wonderfully designed hypertext project on what libraries might mean today, with all those books few people read; a model of a hypertext exploration of an important intellectual topic
CiteULike is a free service to help academics to share, store, and organise the academic papers they are reading. When you see a paper on the web that interests you, you can click one button and have it added to your personal library.
"In an environment where it's easy to publish to the globe, it feels more and more hollow to ask students to "hand in" their homework to an audience of one. When we're faced with a flattening world where collaboration is becoming the norm, forcing student
En ny genomgripande enhetsteori om världsalltets historia är på kommande. David Christians Maps of Time. An Introduction to Big History (2005, University of California Press) presenterar dess grunder.
How do people become professional programmers? Many people go the "traditional" path through a computer science or software engineering education and from there into professional programming work.
The 2006 Horizon Report, just as has been the case with previous editions of the report, highlights six technologies that the underlying research suggests will become very important to higher education over the next one to five years.
"Archived course Web sites presented "as is," including student work good and bad, sections left un-updated, and typos." Attractive and useful pedagogical use of Internet in teaching.
# available courses Find individual course listings on the following MIT OCW Department pages, or view a complete course list. # Aeronautics and Astronautics # Anthropology # Architecture # Athletics, Physical Education and Recreation # Biological Enginee
An Indian physicist puts a PC with a high speed internet connection in a wall in the slums and watches what happens. Based on the results, he talks about issues of digital divide, computer education and kids, the dynamics of the third world getting online.
New Delhi physicist Sugata Mitra has a radical proposal for bringing his country's next generation into the Info Age
For teaching film, popular tags to follow include "narrative," "fiction," "story." It makes a good early Easy assignment: ask students to do a photo narrative, which now can be posted in Flickr and tagged with a class title, e.g., "101lesage"--teacher mu
Intelligent fingerprint: In his 1983 book called Frames of Mind, Howard Gardner of Harvard University identified seven intelligences we all possess. Because our understanding of the brain and human behavior is constantly changing, the number of intelligen
blog entries around a specific set of questions about teaching in higher education; collected and commented on at regular intervals by a "host" blogger
P. Backlund, and M. Hendrix. Games and Virtual Worlds for Serious Applications (VS-GAMES), 2013 5th International Conference on, page 1-8. (September 2013)