Julie Young has announced her retirement as president and CEO of Florida Virtual School.
With technology advancing at an increasingly rapid pace, keeping up with what's new and hot on the educational side is no easy task. To help IT directors, administrators and teachers stay up-to-date with the changes, THE Journal talked to users in the field about what's happening now and what's coming down the pike during the year ahead.
- By Bridget McCrea
- 02/06/14
In New Hampshire, the shift away from an educational system based on "seat time" is well underway. Here's what educators there have learned.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 02/05/14
Online course provider Udemy has reached the 2 million-student milestone, only five months after it reached the 1 million-student mark.
100Kin10, a national network that aims to train 100,000 science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) teachers over 10 years, has added a new partner to its growing program: Western Governors University.
Stanford PERTS is accepting research proposals for a new project, Mindset Challenge, which endeavors to discover ways to increase academic motivation and performance in large online learning environments.
Education could well see major changes to how it's able to deliver learning content to students with this week's ruling by a federal court on the Open Internet (Net Neutrality) Order.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 01/16/14
Districts in south central Pennsylvania are now able to offer online speech therapy session to their students with special needs.
A new high school will be opening in Greenville County Schools in August 2014 with a focus on project-based learning.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 01/14/14
A technology startup offering free software designed to allow people to do collaborative authoring has released a new version of its online program.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 01/13/14