Online Course Teaches Russian-Speaking Hackers Latest Carding Tricks

By Catalin Cimpanu, Bleeping Computer

Russian-speaking criminals are offering a six-week online course that teaches wannabe hackers all they need to know to enter the online fraud and carding scene. Discovered by threat intelligence firm Digital Shadows, the course is advertised on Russian underground sites and is available only in Russian. It’s like a carders’ university. The program, known as WWH, costs 45,000 Russian rubles ($760) with an additional $200 for course materials, sums that coursants can pay via Bitcoin or Webmoney.  Enrolled coursants will study under five expert instructors in live webinars. All classes are capped at 15 members, so instructors can cater to all attendees. The program also provides detailed notes and course materials in the form of PDF files.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/online-course-teaches-russian-speaking-hackers-latest-carding-tricks/

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Trailblazers in EdTech

BY MATTHEW LYNCH, tech Edvocate

The influencers that we chose are all active in the area of edtech, doing something influential in edtech, well-known throughout the edtech landscape, and making an impact globally. We are excited to witness how these influencers continue to change the world this year, and we are anxious to see who will stand on the shoulders of these giants, and as a result, become a part of this series. In this installment of “Trailblazers in Edtech,” we will profile Todd Brekhus, President of myON.

http://www.thetechedvocate.org/trailblazers-edtech-todd-brekhus/

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The Rise of Online Learning Content

by Rhucha Kulkarni, HR

Content creation and delivery is a very important part of learning and development—one that keeps learning offerings relevant to the market and the users. This area has seen significant changes with the advent of new learning media. One such trend is the rise of the online learning course. Today, a number of reputed universities such as Harvard and Yale offer online learning programs, called Massive Open Online Courses. There are also learning platforms like Udacity and Coursera that offer a range of training material, from software development to marketing strategy to communication skills. These online courses are helping bridge the geographical constraints with regard to learning and bring virtual education under one roof to anyone across the world. What’s more, many of the basic versions of these courses are free to access or can be registered for at a nominal charge. These advancements in L&D have been possible because of the marriage of technology and learning. In the light of these readily accessible and cost-effective courses, how is organizational training and development changing?

https://www.hrtechnologist.com/articles/learning-management-systems/the-rise-of-online-learning-content/

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Web-Based Learning in Rural Areas Gets Federal Financial Lift

By Dian Schaffhauser, THE Journal

A United States Department of Agriculture grant program will fund 45 projects intended to connect rural communities in 32 states with educational experts via videoconferencing. The same funding stream is also being applied to healthcare projects for connecting patients with medical professionals. On the education side, in Alaska Copper River School District, for example, will use nearly $500,000 to provide distance learning to five primary schools in extremely remote Alaskan villages. The schools will share curriculum and professional development. Three of the sites are on Native Alaskan trust lands. Across the country in West Virginia the Roane County Schools will use its $500,000 grant to place videoconferencing equipment in 19 schools.

https://thejournal.com/articles/2016/07/18/web-based-learning-in-rural-areas-gets-federal-financial-lift.aspx

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Microsoft Official Courses (MOC) Now Online and On-Demand

by Ed Tittel, Go Certify

Microsoft now offers its official courses at your convenience via MOC On-Demand. These courses match the content that Microsoft has long offered as part of its official curriculum for classroom training, itself now available in both physical and virtual forms. These training materials combine video-based instruction, text-based reading materials, hands-on labs accessed online, and ongoing “knowledge checks” (questions to answer, and problems to solve) to make sure that students are successfully learning the materials and grasping key concepts, practices, and principles. The on-demand nature of the offering means that students can proceed at their own pace (within limits: most MOC On-Demand offerings provide 90 days of access to course materials), on their own schedules, and using their own PCs or laptops wherever they want to use them.

http://www.gocertify.com/articles/microsoft-official-courses-now-online-and-on-demand

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The Possibilities for VR to Transport Students Appeal to Teachers

By Dian Schaffhauser, THE Journal

1-to-1 programming up and running? Check. Blended learning in place? Check. Then maybe it’s time to add virtual reality to the classroom too. In a recent survey more than 9 in 10 teachers (93 percent) said they believe the use of VR would “excite” their students, and 8 in 10 (83 percent) say it might improve learning outcomes. The survey was run by a market research firm on behalf of Samsung, which sells its own VR headgear. Among the findings: Although only two percent of teachers reported having tried VR in the classroom, 60 percent said they would like to add it to their learning technology arsenal. Almost 8 in 10 respondents (77 percent) said they believe that VR could help students gain a better understanding of learning concepts, as well as increase collaboration (71 percent) and help motivate students in the classroom (84 percent).

https://thejournal.com/articles/2016/06/28/the-possibilities-for-vr-to-transport-students-appeal-to-teachers.aspx

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Summer Learning Apps

by WBNS

You can find some great resources online to make sure your kids keep learning year round. Many of them are free. Social media behavioral expert Michele Cuthbert with Baker Creative recommends these apps and websites that are not only educational, but fun: Timeforkids.com has a variety of tools to learn, for example, about Antarctica. It also has fast facts, printable items for various grades, a slide show of explorers and info about animals. WBU.com (wild birds unlimited.com): offers live video feeds of all types of birds in their natural habitat. It also teaches kids how to set up their own wildlife habitat. Thekidzpage.com has online color pages, math and number games, picture games and paint puzzles for younger kids.

http://www.10tv.com/content/stories/2015/07/19/columbus-summer-learning-apps.html

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Online learning gets push

By Aziza Musa, Arkansas Daily

Colleges and universities statewide are rebuilding or reinvigorating online offerings in preparation for the fall term. The revisiting of online programs is helping the higher-education institutions to compete in an already crowded field for nontraditional students — students who don’t come directly from high school or who started college but then stopped before graduating. The Arkansas Department of Higher Education has allowed more than 120 distance education providers — both in-state and out-of-state institutions that have online offerings — to operate in the state, officials have said. “There has been a renewed emphasis on improving the college attainment rate, whether certificates or degrees, of adult Arkansans, and online education is an important component of that effort,” said Brett Powell, director of the state’s Department of Higher Education.

http://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2015/jul/20/online-learning-gets-push-20150720/

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School saves 150 failing students with quickie online courses

By Susan Edelman, New York Post

Flushing HS put 150 flunking students in quickie online “credit recovery” courses and pressured teachers to reverse failing grades to boost a lower-than-50 percent graduation rate, a stunning internal ­e-mail shows. “Our benchmark of a 60 percent graduation rate in June is nonnegotiable,” ­Patricia Cuti, assistant principal for guidance, insisted in a June 1 missive to staff. With fewer than two weeks before the end of regular classes, all 150 students were enrolled in Apex Learning online courses, where they could get a quick and easy replacement for a semester or year’s work. “With 150 students failing a grad requirement, we are looking at a rate of less than 50 percent,” Cuti wrote. “Every effort to assist these students in reaching all the graduation requirements is necessary.

http://nypost.com/2015/07/19/school-saves-150-failing-students-with-quickie-online-courses/

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How (And Why) Visual Design Matters In e-Learning

By Katie Lepi, Edudemic

The use of visual, engaging content is a regular topic around these parts, isn’t it. Getting your students interested and keeping them engaged is a challenge for every teacher in every subject and at every age level. That said, when you’re putting together your class materials, do you give a ton of thought to how things look? The answer is probably yes – with an overwhelming answer being that obviously, content matters more. That said, the handy infographic linked below proposes using the laws of visual perception -aka the Gestalt principles – in e-learning design.

http://www.edudemic.com/visual-design-matters-in-e-learning/

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12 STEM resources for all grades

By Laura Devaney, eSchool News

These sites are intended to help students strengthen much-needed STEM skills. In classrooms across the nation, STEM education is hailed as one of the most important concepts for today’s students. After all, STEM know-how, coupled with skills such as problem solving and strong communication, will help students compete with peers on a global level. We’ve compiled a list of STEM websites for elementary, middle, and high school students. Each grade range features one science, one technology, one engineering, and one mathematics resource.

http://www.eschoolnews.com/2014/07/17/12-stem-resources-326/

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3 Ways EdTech Is Moving Beyond the Classroom

By Joel Sackett, Edudemic

New tools are meant to help improve educators’ teaching abilities, help enhance the actual learning process and also help students become more tech-savvy. But while such tools are important to the overall education ecosystem, technology can also make an impact long before and after a lesson takes place. As such, technology should have a leading role in the part of the education process that takes place behind the scenes – parts of the process that are often overlooked, but that can also improve student achievement and learning outcomes. Let’s take a quick look are three such areas: human resources, professional development and improved IT infrastructure.

http://www.edudemic.com/edtech-classroom/

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