TEDxNYED: Independently organized TED event
Examining the role of new media and technology in shaping the future of education
Andy Carvin
Michael Wesch
Henry Jenkins
Lawrence Lessig
Jeff Jarvis
George Siemens
Those were some of my heroes lined up at TEDxNYED, the independent TED event held in NYC, on March 6, 2010, a beautiful if cold spring day. Now all the videos are [...]
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The more I teach… and the more I see and use technology within education… the more I get anti-teaching.
This technology business and all my active involvement with Web 2.0 and education stuff have taught me a few things, I believe. In a few words, I’m thinking and thinking these days that education done [...]
Digizen published a recent study sponsored by the US Department of Education which concludes that online learning is more effective than face to face “traditional” learning.
A systematic search of the research literature from 1996 through July 2008 identified more than a thousand empirical studies of online learning. Analysts screened these studies to find those that [...]
Here’s the Web 2.0 presentation – Redondo Beach version, I did on 19 May 2009 for the TRIO Programs HOPE Conference. I enjoyed it so much, I embedded a few great videos (which do not seem to work well in SlideShare). Nevertheless, here is first a little video of the great Santa Monica pier with [...]
UoP
The University of the People will open its virtual doors in April 2009 with just two BS Programs: Business Administration and Computer Science. They will be free (as in beer) and open to everybody on Earth with a high school diploma. All through e-Learning. Text will be open, and the software used will be open-source.
The [...]