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10 Power Tools for Lifelong Learners | Open Culture
"Every now and then, we like to remind readers of the audio/video resources that Open Culture makes available to lifelong learners. These collections are all free, and can be downloaded to your computers and mp3 players. When you add it all together, you will find thousands of hours of free educational content here from quality sources. If you have a chance, please"
Minds on Fire: Open Education, the Long Tail, and Learning 2.0 (EDUCAUSE Review) | EDUCAUSE
"The world has become increasingly “flat,” as Tom Friedman has shown. Thanks to massive improvements in communications and transportation, virtually any place on earth can be connected to markets anywhere else on earth and can become globally competitive.1 But at the same time that the world has become flatter, it has also become “spikier”: the places that are globally competitive are those that have robust local ecosystems of resources supporting innovation and productiveness.2 A key part of any such ecosystem is a well-educated workforce with the requisite competitive skills. And in a rapidly changing world, these ecosystems must not only supply this workforce but also provide support for continuous learning and for the ongoing creation of new ideas and skills. "
Educational Networking - home
"Educational Networking" is the use of social networking technologies for educational purposes.
Brave New Classroom 2.0 (New Blog Forum) | Britannica Blog
"Students at every level, from grade school to grad school, face dramatic changes in the institutions they attend thanks to new digital technologies. PCs, the Internet, whiteboards, presentation software, and other high-tech devices, once considered educational aides for the library, the media lab, and the home, are increasingly a central part of the classroom curriculum itself, with results that have yet to be fully understood."
VideoLectures - exchange ideas & share knowledge
The main purpose of the project VideoLectures.Net is to provide free and open access of a high quality video lectures presented by distinguished scholars and scientists at the most important and prominent events like conferences, summer schools, workshops and science promotional events from many fields of Science. The portal is aimed at promoting science, exchanging ideas and fostering knowledge sharing by providing high quality didactic contents not only to a scientific community but also to a general public. All lectures, accompanying documents, information and links are systematically selected and classified through the editorial process taking into account also users' comments.
Harvard Kennedy School - Social Media, Blogs and RSS
HKS maintains a social media presence on several popular sites, and also hosts some multimedia content (like blogs, RSS feeds, and slideshows).
Directory of open access journals
Welcome to the Directory of Open Access Journals. This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. We aim to cover all subjects and languages. There are now 4366 journals in the directory. Currently 1666 journals are searchable at article level. As of today 316203 articles are included in the DOAJ service.
50 Must-Listen-to Lectures for Tech Lovers | Online Universities.com
As an online student and tech lover, you're probably aware that there are lots of educational resources available to you online. But did you know that you can find excellent lectures from universities online? It's true-and we've highlighted 50 of the most important lectures for tech lovers to check out.
100 Must-Read Blog Posts on the Future of Learning | Online School
With a struggling economy and a president with a keen eye on education, it will be interesting to see what happens to the future of learning with such opposing forces. Plenty of experts and lay-people alike have kicked around their ideas through their blogs. This collection offers 100 of these blog posts speculating on the future of learning.
Stanford study: Media multitaskers pay mental price
Think you can talk on the phone, send an instant message and read your e-mail all at once? Stanford researchers say even trying may impair your cognitive control.
UNESCO Institute for Statistics: UNESCO Institute for Statistics (3.14)
The UNESCO Institute for Statistics is the statistical branch of the United Nations Organization for Education, Science and Culture (UNESCO). It was established in July 1999 in order to reform UNESCO's statistical capacities.\nThe Institute aims to: 1. gat
International Society for Technology in Education ISTE | Home
Home of the National Educational Technology Standards (NETS), the Center for Applied Research in Educational Technology (CARET), and the National Educational Computing Conference (NECC), ISTE represents more than 85,000 professionals worldwide. We support
Exploratree - Exploratree by FutureLab
Exploratree is a free web resource where you can access a library of ready-made interactive thinking guides, print them, edit them or make your own. You can share them and work on them in groups too.\nThe Exploratree web resource has been developed by Futu
e-skills UK
e-skills UK's mission is to ensure the UK has the skills for Digital Britain. We work on behalf of employers to ensure the UK has the technology skills it needs to succeed in a global digital economy. e-skills UK brings together employers, educators and G
Institute of Play
We promote GAMING LITERACY: the play, analysis, and creation of games, as a foundation for learning, innovation, and change in the 21st century. Through a variety of programs centered on game design, the Institute engages audiences of all ages, exploring
Exploratorium: the museum of science, art and human perception
Online since 1993, the Exploratorium was one of the first science museums to build a site on the World Wide Web. Our site now contains over 18 thousand award-winning Web pages exploring hundreds of different topics. We currently serve 20 million visitors
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