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Stanford's unique approach to teaching problem solving - What's Next - CNN.com Blogs - 1 views
Dear "Skeptics," Bash Homeopathy and Bigfoot Less, Mammograms and War More - Scientific... - 1 views
The Power Of Storytelling - Ceros Blog - 0 views
Academics to Udacity Founder: Told Ya - Wired Campus - Blogs - The Chronicle of Higher ... - 0 views
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"Thrun seems to have 'discovered' that open-access, distance-education students struggle to complete," wrote Martin Weller, a professor of educational technology at the Open University, in Britain. "I don't want to sound churlish here, but hey, the OU has known this for 40 years."
Writing in the Here and Now - NYTimes.com - 0 views
critics see reason as an inherently flawed instrument - 0 views
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re: the psychologist Jonathan Haidt: In Haidt's view, the philosophers' dream of reason isn't just naïve, it is radically unfounded, the product of what he calls "the rationalist delusion." As he puts it, "Anyone who values truth should stop worshiping reason. We all need to take a cold, hard look at the evidence and see reasoning for what it is." Haidt sees two points about reasoning to be particularly important: the first concerns the efficacy (or lack thereof) of reasoning; the second concerns the point of doing so publicly: of exchanging reasons.
Converged education - 1 views
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"includes combinations of synchronous and asynchronous, campus-based, online, distributed, simulation and massive open online course (MOOC)"
Memoir in Six Words - 0 views
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Arty dad, rocker mom, crazy childhood. (Summer Pierre)