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TeachPaperless: 21st Century Skills: My Personal Mission Statement - 0 views

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shared by Barbara Lindsey on 01 Jun 09 - Cached
  • Barbara Lindsey on 01 Jun 09
     
    Lots of educationally applied twitter links
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Shape Collage - Free Automatic Photo Collage Maker - 0 views

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shared by Barbara Lindsey on 29 May 09 - Cached
  • Barbara Lindsey on 29 May 09
     
    Scott Bourne MacBreak Weekly (episode 129) pick of the week.
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Academic Evolution: Scholarly Mobile Computing: ArXiv hits the iPhone - 0 views

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  • Barbara Lindsey on 27 May 09
     
    Thanks to wakingtiger via Twitter
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UN announces launch of world's first tuition-free, online university - 0 views

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  • Mr. Reshef said that this University opened the gate to these people to continue their studies from home and at minimal cost by using open-source technology, open course materials, e-learning methods and peer-to-peer teaching.
  • As part of this year’s focus on education, the UN Global Alliance for Information and Communication Technology and Development (GAID) presented the newly formed University of the People, a non-profit institution offering higher education to the masses.
  • Students will be placed in classes of 20, after which they can log on to a weekly lecture, discuss its themes with their peers and take a test all online. There are voluntary professors, post-graduate students and students in other classes who can also offer advice and consultation.
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  • The only charge to students is a $15 to $50 admission fee, depending on their country of origin, and a processing fee for every test ranging from $10 to $100. For the University to sustain its operation, it needs 15,000 students and $6 million, of which Mr. Reshef has donated $1 million of his own money.
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