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A new organization dedicated to improving the practices of the flipped classroom has introduced a certification program intended to give teachers and administrators a foundational understanding. MoreLinkedIn acquired Lynda.com in spring 2015. LinkedIn itself will soon become part of Microsoft. That acquisition is expected to be finalized by the end of this year. MoreExcelencia in Education received $1.5 million from an educational philanthropy and a private foundation to serve a common interest – the advancement of effective and evidence-based practices for Latino college students. MoreFour digitization projects at Cornell University have won grants worth around $5,000 each from Cornell's Grants Program for Digital Collections in Arts and Sciences. MoreThe California Community Colleges system has gone public with its use of an IT virtualized lab. More
Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg and pediatrician Priscilla Chan have enlisted help from UCSF, UCB and Stanford to build a $600 million biomedical science research center in San Francisco. The facility will use $3 billion over the next decade to cure diseases. MoreA company that helps institutions and publishers monitor the reach of their scholarly output has begun tracking data from the Open Syllabus Project. MoreEBSCO Information Services has launched Stacks, a hosted content management system for libraries, and Stacks Mobile, a native app for iOS and Android devices. MoreIn addition to delivering millions of accessible e-books, Benetech released a set of resources aimed at helping publishers and other content creators understand how to make content accessible from the start. MoreOn September 20, the New York University Tandon School of Engineering formally opened its new MakerSpace. MoreDuring the first week of October, 6,500 middle school students will participate in the first Boston STEM Week. The initiative brings hands-on STEM curriculum developed by MIT and other organizations to 36 middle schools, with plans to reach 2,000 schools by the end of 2020. More
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