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"Young people are going to bad universities to study subjects no employers want. This tragedy is our fault "

"Purdue University's Course Signals application detects early warning signs and provides intervention to students who may not be performing to the best of their abilities before they reach a critical point."

"Clay Shirky: How cognitive surplus will change the world" in short: the theory, which says that due to a massive increase in leisure time that is facilitated by ascending prosperity, people have a "cognitive surplus" at their disposal. until recently, it has mostly been used as a means to watch tv, but it should be employed differently.

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Background Learning today happens everywhere But it's often difficult to get recognition for skills and achievements gained outside of school. Mozilla's Open Badges project is working to solve that problem, making it easy for any organization or learning community to issue, earn and display badges across the web. +++

Helix, a new tool that seeks to reinvent what learning-management software can do. It's a "learning environment" that uses personalized narratives to engage students and explain why learning is important. It's driven by a data-hungry brain, which helps the platform evolve as students use it. As part-technology company and part-educational institution, they can do things-like letting students adjust their semester schedules based on their learning goals.

Survey about Online Education in the USA ("leading barometer ") -nearly one third of students in higher education take at least one online course ( 6 Million) -wide variety in rate of growth of online programs in different universities and programs (for example: health science online programs are more developed than many other disciplines) -The 10% growth rate for online enrollments far exceeds 2% growth in the overall higher education student population -Academic leaders believe that the level of student satisfaction is equivalent for online and face-to-face courses -65% of universities think that online education is critical part of future plans there still exists a consistent minority of academic leaders that doubt the quality of online courses in contrast to face-to-face courses

"Available now: a guide to using Twitter in university research, teaching, and impact activities"

Sanjit "Bunker" Roy is the founder of Barefoot College, which helps rural communities becomes self-sufficient. Why you should listen to him: Development projects the world over run into one crucial point: For a project to live on, it needs to be organic, owned and sustained by those it serves.

Global Colloquium of the UNESCO Forum on Higher Education, Research & Knowledge. De-westernising Research Methodologies: Alternative Approaches to Research for Higher Education Curricula in Developing Countries. +++

Alt-Ed is devoted to documenting significant initiatives relating to Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), digital badges, and similar alternative educational initiatives.

The Sloan Consortium (Sloan-C) is an institutional and professional leadership organization dedicated to integrating online education into mainstream higher education, helping educators improve the quality, scale, and breadth of their online programs so that education will become accessible and affordable for anyone in a wide variety of disciplines. http://twitter.com/SloanConsortium

This program offers an hour and a half of video content divided into Primary and Extra video segments. The Primary videos are offered to the left and the Extra videos are available once a Primary segment is selected

seti home is a scientific experiment which is dedicated to the search for alien intelligence .. "SETI@home ist ein wissenschaftliches Experiment, welches mit dem Internet verbundene Computer für die Suche nach außerirdischer Intelligenz einsetzt. Sie können daran teilnehmen, indem Sie ein kostenloses Programm installieren, das Radioteleskopdaten herunterlädt und analysiert. "

The Khan Academy is a not-for-profit with the mission of providing a world-class education to anyone, anywhere.