Group items tagged

Video recording of Sebastian Thrun's (Google, Udacity) keynote at this week's 18th Annual Sloan Consortium Conference on Online Learning

If you're interested in trying to keep up with start-ups int he EdTech space this is a good blog to follow. It covers K-12 too so you have to filter some, but a good resource all the same.

@LauraZavelson of Elon U - mindmap connecting to EdTech Startups inventoried in "The Siege of Academe" Washington Monthly (http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/septemberoctober_2012/features/_its_three_oclock_in039373.php?page=1) - four clusters: - scaleable education - credentials - knowledge wrappers - learning enhancement

created by Larry Lugo, Professor at the University of Zulia, in Venezuela; also, Coordinator of Distance Learning in the College of Agriculture, where I'm also an Aggregate professor in tropical fruit production in undergraduate and graduate programs. My contact info: Twitter: @larrylugo / larry.lugo.u@gmail.com, larrylugo@fa.luz.edu.ve / Skype: lugolarry / WhatsApp: +58-414-6139174 (international) / Facetime and iOS messenger: larry.lugo.u@gmail.com / Web pages: www.fruticultura.net, www.rededucativa.org / Blog: larrylugo.blogspot.com

The future of learning is far more than new devices, digital content and online classrooms. It means potentially rewritten relationships between students and information, teachers and instruction, and schools and society.

VC investment in education in 2012 is projected to be 4x higher than in 2002

an "iLab," as he calls it-and it's scalable and cost-friendly.