How creativity is being strangled by the law
TED | Talks | Larry Lessig: How creativity is being strangled by the law (video) From an educational point of view. I wound up having to download it but it was worth it.
View ArticleVideo: How to Speak
Video: How to Speak In this skillful lecture, Professor Patrick Winston of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology offers tips on how to give an effective talk, cleverly illustrating his suggestions...
View ArticleHow Children Fail: angry lessons from failures to teach
How Children Fail: angry lessons from failures to teach – Boing Boing …The valiant and resolute band of travelers I thought I was leading toward a much-hoped-for destination turned out instead to be...
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Faulty Towers: The Crisis in Higher Education | The Nation
Most professors I know are willing to talk with students about pursuing a PhD, but their advice comes down to three words: don’t do it. At Yale, we were overjoyed if half our graduating students found...
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Disrupting Class: Honoring Multiple Intelligences through a Student-Centric...
He says we need to move to more student-centric learning, using the strengths of technology to help students learn in their own ways (you remember Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences?). For instance,...
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How database searches solved a 50-year-old medical mystery
Whats really interesting is how the Mootha Lab did it. Sure, there was plenty of traditional wet lab work involving pipettes, beakers, and chemical reagents – but techniques like these had failed to...
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In Victory for Open-Education Movement, Blackboard Embraces Sharing
Professors who use Blackboard’s software have long been forced to lock their course materials in an area effectively marked, “For Registered Students Only,” while using the system. Today the company...
View ArticleGoogle Course Builder, why it’s cool and why it’ll fail
I was very excited when I saw the announcement for Google’s new Course Builder platform. Education is such a big part of libraries but they’re all on their own, constantly reinventing the wheel from...
View ArticleUniversity Websites: Top 10 Design Guidelines
In preparing a new full-day course on designing university websites, we conducted a range of user studies. In total, we tested 57 higher-education sites with users in the United States, Canada, UK,...
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art Digital Library
The Metropolitan Museum of Art (www.metmuseum.org) Bequest of Miss Louise Veltin, 1937 Nocturne John La Farge The Metropolitan Museum of Art has created a collection of digital reproductions of...
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