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Henry Liebling

The Berkana Institute - 2 views

www.berkana.org

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shared by Henry Liebling on 15 May 12 - Cached
  • Henry Liebling on 15 May 12
     
    "For twenty years, The Berkana Institute has worked in friendship and partnership with people around the world who are discovering that there is no power for change greater than a community discovering what it cares about."
Lucy Gray

impossible2Possible.com - 2 views

www.impossible2possible.com

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shared by Lucy Gray on 11 Jul 09 - Cached
  • Lucy Gray on 11 Jul 09
     
    Students can follow adventurers on extreme adventures through this project. The founder keynoted the 2008 ADE Institute in Florida.
Lucy Gray

Factories Ready to Hire, but Skilled Workers Scarce - NYTimes.com - 1 views

www.nytimes.com/...02manufacturing.html

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shared by Lucy Gray on 02 Jul 10 - Cached
  • In a survey last year of 779 industrial companies by the National Association of Manufacturers, the Manufacturing Institute and Deloitte, the accounting and consulting firm, 32 percent of companies reported “moderate to serious” skills shortages. Sixty-three percent of life science companies, and 45 percent of energy firms cited such shortages.
  • Employers say they are looking for aptitude as much as specific skills. “We are trying to find people with the right mindset and intelligence,” said Mr. Murphy.
  • Local leaders worry that the skills shortage now will be exacerbated once baby boomers start retiring. In Ohio, officials project that about 30 percent of the state’s manufacturing workers will be eligible for retirement by 2016.
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  • The jobs, which would pay $18 to $23 an hour, require considerable technical skill.
  • anonymous on 02 Jul 10
     
    Is assessing basic skills enough in a global economy?
  • anonymous on 02 Jul 10
     
    Yong Zaho is right, the US will loose by teaching to and assessing for basic skills. As Richard Florida and Dan Pink write about it is the Creative Class where there is real growth.
Tero Toivanen

Times Higher Education - From where I sit - Everyone wins in this free-for-all - 4 views

www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp

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shared by Tero Toivanen on 11 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • The term open educational resources (OER) encapsulates the simple but powerful idea that the world's knowledge is a public good. The internet offers unprecedented opportunities to share, use and reuse knowledge. Sadly, most of the planet is underserved when it comes to post-secondary education.
  • But while in our research we have no problem with sharing and building on the ideas of others, in education the perception is that we must lock teaching materials behind restrictive copyright barriers that minimise sharing.
  • Sometimes universities justify this position on the grounds that the open licensing of courses will damage their advantage in the student recruitment market. These publicly funded institutions expect taxpayers to pay twice for learning materials.
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  • Individuals are free to learn from OER hosted on the open web. It is, therefore, plausible that we can design and develop an "OER university" that will provide free learning for all students worldwide.
  • Working with Otago Polytechnic in New Zealand, the University of Southern Queensland in Australia and Athabasca University in Canada as founding anchor partners, we aim to help provide flexible pathways for OER learners to earn formal academic credentials and pay reduced fees for assessment and credit services under the community service mission of modern universities.
  • The OER Foundation will host an open planning meeting on 23 February to lay the foundations for this significant intervention. With support from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation, the meeting will be streamed on the web, and we invite all educational leaders to join us at this meeting in planning for the mainstream adoption of OER in post-secondary institutions.
  • Tero Toivanen on 11 Feb 11
     
    The term open educational resources (OER) encapsulates the simple but powerful idea that the world's knowledge is a public good. The internet offers unprecedented opportunities to share, use and reuse knowledge. Sadly, most of the planet is underserved when it comes to post-secondary education.
Lucy Gray

DukeEngage | International Programs - 0 views

dukeengage.duke.edu/...international

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shared by Lucy Gray on 01 Jun 09 - Cached
  • Lucy Gray on 01 Jun 09
     
    Duke has a community service program that has an international component. This might be a good example of how higher education institutions are incorporating global initiatives.
Julie Lindsay

Fernando M. Reimers - Educating Global Citizens - YouTube - 5 views

www.youtube.com/watch

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shared by Julie Lindsay on 30 Jun 17 - No Cached
  • Julie Lindsay on 30 Jun 17
     
    This is a 'must watch' video - and the associated books are $1 each on Amazon to support understanding the concept and practice within schools and institutions.
Lucy Gray

Central Asia Institute » Home - 0 views

www.ikat.org

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shared by Lucy Gray on 23 Aug 09 - No Cached
  • Lucy Gray on 23 Aug 09
     
    Greg Mortenson's organization Three Cups of Tea author
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