How to learn any language in six months
Adults Education
Chris Lonsdale is Managing Director of Chris Lonsdale & Associates, a company established to catalyse breakthrough performance for individuals and senior teams.
How To Cram For Your Exam
Adults Education
Try these study tips when you are down to the wire!
Ultimate Super Bowl Snack Food Recipes • Tasty
Adults Education
Make these delicious snacks for any watch party
Building a Marsbase is a Horrible Idea: Let’s do it!
Adults Education
Humans love to explore. Strangely enough even horrible places – like Mars. Let’s see how building a Mars base could work and how insanely nerve-wracking exactly it would be.
How Deadly Are Gambit's Exploding Cards?
Adults Education
The Ragin' Cajun is known for his explosive power and his signature weapon of choice, playing cards, but how dangerous could they be? Kyle stacks the deck on this week's Because Science!
Nujeen wasn't supposed to make it out of Syria, but that's not stopping her dreams.
Adults Education
Nujeen wasn't supposed to make it out of Syria, but that's not stopping her dreams.
Teaching Housing and New Desks for Nalube Primary School
Adults Education
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The myth of Sisyphus - Alex Gendler
Adults Education
Sisyphus was both a clever ruler who made his city prosperous and a devious tyrant who seduced his niece and killed visitors to show off his power.
Liberals vs Conservatives
Adults Education
Are Republicans and Democrats different because of biology?
How do you stop online students cheating?
Teachers Education
Here is an article (and a video that doesn't seem to be working) on cheating and online courses from the BBC.
Imagine taking a university exam in your own home, under the watchful eye of a webcam or with software profiling your keystrokes or your syntax to see whether it really is you answering the questions.
Online university courses have become the Next Big Thing for higher education, particularly in the United States, where millions of students have signed up for courses from some of the most upmarket universities.
Sugata Mitra: Build a School in the Cloud
Teachers Education
Educational researcher Sugata Mitra won the 2013 TED Prize. His wish is to build a school in the cloud, where children can explore and learn from one another using on-line resources and collaboration. Dr. Sugata Mitra's Hole in the Wall experiments have shown that children are able to teach themselves and each other without formal teaching, if they're motivated by curiosity and peer interest.
Cambridge English - Need a plan?
Teachers Education
Cambridge has a great website with a teacher zone that has free lesson plans.
What we're learning from online education
Teachers Education
Daphne Koller is enticing top universities to put their most intriguing courses online for free -- not just as a service, but as a way to research how people learn. With Coursera (cofounded by Andrew Ng), each keystroke, quiz, peer-to-peer discussion and self-graded assignment builds an unprecedented pool of data on how knowledge is processed.
An Educator's Guide to the "Four C's"
Teachers Education
Preparing 21st Century Students for a Global Society. See the preview and download the full article for additional links on the subject.
Public Webcasts
Teachers Education
EDUCAUSE 2014 Annual conference has sessions that you can view live, or in recorded forms. Topics for the sessions range from "Flipping Out over the Flipped Classroom?" to "Badging to Support Professional Development and Career Building".
Incorporate TED Talks into the Learning Experience
Teachers Education
Take the time to try out TED-Ed and all of the creative features it has. Create lessons to go along with almost any video on YouTube. Ted-Ed will provide a structure for questions and feedback.
Lessons From Finland: What Educators Can Learn About Leadership
Teachers Education
A excerpt from an article written by, Barnett Berry and Ann Bryd, and Alan Wieder that focuses on educators in Finland see themselves as leaders.
Higher Education Strategy Associates
Teachers Education
Daily reflections on issues, trends and data in higher education. Review recent posts and sign up for daily emails.
Does The Current Education Model Make The Grade?
Teachers Education
A panel of experts discuss issues with education and what the future may hold. Watch the debate and have your own discussions with colleagues.