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Virtual world devoted to science, technology and free educational games online

here's an edu startup that contains 14 MOOCs, massive open online courses. It's one of the first that got set up by Stanford University. One popular free course in computer science had 94,000 students when it ran the first time. Not all of them continued or finished but recenty, Colorado University announced that its global online campus would accept transfer credits towards a bachelor's degree if the students could pass a proctored final exam. Welcome to the crowdsourced future of higher education.

Edutopia article on uses of Google Hangout for elementary, middle/high school, mentoring, higher ed and administrators

Sebastian Thrun on MOOCs

Coursera is a that exactly. I am even taking a similar class to our own right now. https://class.coursera.org/sna-2012-001/class/index

Interesting Article when looking at how to create common places that appeal to both sides of the brain. It got me thinking about how to appeal to different learning styles in the education arena. Additionally, It got me thinking about how i always envied left brained thinkers rather then embraced the fact that I'm really a Righty. Thank God for freedom! Right Brain People Unite!

September 09, 2013 at 03:16PM

September 09, 2013 at 03:16PM

Mobile Learning Academy: learn how to create a mobile learning concept using mobile storytelling tools

These papers describe basic features of the data and how it was retrieved and processed. Because it is a very large data set there will inevitably be some mistakes in it. I do my best to continue improving the data--if you find mistakes please let me know and I will fix them.

NetLogo is a multi-agent programmable modeling environment. It is used by tens of thousands of students, teachers and researchers worldwide. It also powers HubNet participatory simulations. It is authored by Uri Wilensky and developed at the CCL. You can download it free of charge.

LiveJournal is a vibrant global social media platform where users share common passions and interests. With hundreds of communities built around popular interests, like entertainment, celebrity gossip, music, food, travel, fashion, parenting, pets, and more, LiveJournal users express themselves through creative journaling and lively commentary.

The Computational Legal Studies Blog was founded on March 17, 2009. The CLS Blog is an attempt to disseminate legal or law related studies that employ a computational or complex systems component. We hope this venue will serve as a coordinating device for those interested in using such techniques to consider the development of legal systems and/or implementation of more reasoned public policy.

Neva Leona Boyd (* Sanborn, Iowa February 25 1876, † Chicago, November 21 1963) founded the Recreational Training School at the Hull House in Chicago. The school taught a one-year educational program in group games, gymnastics, dancing, dramatic arts, play theory, and social problems. She was on the faculty of Northwestern University as a sociologist from 1927 to 1941.

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The University of the People may actually be the very first edu MOOC in higher ed. Not certain but it has been developing for 4 years - I remember listening to podcasts of the founder talking at Harvard, MIT and Stanford. Even then, the concept of a massive open course was intriguing