Amazon Snaps Up Online Math Instruction Company TenMarks To Help It Make Education Apps

techcrunch.com - Amazon has announced plans to snap up online education company TenMarks . The company offers an online math curriculum currently, and Amazon VP of Kindle Dave Limp says that together, “Amazon and TenMarks intend to develop rich educational content and applications, across multiple platforms, that we think teachers, parents and students will love.”TenMarks was founded in 2008 and has raised debt funding several times over the last few years.

8 Girls Who Dream Big For International Day Of The Girl 2013

huffingtonpost.com - In honor of International Day Of The Girl this Friday, here are the faces of eight young women from around the world whose dreams for the future will inspire you.The beautiful photo series was commissioned by The Girl Effect (a movement created by the Nike Foundation) as part of their declaration for the United Nations to prioritize young women in their goals to fight global poverty. The argument?





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This week: Three points for effective use of open data

zunia.org - The open government and open data movements are all about empowering citizens, users, and movers-and-shakers by increasing their access information, data and their government. This week we have three major points about how to best take advantage of the doors that opening.Number one comes from The Guardian’s Policy Hub: involve the public in open policymaking, not just in the implementation. Many of the new open government initiatives focus around service delivery, but much less has been centered on opening the process for forming the policy in the first place.

Canada needs an online education strategy

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Australia and the U.K. have established national strategies for online education where competition is not the driving force

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Your Brain Online: A Review Of The Neuroscience MOOC from Coursera - moocnewsandreviews.com

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In Professor Idan Segev’s outstanding neuroscience MOOC , Synapses, Neurons and Brains on Coursera, students learn how electrical activity in a single nerve cell link to more sophisticated brain functions.

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25 Awesome Social Media Tools Your Brand Should Be Using [INFOGRAPHIC]

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The Social Media Strategies Summit Blog gives you all the up to date information in anything related to social media.

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10 popular MOOC instructors with brilliant Twitter accounts

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Check out how they interact with their students and wider audiences. You might get some ideas.

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Temple Grandin: What's Right with the Autistic Mind

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By focusing on deficits, we overlook the strengths of brains built differently

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Brunei’s education ministry launches centre to develop digital learning content

futuregov.asia - The Ministry of Education ( MOE ) Brunei officially launch its Media and In-Service Centre or MiSC yesterday, which is a core building block in the transformation of education through e-Hijrah.MiSC is an integral part of MOE ’s efforts in providing relevant, inspiring, and outcomes-focused education resources to students and teachers.

British universities take on American might in THE rankings

news.tes.co.uk - The latest international university rankings have been published by the Times Higher Education, TES's sister title, and British universities take up three of the top ten ranking institutions.The California Institute of Technology – setting for the popular American “geek” comedy show the Big Bang Theory, comes top of the chart. The rankings look at teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international outlook.