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Business model approach and tools based on Business Canvass and Customer Development principals.

"He compares traditional teaching to "giving people thousands of rubber mallets and asking them to drill a hole through a mountain." He said, "We need nitroglycerine." His "nitroglycerine" is Saylor.org, a nonprofit online university he backs as sole trustee of the Saylor Foundation. Saylor's model is to offer students a free, one-stop shop for self-paced college courses. Saylor.org aggregates free content offered by open-source providers like MIT OpenCourseWare and Open Yale Courses, and groups it so that students can pursue a continuous sequence of courses in a major. The model takes a different approach than that of high-profile providers of massive open online courses, or MOOC's, mainly in its role as an aggregator of online content into comprehensive courses. Instead of following a professor through a series of video lectures and peer-graded exercises on Coursera, for example, students in Saylor courses read, listen to, and watch material from different sources and grade themselves using answer keys."

"Alex Osterwalder - From Business Plan to Business Model"

"Blended learning is a hot topic today, as is self-directed learning and customized learning.  Put them all together and you get a self-blended model like this.  It is a laudable effort with good potential.  This idea of the self-blend is a powerful concept and I would like to expand it beyond just this one approach.  In order to do so, let me suggest a few thoughts and questions."

"Blended learning is a hot topic today, as is self-directed learning and customized learning. Put them all together and you get a self-blended model like this. It is a laudable effort with good potential. This idea of the self-blend is a powerful concept and I would like to expand it beyond just this one approach. In order to do so, let me suggest a few thoughts and questions."

The Evolution of Cognition William L. Benzon and David G. Hays Abstract: With cultural evolution new processes of thought appear. Abstraction is universal, but rationalization first appeared in ancient Greece, theorization in Renaissance Italy, and model building in twentieth-century Europe. These processes employ the methods of metaphor, metalingual definition, algorithm, and control, respectively. The intellectual and practical achievements of populations guided by the several processes and exploiting the different mechanisms differ so greatly as to warrant separation into cultural ranks. The fourth rank is not completely formed, while regions of the world and parts of every population continue to operate by the processes of earlier ranks.

"The EdUmatics project aims to provide teachers of secondary mathematics with support to learn to use and integrate technology within their classrooms. The resources for professional development, whilst aimed at teachers, include a range of tasks for students to enable them to use technology within modelling and problem-solving activities. These are available in the different project languages. The resources include links to free and trial software, applications and animations in addition to tasksheets and helpsheets that can be adapted for different scenarios. If you are a teacher trainer, there is additional guidance to support you to use the professional development modules with teachers and trainee teachers."

The Worst Consequence of Your Best Ideas You have to wonder why desks in rows and textbooks on the desks have survived as long as they have as the dominant instructional model when so few people think that it's actually a good way to teach and learn. And then you realize that while it never goes all that right, it rarely goes all that wrong either. Teachers don't usually get in trouble when administrators walk into their classroom and see kids with books open, doing work, even if the work isn't worth doing. And all those other ideas that we love so much - inquiry, project-based learning, technology, real world application of student work - they get so… messy. And something always seems to go wrong. And we have to face that education is a somewhat reactionary field to work in. The death of so many good ideas is when something goes wrong and someone decides that we should never do that again.