Online options for educators are in demand these days, and Education Dive readers flocked to the virtual field trip providers and details about Learnist's new iPhone and iPad apps that we posted about this week.
If you need to catch up on what has been going on in education over the last seven days, look no further than the links to our five most popular news reads below:
- 10 virtual field trip options for schools—Education Dive looks at ten ways school groups can travel far from the comfort of a computer lab.
- Learnist launches iPad and iPhone apps—Grockit's Pinterest-style approach to online learning introduces free apps to the iTunes App Store.
- Some schools begin adopting 'bring your own technology' plans—The days of confiscated gadgets in public schools may soon be over.
- GOP platform offers harsh criticism of higher education—A document approved at the Republican National Convention laying out the GOP's 2012 education platform has strong words for higher education.
- Coursera and Amara announce crowd-sourced captioning partnership—With Coursera's million-plus registered users and reach across 190 different countries, the partnership could take crowd-sourced captioning to the next level.
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