domingo, 15 de mayo de 2011

The E-learning Daily Domingo, May. 15, 2011



SFERnational
NewSchools Venture Fund and Students for Education Reform (SFER) invite you to enter SFER’s National Essay Competition – “Public education is broken: How will you fix it?” NewSchools Venture Fund, ...
 studentsforedr...
Educación

thehrgoddess
Posted on May 13, 2011 by Get Your Leadership BIG On!Ah, ’tis Friday the 13th  and time for this week’s leadership favorites. Happy reading, and remember to use your head to manage and your heart t...
 getyourleaders...
Gente

ashleydburleson
Co-authored by 16-year-old Leah Miller and Lisa Nielsen"As a school principal I have one job and that is to expose kids to a whole lot of different things and help them to get their light bulb to...
 theinnovativee...

marciamarcia
Late in 2007, Ayah Bdeir was working in a plush office in Midtown Manhattan, making a lot of money and feeling miserable. She was a financial-software consultant for a technology company. One of he...
 nytimes.com

rjacquez
We’re not entirely sure if they sent the tablet over to Jenny Craig or Weightwatchers, but it looks like it worked. At last month’s MWC, Samsung was showing off one version of its 10.1-inch Galaxy ...
 mobilemag.com

sharonlflynn
BERLIN - Germany's Silvana Koch-Mehrin stepped down as vice president of the European Parliament on Wednesday, becoming the second prominent politician to have fallen victim to accusations of plagi...
 vancouversun.com
Política

ToddAHoffman
A study lead by Louis Deslauriers, a post-doctoral researcher at UBC's Carl Wieman Science Education Initiative (CWSEI) has found that "interactive teaching methods significantly improved attendanc...
 educationandte...
Educación

Mary_Hutchison
Our weekly podcasts offer a unique insight into a variety of higher education topics and issues, as we interview a range of people internal and external to QAA. Keep up to date with the latest deve...
 qaa.ac.uk
Educación

hopkinsdavid
Speculation continues to swirl around the next iPhone, and now an analyst claims he has new information about the highly anticipated smartphone from Apple.It will be called “iPhone 4S” when it’s re...
 mashable.com
Tecnología

cpappas
You could have knocked me over with a feather when I received the email from Mike Laflin, CEO of SportsCal, inviting me to speak on the Experts Panel at the 20 Years of Sport event in London.  I fe...
 socialmediatod...
Gente

hopkinsdavid
12 May 2011 Academics have been accused of failing to make use of new technology to improve research because they are "selfish" and bogged down in the peer review system.Speaking at a British Libra...
 timeshigheredu...
Educación

hopkinsdavid
Home News UK Bosses Ban Facebook At Work Posted by Devina Divecha on Sun 15 May 2011 How connected to Facebook and Twitter are you? Almost half of UK firms (48%) have banned their employees from ac...
 t3.com
Negocios

Mary_Hutchison
Spring semester at my institution is the time for student appraisals of teaching, those infamous forms that elicit sighs from young and old alike. I must confess that I did not take those evaluatio...
 chronicle.com
Educación

hopkinsdavid
Computerworld - Everyone wants what Microsoft's got, namely control of the most widely used computing platform. Or, more accurately, everyone wants the billions and billions of dollars that flow in...
 m.computerworl...
Tecnología

schoolsEDU
by Loreal Lynch | May 12, 2011 The current one-size-fits-all U.S. education system is failing to prepare millions of young adults for career success. That's the conclusion of a recently-published s...
 schools.com
Educación

schoolsEDU
Washington College today named five finalists for the $61,000 Sophie Kerr Prize, possibly the largest cash award to any college undergraduate in the nation. It’s a literary prize, named for an Amer...
 washingtonpost...
Cultura y Espectáculos

ashleydburleson
In September, 2008, a company named Dropbox opened for business, marketing a simple innovation: it allowed you to upload your files, via an intuitive drag-and-drop method, to remote servers, and to...
 newyorker.com
Negocios

ashleydburleson
The Merriam-Webster’s dictionary defines complacency as “self-satisfaction especially when accompanied by unawareness of actual dangers or deficiencies.” More importantly,  it is a critical blind s...
 ryanbretag.com
Gente

ashleydburleson
Social media fluff. That is something we hear over and over again. In an effort to remove some of that fluff and bring you meaty social media tips, we collaborated in a webinar with oneforty and Ba...
 blog.hubspot.com
Gente

Social_LMS
Founded in 1995, Interactyx Limited (www.interactyx.com) is a global eLearning software company providing engaging and collaborative learning experiences to learners whenever and wherever they want...
 linkedin.com
Educación