Here are the links of interest for this week – enjoy!
Evan’s guest post on ProfHacker! – About this post, Evan says: A few years ago, I used podcasts in a few of my classes. It turned out the technology was the least of my problems…
UVA and 11 Others Become Latest to Plan MOOCs – UVA was already involved in negotiations with Coursera when the Board fired the president for having a “pedestrian” attitude toward distance learning. The pace of Coursera is mind-boggling.
20th Anniversary: Images on the Web – Some beginnings are just not that impressive… the first image on the web was posted only 20 years ago. The subject was an all-female parody group called “Les Horrible Cernettes,” appropriately enough from CERN. From obscure music to the “God Particle” in 20 years…
Five Key TED Talks – The New Yorker‘s list of five important TED Talks; the last one is particularly interesting, about the relationship between our education system and creativity.
About Kim Mann