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Tomoko Matsukawa

Japan's LINE social network could challenge global competitors | The Japan Times Online - 0 views

www.japantimes.co.jp/...nc20120718aa.html

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  • Tomoko Matsukawa on 05 Dec 12
     
    Do any of you know 'LINE'? as of last months, 80mn users globally (36mn users in Japan) and its pace of growth is exceeding that of any other types of social media in the country (Facebook, Twitter, etc). They target 1) users who have smartphones but not PC, 2) those who are interested in communication emotions effectively through ''emoticons'. If some people are concerned about how twitter/facebook/texting would have adverse impact on children language skill, let's talk about the implication of this thing if kids learn to communicate just by selecting emoticons (whose designs and variety are great by the way) and sending that to each other. I still have LINE on my PC but seeing this rapid growth in my home country concerns me a bit. 
Maung Nyeu

New Study: Over 6 Million Students Learning Online -- WELLESLEY, Mass., Nov. 9, 2011 /P... - 0 views

www.prnewswire.com/...learning-online-133523438.html

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  • Maung Nyeu on 10 Nov 11
     
    Over 6 million students are learning online. More importantly, the rate of growth is 10% per year compared to 2% student population growth in higher education.
Cameron Paterson

A Case for Disruptive Education - 3 views

teachingcollegemath.com/...holy_grail_education_draft.pdf

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  • Cameron Paterson on 30 Oct 10
     
    A system for personalized learning will not grow from inside formal education. Education is like a field that's been overplanted, with only patches of fertile soil. Too many stakeholders (parents, Unions, adhow to change, acting like weeds or plagues that choke off plant growth. The fresh and fertile soil of the open web can foster the quick growth of a personalized learning system. ministration, faculty) compete with each other with various ideas about
Chris Dede

Growth of online instruction continues, though unevenly | Policy | eSchoolNews.com - 3 views

www.eschoolnews.com/...tion-continues-though-unevenly

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  • Chris Dede on 17 Nov 10
     
    Study on effect of economy for online learning
Tomoko Matsukawa

New Report: We're Not As Connected As We Think - Pankaj Ghemawat and Steven A. Altman -... - 0 views

blogs.hbr.org/...eport_world_less_globaliz.html

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  • Tomoko Matsukawa on 13 Dec 12
     
    The DHL's Global Connectedness report is interesting. The pillar is composed of trade/capital/information/people. Total rank of connectedness: US 20th. Each page for country analysis is helpful to think about kind of education is required for each country's future growth. 
Eric Kattwinkel

NYTimes: Learning in Dorm, Because Class Is on the Web - 2 views

www.nytimes.com/...05college.html

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  • Eric Kattwinkel on 05 Nov 10
     
    A mostly negative take on the growth of online learning in higher ed.
Devon Dickau

New report highlights barriers to online learning | 21st Century Education | eSchoolNew... - 1 views

www.eschoolnews.com/...ts-barriers-to-online-learning

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  • The report, Enabled by Broadband, Education Enters a New Frontier, highlights success and growth in online education programs across the country. It also outlines the need for increased broadband access and suggests policy measures to ensure that barriers to continued growth in online learning are removed
  • keeping students engaged and in school
  • more than 1 million K-12 students were enrolled in online education programs in 2007
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  • The latest Pew Internet & American Life Project survey indicates that one-third of Americans do not have broadband access at home. And the U.S. Commerce Department just released Census data indicating that the nation still faces a significant gap in residential broadband use that breaks down along incomes, education levels, and other socio-economic factors
Brandon Bentley

ARTLAB+ - 2 views

artlabplus.si.edu/...about.html

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shared by Brandon Bentley on 23 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • Brandon Bentley on 23 Nov 10
     
    ARTLAB+ is a digital media studio that gives local teens the opportunity to become integral members of a design team. They create new visitor experiences at the Hirshhorn, taking their inspiration from its permanent collection and temporary exhibitions. ARTLAB+ designers hone crucial twenty-first century skills as they make videos, animations, wikis, games, podcasts, and more. By the end of every project session, the design team has created a unique product that enriches the museum experiences of other visitors and showcases each teen's creative growth. After-school, weekend, and weeklong ARTLAB+ workshops are held year-round to accommodate a wide variety of schedules. We welcome all teens, regardless of experience. Looks like a great way to help introduce twenty-first century skills- BB
  • kshapton on 28 Nov 10
     
    This is really cool- combining mobile, situated learning in the real world, with creative group projects, and letting kids direct their own active, learning 'flow'.. Can this scale up to schools (or after-school programs), without access to museum artifacts and mobile devices?
Pearl Phaovisaid

Tech Start-Ups Find a Home on the Prairie - NYTimes.com - 4 views

www.nytimes.com/...-root-in-the-great-plains.html

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  • Pearl Phaovisaid on 23 Nov 12
     
    Emerging technology has had a strong geographical component. With Google Fiber up and running in Kansas City and tech start-ups burgeoning in Des Moines, we may see yet another wellspring of innovation in the Midwest. This could have significant implications on rural education and agtech.
  • Danna Ortiz on 23 Nov 12
     
    There were numerous communities in Colorado that tried to lure Google Fiber; it looks like it's paying off for KC. It would be interesting to see the tech start-up numbers in comparison to other US locales. I would like more details as to why only two regions increased their share of angel investors.
  • Pearl Phaovisaid on 24 Nov 12
     
    My guess is that insufficient momentum or critical mass exists in other regions, Danna. The article mentions the Southwest and Great Plains as two regions with an increase in angel investors. The Southwest probably represents spillover from Silicon Valley, while the Great Plains benefits from large metropolitan areas, good universities, and a concentration of young professional residents. I also think that tech start-ups and VC firm naturally promote the growth of one another.
Cole Shaw

Sale of McGraw-Hill's education division - 2 views

www.digitalbookworld.com/...ucation-technology-growth-wave

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  • Cole Shaw on 29 Nov 12
     
    For the business-type folks in the class, McGraw-Hill just sold its Education division to a private equity company. They think that education will continue to be a good investment.
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  • Harvey Shaw on 29 Nov 12
     
    Interesting that they sold it to Apollo Group. The parent company of UPhoenix seems to be shifting their investments around, having just closed, what 40% of UPhoenix's brick-and-mortar campuses?
  • Cole Shaw on 03 Dec 12
     
    Yeah, I thought it was weird. I looked into that--I think the sale is to a different "Apollo" group. UPhoenix is something like "Apollo Group" whereas McGraw Hill sold their division to "Apollo Global Management". I think they are different entities, but it is hard to tell. If they are the same organization, it is definitely a weird sign of shifting investments.
  • Harvey Shaw on 03 Dec 12
     
    Cole, you're absolutely right, I missed that Apollo Global Mgmt is a VC firm.
Erin Connors

How Social Gaming is Improving Education - 3 views

mashable.com/...social-gaming-education

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  • Erin Connors on 17 Sep 12
     
    Interesting article - highlights the growth of virtual training tools and their capacity to improve real world tasks. Example: "The amazing results of the training and simulation program have led to significantly improved grades on students' critical skills tests, taking scores from a 56% success in 2007, to 95% at the end of 2008 after the simulation was instituted."
Diego Vallejos

Proof in Study: Math App Improves Test Scores (And Engagement) - 7 views

mindshift.kqed.org/...ves-test-scores-and-engagement

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  • Diego Vallejos on 08 Dec 11
     
    Ipad app that teaches fractions
  • Kasthuri Gopalaratnam on 09 Dec 11
     
    I tend to agree with Professor Cuban - "IPads are marvelous tools to engage kids, but then the novelty wears off and you get into hard-core issues of teaching and learning." The real challenge is to convert the initial excitement and performance improvement into sustained progress. The key may be in leveraging the increased self-efficacy of students.
  • Allison Browne on 10 Dec 11
     
    This article makes me wonder about the novelty bump you get when you try anything new. In EcoMuve, they researched the effectiveness of EcoMuve vs a new ecology classroom based activity. This tactic is measuring the effectiveness of the technology. However in these studies, if they had kids using a computer game to practice fractions, did the control group practice fractions using a classroom based activity? 15% growth is not much to get excited about.
Melinda Schindler

Reed Hastings, John Doerr and others invest $11 million in DreamBox Learnin - 2 views

www.geekwire.com/...t-11-million-dreambox-learning

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  • Melinda Schindler on 08 Dec 11
     
    Is anyone familiar with Dreambox Learning? Looks like it's getting touted as yet another means of boosting test scores.
  • Allison Browne on 10 Dec 11
     
    5% growth? Not astounding but maybe they'll have the secret sauce one day.
Emily Watson

Blended Learning: Iterating Toward Better Learning At Scale - 1 views

blogs.edweek.org/..._better_learning_at_scale.html

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  • Emily Watson on 29 Sep 12
     
    Alex Hernandez from the Charter Growth Fund highlights some key topics in blended learning, one of which is 'Can we increase the velocity of learning and create more space for such things as projects, the arts and deep thinking?' While so much emphasis is placed in STEM education, the idea of also utilizing blended learning environments to foster creativity and engage students in artistic processes is one we should also consider.
Harley Chang

The King of MOOCs Abdicates the Throne - 3 views

www.slate.com/...cessful_for_most_students.html

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  • Harley Chang on 21 Nov 13
     
    Sebastian Thrun, CEO of Udacity, has openly admitted that his company's MOOC courses are a lousy replacement for actual university class and instead will be taking his company to focus more on corporate training. I personally will reserve further judgement until after I finish the readings for next week.
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  • Grif Peterson on 21 Nov 13
     
    I posted this article in G+ a day or two ago. Some of the better commentary surrounding this article below. Tressie McMillan Cottom: "Thrun says it wasn't a failure. It was a lesson. But for the students who invested time and tuition in an experiment foisted on them by the of stewards public highered trusts, failure is a lesson they didn't need." Rebecca Schuman: "Thrun blames neither the corporatization of the university nor the MOOC's use of unqualified "student mentors" in assessment. Instead, he blames the students themselves for being so poor." Stephen Downes: "I think that what amuses me most about the reaction to the Thrun story is the glowing descriptions of him have only intensified. "The King of MOOCs." "The Genius Godfather of MOOCs." Really now. As I and the many other people working toward the same end have pointed out repeatedly, the signal change in MOOCs is openess, not whatever it was (hubris? VC money?) that Thrun brought to the table. Rebecca Schuman claims this is a victory for "the tiny, for-credit, in-person seminar." It's not that, no more than the Titanic disaster was a victory for wind-powered passenger transportation."
  • Molly Wasser on 29 Nov 13
     
    Grif - where did the Stephen Downes quote come from ? I read the Rebecca Schuman article and don't really agree with her. To expand on the Schuman quote you posted - it's really interesting how she says the massive lecture format doesn't work but then provides two examples of massive technology that do work - texting and World of Warcraft. This relates directly to some of what we talked about earlier this semester. I don't think it's the 'massive,' as Schuman implies, that causes the failure of a MOOC. It's part of the design. Once the design is better and more engaging, then MOOCs may find that they have higher retention rates. Schuman: Successful education needs personal interaction and accountability, period. This is, in fact, the same reason students feel annoyed, alienated, and anonymous in large lecture halls and thus justified in sexting and playing World of Warcraft during class-and why the answer is not the MOOC, but the tiny, for-credit, in-person seminar that has neither a sexy acronym nor a potential for huge corporate partnerships.
  • Grif Peterson on 09 Dec 13
     
    The Downes quote was from OLDaily, which is a daily listserve of his that I subscribe too. I think the difference between texting/WoW and MOOCs is that, while both have many many users, the former two have means in which those groups are disaggregated into smaller units that are largely responsible for the UX/individual growth that goes on. I agree with you that massive is not necessarily the failure, in fact, I think it's the best thing they have going for them. However, until the design can leverage meaningful collaboration, like WoW and texting, the massive will remain a burden.
Mohammad Hussain

ISTE (International Society for Technology in Education) - 0 views

www.isteconference.org/2011

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  • Mohammad Hussain on 14 Oct 10
     
    ISTE educational technology conference is a great way to learn about the recent developments in educational technology and a great way to meet other teachers and educators and to share and exchange ideas for professional growth. ISTE 2011 will be held in Philadelphia, PA, USA, with a theme of "Unlocking Potential." More than 18,000 education professionals and technology industry reps are expected to attend June 26-29, 2011.
Margaret O'Connell

Women Key to Global Economic Growth - 1 views

www.thecoca-colacompany.com/...women_key_economic_growth.html

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  • I would like to begin a discussion today about the future of our global economy and society. Specifically, I'd like to talk about women, and the role women will play in transforming our global economy and society over the next decade. I also want to share some thoughts on the role women will play in helping transform The Coca-Cola Company over the next decade and beyond.
  • I think there's another way of looking at this as well -- one that goes beyond national comparisons. In fact, I would say that the real drivers of the "Post-American World" won't be China... or India... or Brazil -- or any nation for that matter. The real drivers will be women. Women entrepreneurs. Women business, political, academic and cultural leaders. Women innovators.
  • The truth is women already are the most dynamic and fastest-growing economic force in the world today. Women now control over $20 trillion dollars in spending worldwide. To put that into context -- that's an economic impact larger than the U.S., China and India economies combined. But there's so much more to the story.
pradeepg

Berkman fellow blog: Is Information Technology Beneficial ? ( in this case economic gr... - 1 views

blogs.law.harvard.edu/...benefits-it

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  • pradeepg on 01 Oct 11
     
    access to information leads to greater economic opportunities. I am sure there are several explanations but.. I post this article, because it got me thinking about a concept from a paper on universal design for learning : access to information is not the same as access to learning. As more and more people have increasing access to large amounts of information , progress for all will depend on making it easily accessible How can we do that online ? I am not sure where I am going with this thread, but it all seems interesting to me.... any thoughts ?
  • Allison Browne on 02 Oct 11
     
    Well, I guess if we equate the spread of the printing press to creating a new market (i.e. purchasing printed materials) then this is how economic opportunities increased. But those printed materials spread more quickly when the readers received content that was designed by the people similar to themselves. Likewise, the spread of online learning environments must also connect to greater usage in general; however, learning may be limited for the user with sites that are designed by an alternative culture that does not represent the user's. What do you think?
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