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WikiEducator

The WikiEducator is an evolving community intended for the collaborative: planning of education projects linked with the development of free content; development of free content on Wikieducator for e-learning; work on building open education resources (OERs) on how to create OERs. networking on funding proposals developed as free content.

In the mid 1990s we entered what I call the “blended and informal learning” era.  Organizations realized that “e-learning” was not as all-powerful as we once imagined, and the concepts of blended learning began.   Many companies actually “reopened” and “reinvested” in their classroom programs again.  I wrote The Blended Learning Book in 2004 and it continues to be highly relevant today.   As organizations adopted more and more blended learning concepts and the internet became more widely available, we realized that the many of original concepts of e-learning (replacing instructor led training) were incorrect:  what we really needed to do was create a “new” learning experience on the web, one which included both formal (structured) programs as well as a wide variety of informal (unstructured) forms of content.  

Google, of course, forced this evolution upon us.  Employees and young workers, used to “googling” any problem they wanted to solve, no longer wanted to sit through long, formal online programs unless they were very entertaining.  Today, in fact, according to Basex research published in May of this year, 28% of all employee work is wasted by people multi-tasking between email, google, and various other forms of “informal learning.”  The same research also found that the average employee visits 45 websites every day!

The European Union declared 2009, European Year of Creativity and Innovation.

The European Year of Creativity and Innovation has the objective to raise awareness of the importance of creativity and innovation for personal, social and economic development, to disseminate good practices, stimulate education and research, and promote policy debate and development.

The key features of the primary curriculum put forward by this Review are: Recognising the continuing importance of subjects and the essential knowledge, skills and understanding they represent. Providing a stronger focus on curriculum progression. Strengthening the focus on ensuring, that by the age of seven, children have a secure grasp of the literacy and numeracy skills they need to make good progress thereafter.  Strengthening the teaching and learning of ICT to enable them to be independent and confident users of technology by the end of primary education. Providing a greater emphasis on personal development through a more integrated and simpler framework for schools.  Building stronger links between the Early Years Foundation Stage and Key Stage 1, and between Key Stage 2 and Key Stage 3. in offering exciting opportunities for learning languages for 7-11 year olds.

在《会唱歌的积木》中，我们分享了来自TED.com原始网页上wylie jones的评论。wylie jones说TED不但可以是 technology, entertainment, design（科技、娱乐与设计），还可以是teaching, encouraging, developing（教育、鼓励与发展），或 talent, energy, daring（才智、能量与胆识），或 thinking, enlightening, discovering（思考、启发与发现）。

Chief among our insights was that "the network as platform" means far more than just offering old applications via the network ("software as a service"); it means building applications that literally get better the more people use them, harnessing network effects not only to acquire users, but also to learn from them and build on their contributions.

building applications that literally get better the more people use them

Data is the "Intel Inside" of the next generation of computer applications.