Posts Tagged ‘ resources ’

2011 Educators’ Choice Awards: An Adobe reboot?

8/4/2011

Make no mistake. Adobe makes great products. But, it is hard for educators and students to connect with them. First, the company produces professional-grade tools (Photoshop, Premiere Pro, After Effects, etc.), and, as a result, they are very expensive for resource-starved institutions to purchase (even with discounted education pricing). Second, these professional-grade tools often come [...]


Invisible Learning released

4/28/2011
Invisible Learning - book cover

Cristóbal Cobo and I are pleased to announce that the Spanish edition of our new book, Invisible Learning (Aprendizaje Invisible), has just been released by the University of Barcelona (Col·lecció Transmedia XXI. Laboratori de Mitjans Interactius / Publicacions i Edicions de la Universitat de Barcelona). The e-book is available for purchase at the UB website [...]


The Emerging and Future Roles of Academic Libraries

3/28/2011
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Libraries are actively reinventing themselves for the digital age.  Confronted with corrosive budgets, skyrocketing costs, and challenged by a fear of obsolesce resulting from the accelerating rate of technological change; libraries are struggling for their survival.  For the academic library — the “heart” of the modern research university — survival requires demonstrating their value in new ways, [...]


Got a business plan for Open Educational Resources?

11/30/2010
Startl Prize for Open Educational Resources

Startl has announced a $25,000 competition, soliciting business plans for best uses of Open Educational Resources. The prize is modest, but this could turn into a generator of alternative ideas for education.


Five secrets futurists don’t want you to know

3/9/2010

Professional futurists continue to make outstanding contributions toward the development of understandings of the future, but is futures thought limited to this select group? Definitely not! With a do-it-yourself attitude, and leverage of the right resources, anybody can become an effective futurist. Here’s why: Nobody knows the future – don’t trust anybody who says otherwise. [...]


Fab Lab: Build ‘almost anything’

2/3/2010

“The Fab Lab program has strong connections with the technical outreach activities of a number of partner organizations, around the emerging possibility for ordinary people to not just learn about science and engineering but actually design machines and make measurements that are relevant to improving the quality of their lives.” [MIT Center for Bits and [...]


Share the love: Embedding the Education Futures timeline

12/21/2009

Did you know the Education Futures timeline of education is Creative Commons licensed? You’re invited to share the love! Simply cut-and-paste this text into your blog or website (assumes a column width of 500px): <div align=”center”><iframe src=”http://www.educationfutures.com/flashtimeline/index-500.html” width=”500″ height=”310″ scrolling=”no” frameborder=”0″></iframe><p>Source: <a href=”http://www.educationfutures.com/resources/timeline”>Education Futures</a></p></div> …and, it should create this: Source: Education Futures


A video invitation to join the Invisible Learning project

12/3/2009

More at www.invisiblelearning.com…


Invisible Learning: Designing cultures of sustainable innovation

12/2/2009

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 [...]


The path to Education 3.0

4/17/2008

Here are the slides from the first half of my talk with Dr. Cristóbal Cobo at CUAED (UNAM) yesterday that described the pathway toward Education 3.0: In addition to the work I mentioned during the talk, I recommend the following resources to participants: Allee, V. (2003). The future of knowledge: Increasing prosperity through value networks. [...]


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Open source conference: From information to innovative knowledge

On April 16, I will join Dr. Cristóbal Cobo and colleagues at UNAM in Mexico City for an “Open source conference: From information to innovative knowledge.” I will frame my talk around my Education 1.0 – 3.0 taxonomy, and discuss how co-seminars/open seminars help to create relevant educational experiences for modern learners. Since I will [...]


Slides and a picture from Friday’s Horizon Forum meeting

A full report from last Friday’s Horizon Forum meeting (see announcement) will be posted at Education Futures by Jeffrey Schulz soon. In the meantime, here’s the slides from North American Council for Online Learning (NACOL) vice president Allison Powell: And, a picture from the event:


The LeapFrog principles and outcomes

Slides from last week’s presentations at Edison High School and the Minnesota House E-12 Education Committee Working Group on High School Redesign: These slides are also posted at the LeapFrog Institutes.


Additional slides from the Mexico 2030 conference

Here are my slides from the Mexico 2030 conference on building LeapFrog campuses:


Youth Futures: Leapfrogging from Century 18 to Century 21

Slides from Saturday’s Global Youth Policy Seminar presentation by Arthur Harkins and myself follow:


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