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Open Culture brings together high-quality cultural & edu... the worldwide lifelong learning community. Web 2.0 has g... amounts of intelligent audio and video. It’s all free.... enriching. But it’s also scattered across the web, and... Our whole m

I interviewed a lot of people recently, and ...
This was a "proper" programming job with a back-end data ...
We asked some *basic* questions about databases (stuff l ...
Most of the graduates didn't have a clue - this is basic ...
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Modern classrooms aren’t working for kids, according t... Remu, the director of Partners in Learning at Microsoft ... schools are like jails--brick walls, colorless, not very... exciting,” she tells the Georgia Straight, days before...
This grim d

You will find many resources promoting learning styles a... element of teaching and learning. For example, they are ... (standard 4) and by ISTE (NETS-T). Review the resources ... set of slides. You can find more. Do not accept learning... because it

Stanford’s first interdisciplinary computer science an... has left both students and teachers hungry for more.

Daphne Koller is enticing top universities to put their ... courses online for free -- not just as a service, but as... how people learn. Each keystroke, comprehension quiz, pe... discussion and self-graded assignment builds an unpreced... on how know

Paul Buckland refused to pass students who didn't unders... archaeology - and he's just one of many academics under ... the marks of undeserving students. So will Buckland's le... the destruction of standards in some universities, asks ...

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... w up, with a little common sense and a lot of curiosity.

Online courses are experiencing sky-high dropout rates, ... a good thing.

But because MOOCs are so new, and so limited before yest... first-hand discussion of what it's like to teach one has... current MOOC moment began less than a year ago, when Sta... free, chunked artificial intelligence course online, and... signed up.

But while anecdotal accounts multiply, mental health iss... little-researched and hard data is thin on the ground.
However, a study published in 2013 by the University and ...

I've seen PhD students with depression, sleep issues, ea... thoughts of suicide. Mental health in academia is an iss... addressed

So this article is my attempt to summarise what I have d... use of humour in teaching. There is rather more written ... students, so I have unashamedly drawn upon the sociology... literature. However, there are similarities between soci... psychology

A TimeMap is an interactive graphic showing change over ... is linked to descriptions of the change being shown.
The TimeMap of World History covers human history at dif ...
We also have a growing range of Topic TimeMaps which tak ...

In higher education, it's not how much time you spend wi... what you do with it that should count
What is a contact hour? How does a lecture with 70 other ...

The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 201... Thomson Reuters are the only global university performan... world class universities across all of their core missio... research, knowledge transfer and international outlook. ... universitie

Anti-parabola propoganda, plus musing on math class, car... dots, envelopes of lines, even a bit of origami.

Anti-parabola propoganda, plus musing on math class, car... dots, envelopes of lines, even a bit of origami.

Most researchers and many engineers teach. Some take teaching as a chore; some actually like teaching; and some researchers like teaching so much as to do research about teaching, ... What I do want to talk about is an article which influe...

My mom’s never written a line of software in her life,... how to program. She taught me arithmetic and fractions t... structures through laundry, and programming and algorith... Does that sound crazy? Let me explain.

Stanford has decided to move away from Java in their int... Surprisingly, they have decided to move to JavaScript. ®.. that most top CS departments are moving to Python.  The... article linked below doesn’t address any other languag...
The SIGCSE-

Khan Academy has created a generic framework for buildin... framework, together with the exercises themselves, can b...
The framework exists in two components:
An HTML markup for specifying exercises.
A jQuery plugin for generating a usable, int