This short set of slides provides a great background on what is “invisible learning” and how we can all contribute to the discussion at www.invisiblelearning.com.

Again, the conversation continues at www.invisiblelearning.com!

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Keeping with Education Futures’ annual tradition, I released five predictions for global education in 2009 early last year.
How did I do?
Much better than my predictions for 2008! Let’s look:

No Child Left Behind won’t get left behind. Contrary to all the data that shows that NCLB is a miserable failure, it still [...]

Throughout 2009, Education Futures experienced a 17.11% increase in readers, hailing from 183 countries around the world. Thank you!
The Society 3.0 series proved to be very popular, accounting for the majority of visits. Here are the top five articles of 2009, listed in descending order of page views:
5. Singularity University: February 2, 2009
4. [...]

Cristóbal Cobo and I are pleased to announce the Invisible Learning (Aprendizaje Invisible) project –and we invite your participation!
Invisible Learning // Aprendizaje Invisible is collaborative book (in English and Spanish) and an online repository of bold ideas for designing cultures of sustainable innovation.

Through the development of 1) a collaborative, printed book; 2) an e-book; and [...]

The month of November promises to be a remarkable series of boundless conversations on the intersections of creativity, technology and innovation in education.

First and foremost, I owe many thanks to Fons van der Berg for organizing Education Futures NL at the Creative Learning Lab in Amsterdam, November 2. The event will feature talks by me [...]

Inside Higher Ed writes that, Daniel Greenstein, vice provost for academic planning and programs at the University of California System predicts:
The university library of the future will be sparsely staffed, highly decentralized, and have a physical plant consisting of little more than special collections and study areas.

Particularly over the past decade, librarians have shown considerable [...]

This video has been floating around for seven months, and I somehow haven’t seen it until today. Not only does Arizona State University specifically address the growing needs for transdisciplinarity, design, relevancy, and innovation in higher education, but they seem to have a grasp on what it all means. In designing the “New American [...]

We continue our reflection on this summer’s news with a brief note on two items that look into how technology impacts student and teachers’ thinking.

Education Innovation compiled some thoughts on lateral thinking vs. vertical thinking: Successful Student Thinking In The Digital Age will be “lateral” and “miscellaneous.”
Cristóbal Cobo shared a Mark Gibson piece on digital [...]

We return from our reduced summer publication schedule — this week, we will focus on some highlights of what others talked about while we were away. Today, we start with a look at higher education:
First: Writing for the New York Times, Jacques Steinberg ponders on whether the standard length for undergraduate programs should be [...]

A short video with a compelling argument from TED:
Someone always asks the math teacher, “Am I going to use calculus in real life?” And for most of us, says Arthur Benjamin, the answer is no. He offers a bold proposal on how to make math education relevant in the digital age.