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New company Coursera is targeting higher education by offering university-level courses from top institutions to students all over the world, all for free. via @niptechpodcast

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@jobsworth's blog (JP Rangaswami) discovered at #Lift12

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For over a decade I have taught an introductory, undergraduate class, "Einstein for Everyone," at the University of Pittsburgh to anyone interested enough to walk through door. The course is aimed at people who have a strong sense that what Einstein did changed everything. However they do not know enough physics to understand what he did and why it was so important. The course presents just enough of Einstein's physics to give students an independent sense of what he achieved and what he did not achieve. The latter is almost as important as the former. For almost everyone with some foundational axe to grind finds a way to argue that what Einstein did vindicates their view. They certainly cannot all be right. Some independent understanding of Einstein's physics is needed to separate the real insights from the never-ending hogwash that seems to rain down on us all. (...)
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“If someone else controls your time and your actions, then you are not developing as an authentic person, as an authentic learner. And if you watch children over a period of time here, they do make choices that are really good for them at the time.”

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Sir Ken Robinson (born Liverpool, 4 March 1950) is an author, speaker and international advisor on education in the arts to government, non-profits, education and arts bodies. He was Director of The Arts in Schools Project (1985-89), Professor of Arts Edu

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another of wikimedia's amazing projects: collaborative learning resources anyone can edit

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5000 years of empires in 90 secs... Via Open Culture

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Open access to 607,744 e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance and Statistics

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Free online academic resources. via openculture

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Brilliant, as always!

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Panfu is a friendly, virtual online world where kids can play games, learn Spanish and make new friends.
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Established inverse correlation between the level of education and the propensity to click through ads. Love the disclosure ;)

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