:: Is College Moving Online? ::

Gregory Nagy, a professor of classical Greek literature at Harvard, is a gentle academic of the sort who, asked about the future, will begin speaking of Homer and the battles of the distant past. At seventy, he has owlish eyes, a flared Hungarian nose, and a tendency to gesture broadly with the flat palms of [...]

:: On the exponential curve > Inside Singularity University ::

Its not an accredited university, and it doesnt actually teach the singuarity, the supposed superintelligence that will result when man merges with machine, due according to prolific inventor and author Ray Kurzweil sometime around 2045. Still, the official welcome at Singularity Universitys SU opening executive-programme class this fresh December afternoon in Nasas Ames research campus, [...]

8 Career Mistakes That 20-Somethings Make

  I ran across this article that was found by one of my friends. Biggest career mistakes that 20-somethings make. Now I am not in my 20′s anymore, but some of these mistakes could be applied to any age range depending where you are in your career. My favorite mistake is : You compare yourself [...]

:: Emotional Intelligence Matters More Than IQ ::

So says Dr Daniel Goleman. More of that later. Intelligence has been the subject of hot debates. Each time some psychologist tried to settle the debate by designing a defining test that showed how to check for intelligence, there would be another wave of research that showed how flawed the test was. What is then [...]

A Study of Future Trends and Predictions by Futurist Thomas Frey The Half-Life of a College Education

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Today, knowledge is growing exponentially. In many fields, the useful life of knowledge is now measured in months rather than years. According to Cathy Gonzalez, in her 2004 paper on “The Role of Blended Learning in the World of Technology: “One of the most persuasive factors is the shrinking half-life of knowledge. The “half-life of [...]

Eco Kids Art, Spramani Elaun

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Spramani Elaun with her two children launched: Nature of Art For Kids®, LLC Earth-Friendly Art Supplies & Art Classes, Colour Blocks™ Handcrafted recycled square block crayon business, Visual Art Instruction Method For Young Children, U.S. made Non Toxic Water-Based Primary Acrylic Paints™ & Eco Kid Zone™ Hosting Live Art Venues. via Eco Kids Art, Spramani Elaun. Related articles Winter [...]

Grockit Lands $20M From Discovery, Benchmark & Others To Bring Its New “Pinterest For Education” To The Masses

Social learning company Grockit announced today that it has raised a new round of strategic investment from Discovery Communications, the media giant best known for its television properties, like the Discovery Channel, TLC, and Animal Planet, among others. The investment also includes participation from Summit Group (investors in Uber and Scribd) as well as previous [...]

Why I Hate School But Love Education||Spoken Word – YouTube

Does success in the school system correlate to success in life? Or is the school system simply geared towards fact retention and regurgitation?What is true education? via Why I Hate School But Love Education||Spoken Word – YouTube.

Scientists say deep learning is the future of Silicon Valley tech | VentureBeat

It may sound like something out of a dystopian novel, but scientists are confident about a machine learning technology that can recognize and replicate human activities like seeing and thinking. via Scientists say deep learning is the future of Silicon Valley tech | VentureBeat.

27 Ways to Learn to Program Online

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I saw this article from The Next Web about 27 ways to learn to program online. It’s a great article with resources that you can learn to program for free. This has been going along thoughts that I have had for a while regarding education. If you want to learn something bad enough the knowledge [...]

:: 25 Awesome Virtual Learning Experiences Online – Virtual Education Websites ::

25 websites featuring awesome virtual learning experiences.   Just because you’re online doesn’t mean that you can’t experience the world first-hand — or as close to first-hand as possible. Here are websites that feature virtual learning experiences, exposing online visitors to everything from history to geography, astronomy to anatomy, literature to government. See on www.aceonlineschools.com

:: Social Content Curation > An Introductory Guide for Teachers and Students ::

Robin Good: “7 Things You Should Know About Social Content Curation” is a technology brief from Educause which aims to introduce, explain and illustrate the emerging social curation trend and why it is relevant to teaching and learning.   From the official abstract: “An emerging class of online tools, including Pinterest, Scoop.it, EduClipper, and others, [...]