2010
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Association e-Learning expert Jeff Cobb on SpacedEd
We are fortunate here to work with many of the world’s leading associations and content partners. One of those is the American College of Emergency Physicians – the leading association of 27,000 Emergency Medicine doctors in the United States. We’ll be talking more about how they are using SpacedEd in a future post but their [...]
SpacedEd Provides an Online Solution to Summer Learning Loss
Today we are announcing a program focusing on reducing summer learning loss based on a project being conducted at Harvard Medical School using SpacedEd. We put out a news release today discussing the program which begins by highlighting the issues: Summer learning loss is a problem facing millions of students across the United States. Due [...]
CME: The Next Generation
Continuing Medical Education (CME) is an important area for SpacedEd. Medical education research literally led to the creation of our platform and it is still a very important segment for us and many of our partner and members. Lawrence Sherman of Prova Education recently wrote a great piece encouraging the CME community to think more [...]
Introducing SpacedEd: The Movie
The best way for someone to understand SpacedEd is to try a course but often people would like to know a little more about what they are getting into before investing the time to enroll in a course. As a partial answer to that, we are happy to share with everyone a new short video [...]
Now on Android and BlackBerry
In March we launched SpacedEd on iPhone and iPod touch and its been a huge success. We received many requests to bring the same great mobile interface to Android and BlackBerry devices and we are delighted to announce that we have done just that. Like iPhone, it has been optimized to be blazingly fast and [...]
SpacedEd Brings Free Mobile Learning to Higher Education
Burlington, MA. April 22nd, 2010 – Spaced Education, Inc., the innovator of fast, Q&A-based learning technology, announced today that SpacedEd’s mobile delivery and enterprise features are now free to higher education faculty and institutions across the United States. Professors, instructors, and graduate students who are teaching courses at accredited, US degree-granting degree institutions will be [...]
SpacedEd Brings Its Innovative Learning Technology To iPhone
Burlington, MA. March 30th, 2010 – Spaced Education, Inc., the innovator of fast, Q&A-based learning technology announced today that SpacedEd is now available on iPhone and iPod touch. SpacedEd users can access SpacedEd.com from their iPhone or iPod touch web browser or from a SpacedEd email received on their mobile device. Users are able to [...]
SpacedEd is now on LinkedIn
In addition to the discussion that happens within SpacedEd courses, we have used this blog, Twitter and Facebook to connect with our members. Recently we added a new tool with the creation of the official SpacedEd discussion group on LinkedIn. We will cross-post from our blog and Twitter feeds to the LinkedIn group and hope [...]
Democratizing Learning
Ed. Magazine, the magazine of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, is currently featuring an article on SpacedEd entitled “Repetition, Repetition, Repetition“. It covers background on how SpacedEd came to be and includes this quote on the content-neutral approach we take in allowing anyone to create a course on anything: “For that reason, SpacedEd CEO [...]
Learning by Degrees
Harvard Magazine in its most recent print issue featured an interview with B. Price Kerfoot, inventor of the “spaced education” concept that powers SpacedEd. On more traditional forms of web-based learning the author comments: “[Kerfoot] knew that Web-based teaching modules are a gold standard for online education, but in a study done at four medical [...]
