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To succeed as a planet in the 21st century, a strong education for every human being isn't just important, it is essential. An open letter to educators from a college dropout who says his schooling interfered with his education. 

The 2011 Global Education Conference will be held November 14 - 18, online and free. Sessions will take place in multiple time zones and multiple languages over the five days. The 2010 Global Education Conference had 15,028 unique logins and presentations from 62 countries.

What does the future of education look like? One where the student play an active role in their education through an interactive, personalized, and continuous learning experience.

Our blog posts, articles, presentations, workshops, and consulting focus on helping educators weave curriculum, pedagogy, and technology into engaging and rigorous learning.

College students think of information seeking as a rote process and tend to use the same small set of information resources no matter their question. Information literacy is essential for lifelong learning and empowers individuals and societies. Our educational system should expose students to information literacy from elementary school through postsecondary education so that it is a habit of mind they can call upon throughout their lives. Collaborative efforts between faculty, librarians, technology professionals, and others can develop students who graduate with information literacy competency.

The latest partnership to offer free massively open online courses (MOOCs). Good article outlining the history of such initiatives.

The latest partnership to offer free massively open online courses (MOOCs). Good article outlining the history of such initiatives. 

16-year-old student Nikhil Goyal calls for educational reform and is writing a book on the subject. 

The CECER-DLL project is a cooperative agreement awarded to the FPG Child Development Institute of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The initiative targets children who are dual language learners (birth-age 5) and their families across settings such as: early care and education center-based programs, home-based and family child care providers, and Head Start and Early Head Start Programs.

The Big Ideas School 

"There's been an on-going industrial-institutional complex at play here for at least the past 30 years that has ensured the continued irrelevance of technology to learning"

Expanding the Definition of a Flipped Learning Environment