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Planet 2.0 meets the USA

10/4/2007

This has been a quiet blogging week due to FLACSO México‘s visit to the University of Minnesota. The visit has been very busy, and highly productive. This morning, Education Futures contributor Dr. Cristóbal Cobo (read his blog) presented his ideas at a University of Minnesota’s Institute for New Media Studies and Digital Technology Center research [...]


2007 State of the Future report released

9/13/2007

Jerome Glenn, director of the United Nations-affiliated Millennium Project, announced the release of the 2007 State of the Future report. According to the project’s press release, “the 2007 version adds a futurist look at the possibilities for education and improving collective intelligence by 2030.” Furthermore: This year’s addition, a study requested and supported by the [...]


Planet Web 2.0

9/10/2007

Cristóbal Cobo writes that his book, co-authored with Hugo Pardo, “Planeta Web 2.0, ¿Inteligencia colectiva o medios fast food?” (Planet Web 2.0: Collective intelligence or fast food?) is available for download under a Creative Commons license. In this volume, Cobo and Pardo reflect on whether the Web 2.0 trend is a creative phase, based on [...]


Introducing Cristobal Cobo, guest blogger

7/8/2007

Dr. Cristóbal Cobo, professor and director of communications at FLACSO-México is joining Education Futures over the next week or so as a guest blogger. He is no stranger to blogging, and is the author of e-rgonomic, which explores human-web interactions. Cristóbal studied his Ph.D. in the Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona. In addition he has been [...]


A question on linking open courseware to faculties

5/17/2007

The Online Education Database published their list of “Top 100 open courseware projects.” This list demonstrates that there is a lot of content available, encompassing in the fields of agriculture, arts, architecture, archeology, audio & video, biology, botany, chemistry, civil engineering, economics, electronic engineering, general engineering, Earth sciences, geography & geology, history, languages & linguistics, [...]


Horizon Forum on technologies and education in Latin America

1/31/2007

Join us for the next Horizon Forum meeting! Technologies and education in Latin America: Changes in the infrastructure and not in the teaching methods Monday, February 26, 12-3 p.m. Room 319, Coffman Memorial Union University of Minnesota, East Bank Campus 300 Washington Avenue, S.E. Minneapolis Cristobal Cobo, Ph.D., is a specialist in information technologies, faculty [...]


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The Memo v3.0: Building a “Leapfrog” University

Date:      04 April 2006 To:          All Participants From:     Arthur Harkins and John Moravec Subject: Building a “Leapfrog” University: Renovating Undergraduate Education (Version 3.0) Preface to Version 3.0 A New Paradigm founded on the convergence of globalization, rise of the knowledge society and accelerating change is emerging. The first country to adopt the New Paradigm, bolster it [...]


The Memo v2.0: Building a “Leapfrog” University

Date:              08 March 2006    To:                  All Participants From:             Arthur Harkins and John Moravec Subject:        Building a “Leapfrog” University (Version 2.0) Our Basic Concerns The University of Minnesota is at a crossroads in its path for success in the 21st century.  With a goal to become one of the top three public research universities in [...]


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