Apple Revolutionizes Education, Again

Online education and traditional education have been a seemingly unintentional collaborative endeavor of late, and today’s announcement by Apple, Inc., of it’s new iBooks 2 textbook service will serve to blur the lines between tradition and innovation even more.  iBooks 2 promises to deliver movies, links, multitouch gestures, faster than light searches, photo galleries, visual quiz sections, and 3-D models among other interactive elements to textbooks.  Available for download starting today, iBooks 2 is a free app. So, what about the textbooks themselves?  Where will they come from? (more…)

Apple Revolutionizes Education, Again
Jan19

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Education Opens

Last week, the esteemed Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced plans for free online courses that will allow participants in the program to earn official certifications from MIT.  While the courses themselves will be free, heralding what is likely to become a historic step forward for the open education movement, the certificate at the end of the course of study will be available to students for a “modest fee.”  In an open and free society, many people have begun to adopt libertarian attitudes towards the availability of knowledge and information.  Such information should be free to anyone who wishes to learn it, and there should be some recognition given for the successful completion of independent studies.  The same can recently be said for our society’s increasing intolerance of draconian legislation such as SOPA (or, the Stop Online Piracy Act) scheduled for debate in the House early next year.  Although these two fields are starkly different — education, and digital ownership of copyrighted materials and media — the fundamental change in the attitudes of free people regarding both matters is evident in each forum. (more…)

Education Opens
Dec26

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Peace Corps

The Peace Corps, an American volunteer program run by the United States Government, has three primary goals: providing technical assistance, helping people outside the United States to understand US culture, and helping Americans to understand the cultures of other countries. The kind of work they do is carried out by volunteers who are deployed to foreign countries for a period of time, usually limited to five years but often much shorter. (more…)

Peace Corps
Nov18

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Get A Masters To Get Ahead

Many people often ponder the idea of going back to school to get their masters degree so that they can improve their career.  Unfortunately it usually does not get any farther than pondering though because the thoughts of how much work and effort that will have to go into earning a degree can seem more than overwhelming.  The cost is another factor that can scare people from moving on in their education and career.   (more…)

Get A Masters To Get Ahead
Sep30

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Global Monetary Value of Teachers

If children are truly the world’s most valuable resource, then teachers are non-expendable assets to every country around the globe since the future of the world’s children relies on how well we educate them.  The recent education crisis in America involving devastating budget cuts for school districts in every state, a reduction of federal funding support, and no relenting of the failed No Child Left Behind legislation and educational reforms that have done nothing to reform education, and much to destroy it. (more…)

Global Monetary Value of Teachers
Sep06

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