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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.

Class 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.

Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford Commencement Speech

Steve Jobs addresses Stanford’s graduating class of 2005 and shares three lessons he’s learned.

Online Education

By 2014, 81% of post-secondary students will take some or all of their classes online.

Ubiquitous 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.

Full Circle: The Facebook Goes Back To School

Colleges and Universities have discovered The Facebook.

Poetry 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.

Social Promotion

62% of admissions officers say students’ social media profiles have generally helped them get accepted.

Higher 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.

Skillshare: 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.