos buys The Washington Post for $250 million 6 Aug 2013 | 07:06 pm
By Greg Sandoval on August 5, 2013 04:34 pm Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon and the world’s 19th-richest man, has acquired The Washington Post, long one of the country’s most influential and prestig...
How 12 Countries Spend Education Money (And If It Makes A Difference) 30 Jul 2013 | 09:07 pm
Added by Katie Lepi on 2013-07-25 Locally speaking, what our communities spend on education is a pretty everyday topic, especially if you either have kids in school or are a teacher, changes are that ...
Truths about MOOCs, Rees v Chait, and a bunch of other MOOC article links 29 Jul 2013 | 10:22 pm
Steve Krause, stevendkrause.com, July 29, 2013 In a longish and comprehensive piece covering most of the recent (ie., last week's) coverage of MOOCs Steve Krause tries to set the record with 'two tru...
