What we're learning from online education
Teachers FutureDaphne 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.
Redefining the Role of the Teacher: it's a Multifaceted Profession
Teachers FutureJudith Taack takes a closer look at what being an educator really means. In the article she explains how teaching should be considered a trade rather than a profession and she addresses how culture has changed and so should teaching.
Highlights from Google's First Online Education Conference
Teachers FutureGoogle's first ever online education conference started with the simple question, "How do we prepare the students of today to be the digital leaders of tomorrow?" A series of presenters offered their answers to that very question.
Will we ever be able to teleport? - Sajan Saini
Adults FutureIs teleportation possible? Could a baseball transform into something like a radio wave, travel through buildings, bounce around corners, and change back into a baseball? Oddly enough, thanks to quantum mechanics, the answer might actually be yes... sort of! Sajan Saini explains.
China's Amazing Water Canal | China's Future MEGAPROJECTS: Part 2
Adults FutureSouth-to-North Water Transfer Project: The huge populations filling China's northern megacities have a shortage of the single most necessary resource for life: water. To solve that problem, the Chinese will soon be moving 44.8 billion cubic meters of fresh water each year from the wetter South to the dryer North.
Jing-Jin-Ji, A MEGALOPOLIS | China's Future MEGAPROJECTS: Part 1
Adults FutureJing-Jin-Ji: China is in the midst of a construction spree unparalleled in human history. These are the Megaprojects that will lift China into the future. China wants to make its capital, Beijing, the center of the world's largest supercity, by merging three provinces into one continuous megalopolis of 130 million people.