A fantastic draft document by educators brought together by the Audacity’s Sebastian Thrun, proposes “inalienable rights” for students to demand from institutions and companies offering #onlinelearning courses. Really well done! DOWNLOAD THE DOCUMENT (PDF) A Bill of Rights and Principles for Learning in the Digital Age Preamble Work on this Bill of Rights & Principles…
Category: Educational Change
Educating Girls Is Smart For All Of Us (Infographic)
Educating Girls Is Smart For All Of Us Interesting Infographic supporting a gender difference when a girl receives an education: She has the opportunity to break the cycle of poverty in one generation. She will reinvest 90% of her income into her family. A country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) will increase I think the opportunity…
Harvard and MIT Join To Make EDx – Educate the World (VIDEO)
How to Educate a Billion People Around the World? The Future of Online Education is Now EdX is a not-for-profit joint venture between Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to offer online versions of their classes and those of other universities. At the same time, edX will support Harvard and MIT faculty in…
Are The Solutions, To The Problems In Education Worse? (VIDEO)
It’s NOT the Problems of Education You Need To Worry About, IT’S THE SOLUTIONS That Are MOST Concerning George Siemens delivers a powerful message in this TED talk. His introduction is a segway from a prior presentation that he comments on. He says: The Problem of Education does not concern me, quite as much as…
How College Students Use SmartPhones [INFOGRAPHIC]
There can be no denying teenage reliance on their portable devices andĀ Online Degrees.org provides a nice infographic on how college students are using their smartphones. The dominant activity appears to be communication, although no data is presented on social media use. If “idle time” is dominanted by smartphone use, is it still idle time? I’ve…
The Future of Higher Education [INFOGRAPHIC]
The rapid changes in Higher Education–in only the last year, has been staggering. While Online Learning has been going on for the last twenty years, the rise of Udacity, MITx, and Coursera have legitimized eLearning for the masses and there doesn’t appear to be a slow down in sight. The Best Colleges.org provides a great…