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Big Data, Global Development, and Complex Social SystemsNathan Eagle, Omidyar Fellow at the Santa Fe Institute, infers behavioral dynamics on a broad spectrum of scales using technology; from risky behavior in a group of MIT freshman, to cholera outbreaks in Rwanda and wealth in the UK, to disease transmission and slum formations in East Africa. ...
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UNESCO OER Toolkit - A guide for participating in the international open education commonsThe UNESCO OER Toolkit is an initiative of the Information Society Division of UNESCO’s Communication and Information Sector. The drafting of this toolkit was facilitated by Philipp Schmidt of the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. The work was inspired by, and builds on a 2006 ...
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Asian Innovation: China, India and KoreaThe rise of China and India will remake the innovation landscape. US and European pre-eminence in science-based innovation can no longer be taken for granted. Nor can the knowledge jobs that have depended upon it. Global supply chains have transformed how we make products. Our savings depend ...
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Emerging tech Africa - open online courseIntroduction to Emerging Technologies is an open online course delivered in French and English, addressing the concerns and opportunities around the use of technologies for learning in Africa. In early 2009, the African Association of Universities partnered with University of Manitoba to ...
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Groups Vs Networks: The Class Struggle Continues ~ Stephen DownesBut more or less, a group is a collection of entities or members according to their nature or their feature or their properties or whatever, their essential nature, maybe, their accidental nature, maybe, whatever, but according to their nature. What defines a group is the quality the members ...
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Center For Community Informatics Research, Development & TrainingThe Center undertakes research, development and training in support of the range of Community Informatics initiatives undertaken both in Canada, South Africa and elsewhere internationally. The Center works with communities, ICT practitioners, researchers, governments and agencies as a resource ...
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25 Incredible TED Talks for EducatorsA non-profit dedicated to bringing "Ideas Worth Sharing" to the world, TED offers some of the best and brightest sharing their perspectives on technology, entertainment, and design. Many of those who speak at TED discuss topics relevant to education. The following talks include thoughts on ...
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Educators Flocking to Finland, Land of Literate ChildrenImagine an educational system where children do not start school until they are 7, where spending is a paltry $5,000 a year per student, where there are no gifted programs and class sizes often approach 30. A prescription for failure, no doubt, in the eyes of many experts, but in this case a ...
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OER Africa - open education resource within AfricaOER Africa has been established in the belief that Open Educational Resources (OER) have a tremendously powerful positive role to play in developing and capacitating higher education systems and institutions across Africa. The project has been set up to ensure that the power of OER is harnessed ...
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Deschooling Society - Ivan IllichMany students, especially those who are poor, intuitively know what the schools do for them. They school them to confuse process and substance. Once these become blurred, a new logic is assumed: the more treatment there is, the better are the results; or, escalation leads to success. The pupil ...
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