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The next big online encyclopedias…

…will be authoritative.

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Morning TED: The child-driven education

Where is Sugata Mitra going with this talk? Education is a self-organizing system in which learning is an emergent phenomenon….it will take five years and under a million dollars to prove this experimentally. There is a method available: for 1 … Continue reading

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Teaching without technology

From another interesting read via Jules Glanzer’s Twitter account: As one commenter on my last column put it: “Problem is, higher education in this country has rapidly taken on many of the qualities of business corporations, with instructors being expected … Continue reading

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