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Good morning and happy Monday! Today we are going to travel around the world – in way less than 80 days. Come with us in our hot-air balloon, bring your coffee too! Take a short a break from your Monday Morning routine and explore the world of ed. tech.

We begin in the U.K., England to be exact.

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Keep an eye out for our upcoming K-12 Statistics and ELA-10 courses, which make use  of video from The Faculties.

Want to make your parents (children, friends) proud and catch up on some extra learning this summer? Excited about starting college but unsure of what to choose as your major? Curious about employment opportunities and job searching ideas for a specific major?

Explore some free videos and podcasts from the Faculties! (But, video or no, you might want to forget the popcorn…butter all over the computer, you know?)

This resource is jam-packed with high school and university-level videos under 6 subjects:

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You’ve probably seen this already, and we haven’t exactly gone to great lengths to hide it, but today it’s official:

Our first batch of K-12 courses, aligned to Common Core State Standards and built to be as open as possible, have been released.

None of us is happier than Angelyn Pinter, who’s been working non-stop on this since the middle of last year. We’ll be sharing more thoughts on the program this week and next, but here’s the quick version:

• Ideal for teachers, parents, students, homeschools
• Vetted, organized, well-structured content
• 3 Math, 1 ELA, 1 Common Core primer live now
• Full set of 6-12 + AP-style ELA and Math coming soon
• K-5 and additional subjects in the future

Let us know if how you plan to use these, what you’d like to see, and share with your parent/teacher/homeschool friends!

Interested in  starting a business? Got an idea that might just yield a profit? Or maybe you’re looking to expand your current entrepreneurial endeavors? Then let’s get to work, and rejoice! BUS 305: Small Business Management is now available on iTunes and it’s our course o’ the week!

Learn how to best analyze and evaluate these ideas and write business plans as you watch video lectures, read one of the 3 e-texts,  and engage in other relevant activities.

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Today, we’re releasing BUS305: Small Business Management on our iTunes U channel. And that got us thinking: variations on the word “entrepreneur” show up 137 times.

But entrepreneurship doesn’t come easy, and it doesn’t come cheap.

Back in April, our trustee, Michael Saylor, shared some of his thoughts on getting started in business:

Compare that to this quote from a recent blog post at The New York Times:

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