From DSC:
I appreciate Kevin Wheeler’s comment on Jay Cross’ posting entitled “A Solution to the College Crisis” (emphasis below from DSC)
In response to Jay Cross:
…Higher education in the United States is broken. Costs are ouf of control.
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Loading...PayWizard launches first dedicated payment and subscriber management solution for TV and media industry — from PayWizard
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London, 21 February 2013 – PayWizard, specialists in payment and subscription management, has launched the TV and media industry’s first dedicated, end to end payment and subscription solution.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Expert panel brings clarity to MOOCs in Business+MOOCs Hangout — fron onlinelearninginsights.wordpress.com
The Business+MOOC Panel
Host: Jay Cross
Educators: Dave Cormier, Stephen Downes, Terri Griffith and George Siemens
Business People: Jos Arets, Bert De Coutere, Lal Jones-Beyy (from Coursera) Mark Finnern, Jerry Michalski
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(No Ratings Yet)Loading...MOOCs and online learning: An interview with Jack Welch – from edudemic.com by Paul Glader
Excerpt:
WA – What do you think of this trend in Massive Open Online Courses, or MOOCs? Where is it going?
JW – Tom Friedman talked about it a few weeks ago (in the New York Times).
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Apple University hires another high-profile academic – from by Philip Elmer-DeWitt
Berkeley’s Morten Hansen, co-author of Jim Collins’ latest bestseller, joined in January
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FORTUNE — Apple University has always been something of a stealth operation. It was created as a kind of in-house MBA program by Steve Jobs, a self-taught business leader who made no secret of his distaste for conventional MBAs.…
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First, what prompted the questions and reflections that are listed below? For that, I turn to some recent items that I ran across involving the use of robotics and whether that may or may not be affecting employment:
The work of Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee; for example their book Race Against the Machine
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But digital innovation has also changed how the economic pie is distributed, and here the news is not good for the median worker.…
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As a team of us have been charged with putting together a new collaborative workspace/conference room, I’ve been thinking about some ideas for a new type of interface as well as some new types of Human Computer Interaction (HCI) to be used in group collaboration/web-based collaboration. …
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