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Online universities launching courses for teachers
Share By Sean Coughlan A major global online university network is to enter the teacher-training market for the first time. Coursera, based in the United States, has announced partnerships with schools of education to provide content for free online training ... Read More »
Stanford scholar Adam Johnson wins Pulitzer Prize in fiction
Share By Brooke Donald Associate Professor of English Adam Johnson is honored for his best-selling novel, The Orphan Master’s Son. Adam Johnson, an associate professor of English at Stanford University, has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for The ... Read More »
US universities embrace open source online learning platform
Share Stanford University has joined forces with edX — the not-for-profit online learning enterprise founded by Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to enhance the development of edX’s open source learning platform by providing free and open ... Read More »
Stanford to collaborate with edX to develop a free, open source online learning platform
Share EdX will be available as an open source learning platform on June 1. In support of that move, Stanford will integrate features of its existing Class2Go open source online learning platform into the edX platform. Stanford University will collaborate ... Read More »
Hopkins medical school falls to No. 3 in U.S. News rankings
Share Johns Hopkins University‘s medical school fell one spot to No. 3 in the nation, while its education school rose to No. 2, according to the latest U.S. News and World Report graduate school rankings. The medical school ranked behind ... Read More »
Online universities offer free classes to millions
Share The academic world took notice in 2011 when a Stanford University professor offered an online course on artificial intelligence for free, and more than 160,000 students from around the world registered for it. Stanford’s success prompted other major universities ... Read More »
Stanford scientist closes in on a mystery that impedes space exploration
Share By Simon Firth The large meteoroid that struck Russia last week is just one of the factors in space that cause satellites to fail. Sigrid Close, an assistant professor of aeronautics and astronautics, is proving that the effects of ... Read More »
University of Tokyo to begin free online courses
Share The University of Tokyo will begin offering free online courses as soon as by September, with a plan to issue certificates to people around the world recognised as having reached a sufficient level of achievement. The university will be ... Read More »
Stanford University is 1st college to raise $1B
Share Stanford University has set a new record for college fundraising, becoming the first school to collect more than $1 billion in a single year, according to a report released. For the eighth straight year, Stanford ranked first in the ... Read More »
Stanford University – One of the world’s leading research and teaching institutions
Share About Stanford Located between San Francisco and San Jose in the heart of Silicon Valley, Stanford University is recognized as one of the world’s leading research and teaching institutions. Leland and Jane Stanford founded the University to “promote the ... Read More »
