Date: Mon, 6. October 2008 01:19:36

Opening Up Education is an MIT Press book edited by Toru Iiyoshi and Vijay Kumar; the subtitle is "The Collective Advancement of Education through Open Technology, Open Content, and Open Knowledge." The free ebook is, appropriately, available in an open access ipaper edition (Flash format) or via pdf files. (A print version may also be purchased from MIT Press.) The book includes a useful Foreword by John Seely Brown and valuable Introduction and Conclusion sections by the editors; the core of the book contains 27 chapters by diverse authors, many of them leaders in their fields.  ____JH____"Given the abundance of open education initiatives that aim to make educational assets freely available online, the time seems ripe to explore the potential of open education to transform the economics and ecology of education. Despite the diversity of tools and resources already available—from well-packaged course materials to simple games, for students, self-learners, faculty, and educational institutions—we have yet to take full advantage of shared knowledge about how these are being used, what local innovations are emerging, and how to learn from and build on the experiences of others. Opening Up Education argues that we must develop not only the technical capability but also the intellectual capacity for transforming tacit pedagogical knowledge into commonly usable and visible knowledge: by providing incentives for faculty to use (and contribute to) open education goods, and by looking beyond institutional boundaries to connect a variety of settings and open source entrepreneurs."

Date: Wed, 18. February 2009 03:58:53

People Capital, (http://www.People2Capital.com) developer of Innovative Peer-to-Peer Student Loan Platform, Secures Investment from Radcliff Group Inc. New peer-to-peer private student loan service utilizes a unique scoring system to predict a student's potential. Education finance revolutionized. (PRWEB Feb 12, 2009) Read the full story at http://www.emediawire.com/releases/education/finance/prweb2031814.htm

Date: Mon, 7. September 2009 00:23:15

AP - The furor surrounding President Barack Obama's upcoming address to the nation's schoolchildren is just silly, his education chief said Sunday, and a conservative senator who led the Education Department in the first Bush administration suggested teachers make it a civics lesson.

Date: Mon, 7. September 2009 00:23:15

AP - The furor surrounding President Barack Obama's upcoming address to the nation's schoolchildren is just silly, his education chief said Sunday, and a conservative senator who led the Education Department in the first Bush administration suggested teachers make it a civics lesson.

Date: Mon, 7. September 2009 00:23:15

AP - The furor surrounding President Barack Obama's upcoming address to the nation's schoolchildren is just silly, his education chief said Sunday, and a conservative senator who led the Education Department in the first Bush administration suggested teachers make it a civics lesson.

Date: Thu, 30. July 2009 15:06:00

The Weekly Standard - The House Committee on Education and Labor is having a busy summer. (Everybody in Washington is having a busy summer!) Earlier this month, for example, one of its essential subunits--the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary and Secondary Education and Healthy Families and Communities, or SECESEHFC--held lengthy hearings to determine new ways the United States Congress might accomplish one of its many important goals: the Prevention of Bullying.

Date: Mon, 8. December 2008 14:30:35

AP - President-elect Barack Obama has not signaled what he will do to fix the country's failing schools, but his choice of education secretary will say a lot about the policies he may pursue.

Date: Tue, 1. September 2009 15:26:10

Fresh Fruits and Vegetables, Healthy Food Choices and Shorter Service Lines Headline Back-to-School Menu (PRWEB Aug 27, 2009) Read the full story at http://www.emediawire.com/releases/ARAMARK/Education/prweb2796104.htm

Date: Thu, 1. September 2011 21:25:09

I have been asked for my ?single best idea for reforming K-12 education?. When you only have one shot, you want to make it count. So I thought I would share my idea here, in case anyone has a brighter insight. Root cause: factory model of management To decide what is the single best idea for reforming K-12 education, one needs to figure out what is the biggest problem that the system currently faces. To my mind, the biggest problem is a preoccupation with, and the application of, the factory model of management to education, where everything is arranged for the scalability and efficiency of ?the system?, to which the students, the teachers, the parents and the administrators have to adjust. ?The system? grinds forward, at ever increasing cost and declining efficiency, dispiriting students, teachers and parents alike.

Date: Fri, 10. June 2011 12:08:41

BusinessWeek - As an educator, I believe that knowledge for the sake of knowledge has enduring social value. As the head of executive education for Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management (Kellogg Executive Education Profile), this philosophy has no place in my mission. Having experienced managers show up at my door just to learn about a topic -- in the absence of knowing what specific issues they are there to address -- may not seriously harm their businesses, but it certainly will damage mine over time.