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How Do Credentials Change as Education Goes Online? Stanford and Khan Academy Respond.(Video)
allthingsd.com ^ | 5/31/2012 | Liz Gannes

Posted on 06/01/2012 1:05:59 PM PDT by RoosterRedux

Stanford President John Hennessy and Khan Academy founder Salman Khan are coming at online education from very different angles — one is an elite institution being shaken up by experiments, the other is a widely loved upstart that’s increasingly being used in traditional schools.

In conversation with Walt Mossberg at D10, Hennessy and Khan talked about the future of the education credential; the opportunities for “flipped classroom”-style education, where class time is spent on collaboration, tutoring and projects; the move away from lectures and toward social media; and the opportunity to provide practical education for kids in a sort of “shadow school district,” as Khan called it, with classes in computer science, statistics and law.

Here’s a highlight reel:

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: onlineeducation

1 posted on 06/01/2012 1:06:06 PM PDT by RoosterRedux
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2 posted on 06/01/2012 1:09:25 PM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: driftdiver
lol!

Yep, he's back!

3 posted on 06/01/2012 1:13:15 PM PDT by RoosterRedux (Sow the wind...reap the whirlwind!)
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Stanford has an excellent online course program EPGY: Educational Program For Gifted Youth, geared to the kind of kids (elementary thru high school) who might some day qualify for Stanford. The course offerings are from elementary-level through university level.

My oldest did some stuff with them some years ago. I recommend them.

4 posted on 06/01/2012 1:20:05 PM PDT by PapaBear3625 (If I can't be persuasive, I at least hope to be fun.)
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Im an online MBA student. There are some pretty good online school. Vanderbilt, Notre Dame, FIU, USC.. they are actually very challenging and take discipline.


5 posted on 06/01/2012 2:34:22 PM PDT by goseminoles
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