Posts Tagged ‘Education’
YouTube For Schools
YouTube for Schools lets schools access free educational YouTube videos while limiting access to other YouTube content. Students can learn from more than 400,000 educational videos, from well-known organizations like Stanford, PBS and TED.
Read MoreClass Of 2015
Tom McBride, the Keefer Professor of Humanities at Beloit College, discusses this year’s Mindset List for the Class of 2015, who were born in 1993.
Read MoreSteve Jobs' 2005 Stanford Commencement Speech
Steve Jobs addresses Stanford’s graduating class of 2005 and shares three lessons he’s learned.
Read MoreOnline Education
By 2014, 81% of post-secondary students will take some or all of their classes online.
Read MoreUbiquitous Computing: Raspberry Pi, Computer On A Stick
David Braben explains to the BBC’s Rory Cellan-Jones the Raspberry PI scheme designed to give a cheap computer on a stick to every child.
Read MoreFull Circle: The Facebook Goes Back To School
Colleges and Universities have discovered The Facebook.
Read MorePoetry App: T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land
This is a glimpse into the future of education: Max Whitby provides a guided tour of a tablet app that explores T.S. Eliot’s amazing poem, The Waste Land.
Read MoreSocial Promotion
62% of admissions officers say students’ social media profiles have generally helped them get accepted.
Read MoreHigher Education & Social Media Use In The Classroom
Nearly a third of college professors said they instructed students to watch online videos as homework, and about 73% said they thought YouTube videos.
Read MoreSkillshare: Informal Education
Skillshare is helping to enable community-based, informal education by providing an online infrastructure for organizing and promoting classes taught by skilled individuals.
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