Bookmarks 09-May-2010
“Poor neighborhoods around the world embrace a surprising idea: incredibly low-priced private schools.”
“Poor neighborhoods around the world embrace a surprising idea: incredibly low-priced private schools.”
Richard Katz asks, “Is the modern college or university, for example, centrally important as a storehouse of knowledge? As a purveyor of expertise? As a cultural arbiter?”
Only one bookmark in today’s offering, but what range it considers.
1. Is higher education capable of addressing the considerable challenges that face the world today?
Today’s offering includes the following topics:
1. The unbundling of higher education.
2. The bundling of the commons, justice, and learning.
3. A realistic portrayal of open data.
What do Big Data and higher education have in common?
Three recent documents offer images of education in the future. I tried that once and concluded it’s better to build the future than anticipate it. Each of the three documents suffers similarly, but they are still well worth reading if the future of learning concerns you.
Today’s theme is one of design. Is there a way to use data analysis and visualization to engage people enough that they follow their curiosity into exploration of complex issues?
Recent bookmarks:
1. Contextual clothing for naked transparency
2. Brazil’s new Latin American and global integration universities launched
3. You Can Get There From Here: Websites for Learners
4. Drumbeat idea: open web skills @ p2pu
Recent bookmarks of 3 items:
1. That Old College Lie
2. What the Google Web will look like in 10 years
3. Taking Aim at the Supply Side
Items included:
1: What Beautiful HTML Code Looks Like
2: The $10 Phone Bill
3: East Asia Summit Calls for the Revival of Nalanda University: thinking and acting beyond the nation?