This past week… A shockwave passed through the singularity community today with the public launch of Singularity University at the NASA Ames campus in Silicon Valley. Singularity University aims to assemble a world class community of thought leaders, academics, and entreprenuers across the many fields of exponentially advancing technologies (nanotechnology, genetics, medicine, artificial intelligence, etc.) [...]
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Geeks and entrepreneurs of Minnesota, unite!
5/5/2008
Graeme Thickins reminds us that the Minnebar barcamp is coming up on Saturday, May 10! As noted a couple months ago, barcamps are open access, user-generated conferences. Aside from all the great discussion and networking to be had, MinneBar includes free breakfast, lunch, afternoon appetizers, evening drinks, and a commemorative t-shirt. The list of sessions [...]
De la Educación 1.0 a la Educación 3.0
4/11/2008
Fernando S. posted a Spanish translation of my Education 1.0 – Education 3.0 taxonomy at gabinetedeinformatica.net last week. The table has since appeared at quite a few other blogs in the Spanish-language blogosphere: Thanks, Fernando! (The English version of the table appears here.)
Where is the drive for entrepreneurship?
4/6/2008
The StarTribune is running an excellent story on an intellectual property crisis at the University of Minnesota that probably is contextualizable to other “Research I”/”Research Universities (RU/VH)” universities as well: Entrepreneurship is avoided. Perhaps this is a cultural thing: The university “provides all sorts of disincentives to new technology,” John Alexander, president of Twin Cities [...]
Moving beyond Education 2.0
2/15/2008
There’s a lot of talk about moving to “Education 2.0″ –but, what would Education 3.0 look like? Here’s my take on the Education 1.0 – 3.0 spectrum: Education 1.0 Education 2.0 Education 3.0 Meaning is… Dictated Socially constructed Socially constructed and contextually reinvented Technology is… Confiscated at the classroom door (digital refugees) Cautiously adopted (digital [...]
World Competitiveness Ranking – Where is Japan?
1/28/2008
World Competitiveness. For the first entry of my guest-blogging, this topic would not be too bad, I suppose. Thus, World Competitiveness. According to World Competitive Yearbook 2007 by IMD (International Institute for Management Development), Japan is now ranked in the 24th place, sliding out of the top twenty. Allowing China to pass (China rose from [...]
Two grant opportunities for innovators in education
9/11/2007
Two grant opportunities for innovators in education landed on my desk recently. The first is a little bit of old news: The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation recently announced a public competition that will award $2 million in funding to emerging leaders, communicators, and innovators shaping the field of digital media and learning. [...]
Leapfrogging to an innovation-driven society
3/11/2006
In an interview with Frank Moss, director of MIT’s Media Lab, BusinessWeek uncovers a vision for the future driven by disruptive change. This thinking is behind a new breed of entrepreneurs who, says Moss: Resist the current temptation to make incremental changes to attract funding. It might get you off the ground, but I don’t [...]
A boost to online universities
3/4/2006
The US Congres recently opened the flow of student financial aid to online universities. Since 1992, the government required that, to be eligible for financial aid, higher education institutions must provide at least half of their classes in person. This change brings new competitive challenges to “traditional” universities. The influence of for-profit institutions is growing. [...]
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