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Sunday, March 6, 2016

Momenta Learning No. 33 News on Elearning and Online Learning

Welcome to the No. 33 Issue of Momenta Learning News on Elearning and Online Learning.

Educational Technology Companies Providing Online Teaching Tools Market Intelligence 2016 - Research and Markets

DUBLIN--()-- Research and Markets ( http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/64brxh/educational) has announced the addition of the"Educational Technology Companies Providing Online Teaching Tools - Market Intelligence" report to their offering. The report discusses strategies of major educational technology companies across the globe, and present them in form of key trends.

UCLA may offset increasing enrollment with added online classes

Increases in student enrollment is one of the factors that contributed to a 35-class increase in online courses offered over the past three years, said an undergraduate student government council member.

6 Free Online Classes for Digital-Marketing Beginners

Join us in a city near you at Entrepreneur's Accelerate Your Business event series kicking off Feb 23. View cities and dates " A business needs to have a strong online presence these days if its leaders want to be competitive -- there is no way around that rule.

Students taking college courses online or in person performing about the same, pilot shows

Pennsylvania stands alone in treating college students who take more than half of their courses online differently from ones who sit in classrooms when it comes to eligibility for its need-based state grant program. But with students' growing participation in online courses that could change.

Firm boosts e-learning with special software

Nigerian students who have been finding it difficult to adjust to digital technology now have opportunity of doing so following plans by EI Consulting Ltd to offer e-learning services almost free to universities, colleges and other educational institutions to meet their learning and training requirements.

The Current Landscape of Online Learning in Higher Education

As online learning rapidly expands its reach, there is a growing investment in research on the different models of online learning, along with their success rates. Research conducted by ExtensionEngine deduces 4 online learning revenue models that are most used by colleges and universities across the U.S.

Focus on education, not integration

Last week, on the New York Times opinion page, two writers from The Century Foundation wrote an essay titled "The Secret to School Integration." According to Halley Potter and Kimberly Quick, "By most measures, America's public schools are now more racially and socioeconomically segregated than they have been for decades."

Top 9 Tools For A Free Online Education

For lifelong learners and self-made scholars, the internet is a priceless resource. Continue your education with these top free online tools. Illustration by Fruzsina Kuhári. Please enable JavaScript to watch this video. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) have greatly expanded the educational opportunities for everyone with a computer and an internet connection.

White House Officially Launches Open eBooks App to Support More Free, Online Resources

As part of the White House's Open eBooks Initiative, Michelle Obama and the White House announced the official launch of the Open eBooks App, which reportedly has $250 million worth of books in its library. The impressive collection of mostly copyrighted materials is thanks to a series of partnerships with major publishers and public libraries.

Pockets of innovation must be stitched together

One of the FE sector's most curious paradoxes is that the fewer colleges there are, the more organisations seem to spring up to represent them. But aside from the stalwarts that are the Association of Colleges and the Sixth Form Colleges' Association, who are the big players?

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