Education



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The Global, Virtual/Digital, Open, Free, {potentially Degree- and Credit-Granting},

Multilingual University & School

where anyone can teach or take a class or course


 * Add or take a free, open Education course.

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Ideas
What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook. (Henry David Thoreau - Undated entry) (http://hdt.typepad.com/henrys_blog/2010/11/november-3-1850.html)

Select Books
Acuña, Rodolfo. 1970. Occupied America: the Chicano's struggle toward liberation. Canfield Press.

Bok, Derek. 2003. Universities in the Marketplace: The Commercialization of Higher Education. Princeton, NJ: Princeton Unviersity Press.

Freire, Paulo, and Myra Bergman Ramos (trans.). 1970. The Pedagogy of the Oppressed. New York, NY: Continuum International.

Illich, Ivan 1971. Deschooling Society. Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin.

Illich, Ivan 1973. Tools for Conviviality. (http://www.scytheconnection.com/adp/convivNote.html). New York, NY: Harper and Row.

Select Libraries
(See also editable World University and School's Library Resources page: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Library_Resources).

Select References
Brown, Jerry. 2010. State of California's Education Platform. Oakland, CA: jerrybrown.org

Committee on Prospering in the Global Economy of the 21st Century: An Agenda for American Science and Technology. 2007. Rising Above the Gathering Storm: Energizing and Employing America for a Brighter Economic Future. Washington DC: The National Academies Press.

Friedman, Tom. 2010. Steal this Movie, Too. August 24. New York, NY: The New York Times.

Friedman, Tom. 2010. We’re No. 1(1)!. September 11. New York, NY: The New York Times.

Guttenplan, D.D. 2010. For Exposure, Universities Put Courses on the Web. November 1. New York, NY: The New York Times.

Harvard Gazette. 2010. Like-minded: Reform advocates Rhee, Bush, Podesta talk politics of education. November 18. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Gazette.

Harvard Gazette. 2011. Record applications to Harvard College: Nearly 35,000 seek admission to Class of '15. January 14. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Gazette.

Hofstadter, Richard. 1966. Anti-Intellectualism in American Life. New York, NY: Vintage Press.

Jacobs, Andrew. 2010. China’s Army of Graduates Is Struggling. December 11. New York, NY: The New York Times.

Lacey, Marc. 2011. Rift in Arizona as Latino Class Is Found Illegal. January 7. New York, NY: The New York Times.

Lifshits, Yury. 2011. 100+ Online Resources That Are Transforming Education. January 7. Mashable.com

Mankiw, Greg. 2010. A Course Load for the Game of Life. September 4. New York, NY: The New York Times.

McKinsey Quarterly. 2010. Why top students don’t want to teach. December. mckinseyquarterly.com/newsletters/chartfocus

McKinsey Quarterly. 2010. Closing the talent gap: Attracting and retaining top third graduates to a career in teaching--full report. September.

McKinsey Quarterly. 2010. Closing the talent gap: Attracting and retaining top third graduates to a career in teaching--47-page appendix including charts on U.S. and international systems. September.

Ramirez, Gerardo and Sian L. Beilock. 2011. Writing About Testing Worries Boosts Exam Performance in the Classroom. 14 January Vol. 331 no. 6014 pp. 211-213. Science.

Richtel, Matt. 2010. Growing Up Digital, Wired For Distraction. November 21. New York, NY: The New York Times.

Rising Above the Gathering Storm Committee. 2010. Rising Above the Gathering Storm Revisited: Rapidly Approaching Category 5. Washington DC: The National Academies Press.

Wall, Mike. 2010. Far-flung movies may inspire future scientists: Movies can influence young people with open, malleable minds. December 28. msnbc.msn.com.

Young, T.R. 1998. Interactively Rich and Informationally Diverse Techniques. The Red Feather Institute.

Grades

Lewin, Tamar. 2010. A Quest to Explain What Grades Really Mean. New York, NY: The New York Times.

Lewis, Harry. 2010. Can Grades Be Controlled in a "Fair" Way?. (Former Dean of Harvard College). December 26. Cambridge, MA: harry-lewis.blogspot.com

Lewis, Harry. 2003. October 30, 2003: Grades. October 30. Cambridge, MA: people.seas.harvard.edu

Select Video and Audio
Nesson, Charles, and David Weinberger (interviewer). 2010. The University in Cyberspace. Cambridge, MA: MediaBerkman.

Spitzer, Manfred. 2010. Mediathek: Prof. Dr. Dr. Manfred Spitzer in Oldenburg. Oldenburg, Germany: OldenburgEins

Select Websites
MIT> 2011. MIT + 150.

World University and School Links
Educational Software: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Educational_Software

One Laptop per Child: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/One_Laptop_per_Child_-_XO_Laptop_-_$100_Laptop_-_MIT

Theories of Learning subject: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Theories_of_Learning

Calendar (Schedule what you'd like to teach)
Join the World University and School Google Group to add to its wiki-like calendar to teach an open, free class or course, converse about ideas, and jam (e.g. musically or theater improvisation): http://groups.google.com/group/World-University-and-School.

Digital To Do
Broadcast to radio frequency

Create EMail group for page

Digital Text to Audio file format (Browse Aloud / Read Aloud?)

Print

Recommend

Send to phone

Translate

Videophone

In Google Earth
Google Earth.

In Virtual World
Second Life, or other virtual world or space, Uniform Resource Locator (URL) for classes? Check out Harvard's virtual island in Second Life: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Berkman/115/53/25 and teach, learn and share ideas - in voice or in type chat.

Travel to this virtual island to learn building in Second Life:

Social Bookmarking
Teach and Learn using free Social Bookmarking software to identify what courses, etc. you find edifying.

Delicious - http://delicious.com/

Digg - http://digg.com/

Facebook

Google Buzz

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Twitter

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TV-Live Broadcasting
Broadcast to television

Teach and learn using free TV-Live Broadcasting software to the web:

Livestream TV - http://www.livestream.com

Justin TV - http://www.justin.tv

Ustream TV - http://ustream.tv

Video Communication
Teach and learn using free TV-Live Broadcasting software

Google Video Conferencing - in Gmail

iChat - http://www.apple.com/macosx/what-is-macosx/ichat.html

Skype - http://www.skype.com/

Wiki Software for Courses
Media Wiki - http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki

PB Works - http://pbworks.com/

Wikia - http://www.wikia.com/Wikia

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