The power user is essentially the new tribe leader.

Some marketers have recognised this are have seen the need to build relationships with the top users.

For the wisdom of crowds to work, every individual must work independently.

To innovate or wait: that is the question confronting IT managers on an almost weekly basis.

Perhaps the question instead should be how best to move in this direction yet avoid the faddish false starts that the Chronicle writer cautioned against.

In a nutshell, this theory holds that learning is strengthened, deepened, and made more effective when it is social, is engaged, provides formative assessment (as opposed to just summative), is relevant (tying content to students' concerns), and offers learners multiple paths. But perhaps the single most important component of constructivist learning theory is that learning happens best when students are active—not merely taking notes in lecture halls but writing, thinking, experimenting, creating, and devising.

Pitroda said the scale of such goals requires questioning basic assumptions about what education is and how it is accomplished

And everyone involved seems quite happy with being unsure about why exactly it’s important.

The OCW resources, including video-taped labs, simulations, assignments and other hands-on material, have been categorized to match up with the requirements of high school Advanced Placement studies.

Blogging is an opportunity to exchange our point of view with the rest of the world not just people in our immediate environment

Today, the weblog is frequently characterized (and criticized) as (only) a set of personal comments and observations. A look at the history of weblogging shows that this isn’t the case.

Weblogs (so named in 1997 by Jorn Barger in his Robot Wisdom Web site)

giving educators and students an unprecedented opportunity for easy self-expression and reflection that anyone can access--and to which anyone can respond.

There is an excitement that comes from writing for a real, authentic audience instead of a circular file seen only by the teacher,

So, what makes a good blog? The quality of its ideas is important, panelists said, and so is the personality of the blog and its writer. It's important for this personality to come through, so that "you really feel like you're having a human interaction,"

CAI (computer-assisted instruction) approach to education which was strictly content-based and driven by behavioral objectives.

Fifteen minutes per day on a machine should suffice for each of these programs, the machines being free for other students for the rest of each day. (It is probably because traditional methods are so inefficient that we have been led to suppose that education requires such a prodigious part of a young person's day).