This short video is about cognitive ideas embedding or activating in the learner’s mind to focus and elaborate the valuable factors of self being and motivation of expanding learning skills, education, talent, and passion to build career, which as a whole matters to self and social and financial success.
A Bill of Rights and Principles for Learning in the Digital Age
January 24, 2013EdSurge discusses a Bill of Rights and Principles, newly developed by a group of people passionate about learning, serving today’s students, and using every available tool to respond better to the needs of students in a global, interactive, digitally connected world....
Digital Content: What Does the Future Hold for Education Systems?
January 23, 2013GETideas.org hosted this GooglePlus hangout on the future of digital content. The online discussion featured a panel of education experts, including Nicole Allen, affordable-textbooks advocate, Student PIRGS; Una Daly, communication college outreach director, OpenCourseWare Consortium; and Cable Green, director of global...
Explaining Inequalities in School Achievement: A Realist Analysis
January 22, 2013In Explaining Inequalities in School Achievement, author Roy Nash argues that a realist framework for the sociological explanation of educational group differences can, and must be, constructed. A move to such an explanatory framework will allow society to take into account the...
Education 3.0: Seven Steps to Better Schools
January 14, 2013In Education 3.0: Seven Steps to Better Schools, renowned educator and technology expert Jim Lengel provides a refreshing and hopeful picture of what schools should look like, including a groundbreaking seven-step process for envisioning and building them that draws on the...
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November 8, 2012The World Bank EduTech blog provides advice on tracking open educational resources (OER) around the globe, advising readers on good starting points, such as UNESCO and Creative Commons, as well as additional resource links, including the Commonwealth of Learning and the Hewlett Foundation.
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November 6, 2012In this Business Report on Digital Education, MIT Technology Review examines the impact of free online education on teachers, schools, and the trillion-dollar business of education. The Review gives particular attention to the MOOCs offered by prominent new education ventures–such as edX, Coursera, and Udacity–and the technology behind them.
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November 2, 2012In this TEDxYouth@BFS video, world-renowned author and entrepreneur Seth Godin presents his talk “Stop Stealing Dreams,” a discussion on the purpose of education and what we can do it ensure its future success. The talk is based on his free e-book, which has seen millions of downloads since its launch in January.
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October 31, 2012Designing for Learning in an Open World by Gráinne Conole provides specific information and research for acquiring the requisite skills to both design and support learning opportunities that harness the potential of available technologies. Further, the book proposes new, innovative learning pathways, created to empower learners to blend formal educational offerings with free resources and services. The new approach and new pathways suggested by the author force readers to rethink the entire instructional design process, enabling both teachers and learners to take…
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October 30, 2012The U.S. Library of Congress offers classroom materials and professional development to help teachers effectively use primary sources from the Library’s vast digital collections. Users will find Library of Congress lesson plans and more that meet Common Core standards, state content standards, and the standards of national organizations.
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October 25, 2012Open Educational Resources (OER) have traditionally been defined as digital materials that may be used for teaching, learning, and research and made available free through open licenses. More recently, there has been a movement to broaden this definition. Many experts now believe that a more precise definition of OER impinges on the range of views regarding fundamental questions associated with interpretations of the meaning of “freedom to learn.” Perspectives on OER edited…
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October 23, 2012Education innovator David Ernst plugs education into the future as he seeks to bring open-licensed textbooks into the classroom. This video was recorded at TEDxKyoto 2012.
