Google Khan Academy Libraries MOOC 
Edsurge
MAY 14, 2017
If imitation is the highest form of flattery, Salman Khan should feel honored. Since he introduced Khan Academy in 2006, the free, open-access education platform has inspired several knock-offs focused on specific disciplines. There are a growing number of students who use Google and YouTube to study instead of buying textbooks.
EdTechSandyK
APRIL 8, 2014
edX - www.edex.org - MOOC site, courses are all free, people who teach the courses are from Harvard, MIT, Berkeley, University of Texas, etc. Coursera is another option for higher ed MOOCS. High school library prediction - Librarians will become resources to help students find online courses. Here is November''s Diigo library.
This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.
TeachThought - Learn better.
FEBRUARY 11, 2015
Khan Academy. Google Earth. If we’re re-envisioning libraries for a modern society, for example, should we start with the library as it exists and iterate it forward, adding computers and eBook checkout and so on and maybe put a 3D printer at the entrance when you first walk in to give the glow of technology?
Hack Education
NOVEMBER 29, 2017
Then there was the infamous anti-diversity memo distributed by Google engineer James Damore and leaked to the press this summer that charged that efforts the company (and the industry more broadly) had taken to address diversity were misguided as women are biologically ill-suited to computer science – which is, of course, totally b t.
Hack Education
AUGUST 11, 2017
” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via Edsurge : “ Andrew Ng , Co-Founder of Coursera , Returns to MOOC Teaching With New AI Course.” ” The Google Memo. Jen Howard on “What Happened to Google’s Effort to Scan Millions of University Library Books ?”
Hack Education
NOVEMBER 24, 2017
” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” The University of Iceland has joined edX. ” Education Dive profiles Khan Academy’s Khan Lab School. (It It will be interesting to compare the success or failure of Khan Lab School with the failure of AltSchool.
Hack Education
JUNE 23, 2017
Google ’s chairman Eric Schmidt praises Trump. A New York district court awarded Elsevier US$15 million in damages for copyright infringement by Sci-Hub , the Library of Genesis (LibGen) project and related sites.” ” Via The Verge : “ Google Glass gets its first update in nearly three years.”
Expert insights. Personalized for you.
65 
Let's personalize your content