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9 марта 2010
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We’ve just delivered 744 XOs (already in Dari and Pashto) to Zarghona Ana middle school in Kandahar, Afghanistan, making Afghanistan’s national total of XOs exceed 3,700. This project has been brought together by Afghanistan’s Ministry of Education and brings together OLPC; USAID/Afghanistan Small and Medium Enterprise Development (ASMED); the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology; Roshan, Afghanistan’s leading telecommunications provider; and PAIWASTOON, a local private IT company. Read below for the full press release.
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28 февраля 2010
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Colleges and universities today manifest a paradoxical combination of remarkable success and abject failure. Vast resources and extensive funding for research have made our system of higher education the envy of the worldÂbut its extraordinarily ideological homogeneity corrupts its contribution to American society. In their relentless liberalism, not only do our institutions of higher education fail to train liberal leaders capable of governing a pluralistic nation, the intolerance they foster stokes the fires of the culture wars.
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26 февраля 2010
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Fred Bonner has two job titles at Texas A&M. He is both a professor of higher education and holds a university-level administrative position as associate dean of faculties.
But being a teacher and an administrator, along with conducting research and speaking around the country, isn’t enough forBonner. He also travels to other colleges recruiting students for graduate programs at A&M as well as taking A&M students to other colleges they are interested in attending.
15 февраля 2010
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Last Friday at the Paley Center in NYC, at the Carnegie Journalism Educators Summit , I spoke on a panel on entrepreneurial journalism. Among the main points brought up were the skills that needed to be taught to j-students these days changes in the way the courses are structured at these schools and the future of entrepreneurship in media, especially news business.
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13 февраля 2010
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Today in History - February 13, 1959 - the first Barbie doll goes on sale. Barbie’s inventor, Ruth Handler, was inspired by seeing that her daughter, Barbie, and her girl friends enjoyed playing with adult female dolls, but most dolls at the time were baby dolls. Handler created 3D models of dolls that she thought would inspire her daughter’s dreams and took them to the ad executives at Mattel, Inc. Although Mattel was founded by Ruth Handler and her husband, Elliot, some years earlier in their garage, the “all male” committee rejected the idea as too expensive and without enough appeal in the market. Determined not to give up on the idea, Ruth Handler continued to further develop her product and went to Europe to gain fashion ideas and market her concept. Mattel soon appreciated the potential impact of this concept and changed their mind, debuting Barbie at the American Toy Fair in New York City in 1959. This new doll concept immediately set new sales records for Mattel ( 351,000 dolls is reported for the first year; sold at $3 each ).
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13 февраля 2010
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Stanford Technology Ventures Program’s Executive Director Tina Seelig shares rich insights in creative thinking and the entrepreneurial mindset. Her talk, based on her 2009 book,What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20, cites numerous classroom successes of applied problem-solving and the lessons of failure.
28 января 2010
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Administration officials said they could not provide a direct comparison to current elementary and secondary education spending levels, but they said federal education spending would rise overall by 6.2 percent. That would apparently be the largest percentage increase since 2003, not counting the huge infusion from last year’s economic stimulus law.
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21 января 2010
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Primary Research has published (fee-based) a new report, The Survey of Higher Education Faculty: Evaluation of Library Efforts to Index, Preserve and Catalog Blogs, Websites, Email Archives and Other Cyber Resources.
…presents data on how higher education faculty in the United States and Canada view the usefulness and quality of academic library efforts to further scholarship based on internet sources such as websites, blogs, listervs, social networking sites, online ads and other internet resources. The report presents highly detailed data on how faculty use blogs, websites, social networking sites, email archives, listservs, webcasts and podcasts, ezines, online ads and other cyber resources in scholarship. It also highlights how faculty rate the efforts of academic libraries to index, preserve and catalog these resources. In addition, the report discusses other pertinent trends, such as the degree of use of web archiving software.
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19 января 2010
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A new research study suggests the ability to predict future melodies in a piece of music — after the music has been disconnected — demonstrates a unique way in which the brain operates.
Scientists now predict that these expectations should be different for people with different musical experience. An article in the journal NeuroImage explains the brain mechanisms involved.
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13 января 2010
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Last week I wrote about Framing Curricula for Open Education . In the past few years it has become common to describe curricula in terms of outcomes, rather than the more traditional learning objectives. On the face if it, this makes sense. Whilst learning objectives might be said to describe the teaching and learning environment from the viewpoint of a teacher, outcomes describe what a student or leaner can achieve following a programme.
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