Mark Zuckerberg Thrills the #NSVFSummit Crowd in San Francisco
For those of you who were not at the #NSVFSummit and don’t want to sift through all of the tweets to find out what Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook said about education philanthropy, I’ve made a...
View ArticleWelcome to the Hurt Locker at #NSVFSummit
John White, John Deasy and Richard Barth talk about integrity and “showing up” to education with credibility in the new education system. Here is a Twitter broadsheet of tweets about the conversation...
View ArticleGaming: Serious Educators Should Look Into This
Gaming has become a very important subject in the field of online learning and classroom learning. If you are a serious educator, you should check out the gaming blog at StackOverflow. I am adding it...
View ArticleSocial Media in Education Manifesto: Truth, Quality, Integrity
I’d like to get a few things off my chest, and they involve social media marketing and community management. Here are some things that I believe form the core of social media marketing and community...
View ArticleBest #Education Apps of 2011
What I enjoyed about this list of best education applications in 2011 is that there are so many apps in this list that are not directly marketed as education apps. It speaks to my belief that many of...
View ArticleStart Challenging “Fact” That Black People Can’t Benefit from Online Learning
I found a surprising bit of information in a Venture Beat story about the rise of online video sharing, with a quote from Pew’s Lee Rainie. I have always argued that urban blacks (forgive my use of...
View ArticleVirtual Goods Slip Into #Education Field
If you are building a virtual education or online education play, you probably worry about relevancy. You have to fight against two camps of thought: people who think that virtual education or gaming...
View ArticlePipeline Fellowship Apps for Women Angel Investors Start Inaugural Boston Effort
written by A. Lauren Abele The Pipeline Fellowship announces a call for applications in New York, NY and—for the first time—Boston, MA. The Pipeline Fellowship seeks to increase the number of women...
View ArticleBig Think Launches Online University
Ideas web site Big Think today launched an attempt at an online university. The e-learning platform is shot at trying to aggregate the world’s best thinkers and innovators on one platform to make...
View ArticleComment Ranking System Will Play Crucial Role in Web-Based Curriculum
I am pretty sure that deploying a comment ranking system in blogs will have some strong function in a web-based learning world. I made a comment about it at Fred Wilson’s blog, and I think that it...
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