Online Learning Update

July 17, 2010

New Grant Program Seeks to Expand Free Online Learning Courses

Filed under: Online Learning News — Ray Schroeder @ 12:04 am

By Kelly Truong, Chronicle of Higher Ed

A new program will give grants to a variety of high-tech teaching projects, with the hope of helping low-income students better succeed in their studies. Next Gen Learning Challenges, led by Educause, a nonprofit that supports education technology, is designed to find technology-based approaches to improve college readiness and completion among low-income students. Initial goals include expanding access to free educational materials online, exploring the use of social networks for teaching, combining online and face-to-face education, and finding ways to measure learning success.

http://chronicle.com/blogPost/New-Grant-Program-Seeks-to/25108/

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