Wisconsin’s public university system will start granting some degrees based on testing instead of credits, and letting you use as much of the school as you want for a flat fee. Schools around the country are watching.
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Adventures in Online Learning [Infographic] | nonprofitcollegesonline.com
Top 10 Countries With the Most Digital Natives | Mashable
Statista created the following chart, which lists the 10 countries that boast the most digital natives. Check it out, below, for the full results.
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Five Best Language Learning Tools | LifeHacker
Learning a new language is difficult, which is why there’s a huge market for tools and apps to help you do it. Some of them are really helpful and help you get up to speed quickly, others are a money sink. This week we’re looking at five of the best, based on your nominations.
Discussed:
- Anki
- Memrise
- Duolingo
- Pimsleur Method
- Livemocha
New iOS/Android App from Layar and Pearson Offers Augmented Reality for Print Books | LJ INFOdocket
If We Want More Ada Lovelaces, We Need to Empower Women | Mashable
This week we celebrate Ada Lovelace, a woman from the 1800s who invented computer programming at a time when no one knew what a computer was.
While her contributions are vast, I can’t help but imagine how much she may have impacted society had she been properly educated. And then I begin to think about how important it is to recognize the movements and groups that educate and offer opportunities to women.
Read the full story: If We Want More Ada Lovelaces, We Need to Empower Women | Mashable.
Related: Wiki editing session at Brown University recognizes women in science | Brown University
How to Promote Your Webinar | Duct Tape Marketing
When it comes to content marketing, nothing is better than a good webinar. You can educate, inform, engage and convert your target market – all at once. Independent reports from inbound marketing experts indicate that webinars can significantly boost your expert status, build meaningful and engaging relationships with your customers, and turn your audience into high converting prospects.
But creating webinars is just one part of the equation. Promoting them is equally important too to maximize so here is a comprehensive 10-step roadmap for you to effectively promote your webinars.
How a Radical New Teaching Method Could Unleash a Generation of Geniuses | Wired.com
Snip: That’s why a new breed of educators, inspired by everything from the Internet to evolutionary psychology, neuroscience, and AI, are inventing radical new ways for children to learn, grow, and thrive. To them, knowledge isn’t a commodity that’s delivered from teacher to student but something that emerges from the students’ own curiosity-fueled exploration. Teachers provide prompts, not answers, and then they step aside so students can teach themselves and one another. They are creating ways for children to discover their passion—and uncovering a generation of geniuses in the process.
Gates, Zuck, Dorsey chip in to teach 10M students coding | CNET News
While computer programming and coding are becoming more common K-12 class options, these subject matters are still a mystery to many students. A nonprofit called Code.org is trying to change that by enlisting a star-studded entourage of techies to help with its new “Hour of Code” campaign.
The goal of Hour of Code is to introduce computer programming to 10 million K-12 students in the US during Computer Science Education Week. The event happens December 9 to 15[, 2013].
Joining the cause are several individuals, such as long-time philanthropist Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, and LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman. Companies are also supporting the initiative, including Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Apple, Yahoo, and others.
via Gates, Zuck, Dorsey chip in to teach 10M students coding | Internet & Media | CNET News
Also See: Gates, Zuckerberg Back Code.org’s Mission To Bring Computer Science To Every School | FastCompany
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