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December 19, 2011 By Marc Parry Millions of learners have enjoyed the free lecture videos and other course materials published online through the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's OpenCourseW...
8:42am Dec 21 Minority Introduction to Engineering and Science (MITES) Program Do you know a high school junior that is extremely intelligent and hard working? Has this student been re...
Don't show, don't tell? http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/teaching-children-0630.html Cognitive scientists find that when teaching young children, there is a trade-off between direct instructi...
MIT linguist reveals how modern English resembles Old Japanese, and other surprising convergences between far-flung tongues. Peter Dizikes, MIT News Office February 22, 2012 Shigeru Miyagawa, ...
Food and Culture As taught in: Spring 2011 A photograph of a child eating dim sum. http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/anthropology/21a-265-food-and-culture-spring-2011/ Food plays an important rol...
Guest post: An 'Arab Spring' of free online higher education By Daniel de Vise http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/college-inc/post/guest-post-an-arab-spring-of-free-online-higher-education/201...
Suppose someone showed you a novel gadget and told you, "Here's how it works," while demonstrating a single function, such as pushing a button. What would you do when they handed it to you? You'd ...
Ravitch: Pearson's expanding role in education By Valerie Strauss http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/post/ravitch-pearsons-expanding-role-in-education/2012/05/07/gIQApr4H8T_blog....
12/13/11 Students are different today because of technology. Every educator knows this, of course, but this change is about much more than agile thumbs, shriveling attention spans, and OMG'd vocabu...
Collect articles and browse other HuffPost members' collections. I'm one of many nerds who started programming with an Apple II. I bought the first Mac in 1984, right before I got on a plane t...
Web News Briefs 1. My ISTE 2011: Takeaways from a conference To me, ISTE - with some 13,000 attendees from 68 countries having converged on Philadelphia this week - is like looking out the window...
