Knowledge in the Public Interest (KPI)

By Justin Reich on Educational Technology Debate on December 8 2011. Reich argues, from his research on the use of wikis in the schools, that educational technology tends to benefit affluent students, rather than under-served students, primarily because there are more resources for students and teachers in the affluent environment, so teachers can use technology to its best advantage. He recommends technology initiatives that specifically target low-income and under-served students as a solution, and cites some interesting programs.

"Create a visualization in three easy steps "

We have developed powerful software and services, based on principles of organizational / social network analysis (ONA / SNA), to uncover relationship dynamics and reveal the self-organizing nature of groups.

Part of the MERLOT project, this site is a "digital case story repository that hosts more than 70 discipline-specific multimedia stories." The stories themselves are interesting. Also of note, the Creating Stories tab, for more on the production of such collaborative multimedia stories.

Tagline: Data sharing & collaboration made easy. Buzzdata allows users to share data sources, either within their own private network or more publicly. This data can then be used with other data (mashups) or for visualizations, or analyzed by journalists/academics.

Mashable.com is a very popular site for learning more about important social media tools, with information on trends, lists (e.g. 11 Essential Social Media Resources You Might Have Missed), and how-tos, included guides to Twitter and Facebook.

Welcome to eduMOOC 2011!

Identified by HubSpot--first one is on how outbound marketing has been eliminated by people's preferences for inbound marketing

This is the new home of Beth's Blog, "one of the longest running and most popular blogs for nonprofits."

A favorite of the KPI team.

Beth's impressions of the 2012 Philanthropy and Social Investment Industry Report and the conference she attended, December 2011. Love the example of the awesomely bad infographics--chuckle out loud funny.

"Word of Mouth, Social Marketing, Technology and Social CRM Solutions"

"MindTap is a new personal learning experience that combines all your digital assets - readings, multimedia, activities, and assessments- into a singular learning path to improve student outcomes."

" fun and incredibly easy for you to collaborate with your friends and family online."

"Technology enhanced learning (TEL) aims to design, develop and test socio-technical innovations that will support and enhance learning practices of both individuals and organisations. It is therefore an application domain that generally covers technologies that support all forms of teaching and learning activities. Since information retrieval (in terms of searching for relevant learning resources to support teachers or learners) is a pivotal activity in TEL, the deployment of recommender systems has attracted increased interest. This chapter attempts to provide an introduction to recommender systems for TEL settings, as well as to highlight their particularities compared to recommender systems for other application domains. "