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Austerity in Europe: what does it mean for ordinary people? | Business | guardia...

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Austerity has been the main prescription across Europe for dealing with the continent's nearly three-year-old debt crisis, brought on by too much government spending. But what does it mean for the average…

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Working-class children do worse at school in Britain than in Estonia, Hungary or...

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Movement Against Standardized Testing Grows As Parents Opt Out | MindShift

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Swarms, multitude, and activism: weaving the transatlantic conversation with OWS...

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Future Skills Learning I - MentorMob

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The future society and economy requires new skills, not provided by present educational systems. This playlist is a collection of reading as an introduction to the subject. Further playlist will present more readings and videos.

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László Barabási: “Las redes sociales ayudan a que el mundo sea cada vez más pred...

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Estudiar una sociedad, un ser vivo o internet solo a partir de sus componentes individuales es perder una parte esencial de su grandeza. Esta idea está en la base de la Ciencia de las Redes, que pretende enfocar esos sistemas complejos desde el punto de vista de las relaciones entre los elementos que la componen.

A mini-course on network and social network literacy « Learning Change

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I’ve become convinced that understanding how networks work is an essential 21st century literacy. This is the first in a series of short videos about how the structure and dynamics of networks influences political freedom, economic wealth creation, and participation in the creation of culture. The first video introduces the importance of understanding networks and explains how the underlying technical architecture of the Internet specifically supports the freedom of network users to innovate.

Network Science – Albert-László Barabási « Learning Change

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Systems as diverse as the World Wide Web, Internet or the cell are described by highly interconnected networks with amazingly complex topology. Recent studies indicate that these networks are the result of self-organizing processes governed by simple but generic laws…

Social Networks Adapting Pedagogical Practice « Learning Technologies of Change

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SNAPP is a software tool that allows users to visualize the network of interactions resulting from discussion forum posts and replies. The network visualisations of forum interactions provide an opportunity for teachers to rapidly identify patterns of user behaviour – at any stage of course progression. SNAPP has been developed to extract all user interactions from various commercial and open source learning management systems (LMS) such as BlackBoard (including the former WebCT), and Moodle. SNAPP is compatible for both Mac and PC users and operates in Internet Explorer, Firefox and Safari.

Cómo crear tu propia Khan Academy « Learning Technologies of Change

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Salman Khan es el fundador de la Khan Academy, una organización educativa sin ánimo de lucro. En su página web puedes encontrar gratuitamente una colección de más de 2.700 microlecciones a través de videos tutoriales hospedados en YouTube.

A Leader’s Framework for Decision Making « Learning Change

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Business schools and organizations equip leaders to operate in ordered domains (simple and complicated), but most leaders usually must rely on their natural capabilities when operating in unordered contexts (complex and chaotic). In the face of greater complexity today, however, intuition, intellect, and charisma are no longer enough. Leaders need tools and approaches to guide their firms through less familiar waters.

Conceptboard – Realtime Teamwork & Collaboration Software « Learning Technologie...

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Realtime teamwork on thoughts and documents. Share and discuss your content in seconds with colleagues, customers & friends.

Whiteboard. An almost infinite amount of space for all documents, sketches and memos. And everything at one glance!

Task management. Assign tasks directly in the mutual exchange. This is how your project makes progress!

Documents. Edit screenshots, sketches, plans or layouts. Upload and get started!

Feedback. Provide feedback directly in the layout or document. That way everyone knows what is going on.

Live meeting. Welcome to the meeting room for all! Together, live, in real time and from anywhere!

Customer involvement. Include your customers in the project or grant them an impressive look over your shoulder.

Frontiers in Computer Education « Learning Technologies of Change

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This book is the proceedings of the 2011 International Conference on Frontiers in Computer Education (ICFCE 2011) in Sanya, China, December 1-2, 2011. The contributions can be useful for researchers, software engineers, and programmers, all interested in promoting the computer and education development.

Technology for Education and Learning « Learning Technologies of Change

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Latest research on Technology for Learning and Education. Results of the 2012 International Conference on Technology for Education and Learning (ICTEL 2012). Written by leading experts in the field.

This volume contains 108 papers presented at the international conference on Technology for Education and Learning (ICTET 2012), Macau, China , March 1-2, 2012, which is to bring together researchers working in many different areas of education and learning to foster international collaborations and exchange of new ideas.

Forecast 2020: Web 3.0+ and Collective Intelligence « Learning Technologies of C...

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The ancient Chinese curse or saying — “May you live in interesting times.” — is upon us. We are in the midst of a new revolution fueled by advancements in the Internet and technology. Currently, there is an abundance of information and the size of social interaction has reached a colossal scale. Within a span of just one generation, the availability of information and our access to them has changed dramatically from scarcity to surplus. What humans will do or try to do with such powerful surplus of information will be the main topic of this article. First, let’s understand what brought us to this current state.

Social networks and cooperation in hunter-gatherers « Learning Change

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Social networks show striking structural regularities, and both theory and evidence suggest that networks may have facilitated the development of large-scale cooperation in humans. Here, we characterize the social networks of the Hadza, a population of hunter-gatherers in Tanzania. We show that Hadza networks have important properties also seen in modernized social networks, including a skewed degree distribution, degree assortativity, transitivity, reciprocity, geographic decay and homophily. We demonstrate that Hadza camps exhibit high between-group and low within-group variation in public goods game donations. Network ties are also more likely between people who give the same amount, and the similarity in cooperative behaviour extends up to two degrees of separation. Social distance appears to be as important as genetic relatedness and physical proximity in explaining assortativity in cooperation.

From Social Networks to Collaboration Networks: The Next Evolution of Social Med...

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The biggest value that social networks offer goes beyond being marketing channels to push communication to prospects and customers. They are morphing into new channels for collaboration and innovation. Social networks are becoming unique touch points to engage communities, start conversations, recruit skillful employees, and develop new innovative ideas. Firms that successfully leverage social networks are doing so to engage their communities in conversation explicitly to tap into their brainpower and energy. They ask customers and followers to participate in brainstorming with them so they can learn how to be a better company, offer better products and services, or support the values and issues of the community. Social networks are increasingly tapping into this collaborative mindset in ways that continue to evolve.

Knowledgeable individuals lead collective decisions in ants « Learning Change

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Self-organisation underlies many collective processes in large animal groups, where coordinated patterns and activities emerge at the group level from local interactions among its members. Although the importance of key individuals acting as effective leaders has recently been recognised in certain collective processes, it is widely believed that self-organised decisions are evenly shared among all or a subset of individuals acting as decision-makers, unless there are significant conflicts of interests among group members.

The Hole in the Wall Project and the Power of Self-Organized Learning « Learning...

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Sugata Mitra is Professor of Educational Technology at the School of Education, Communication and Language Sciences, Newcastle University, England, and a visiting professor at the MIT Media Lab in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Professor Mitra works in the areas of cognitive science, information science and educational technology, and he has a keen interest in engineering and software development. This is an excerpt from his new e-book, Beyond the Hole in the Wall: Discover the Power of Self-Organized Learning.

Design for Social Sustainability – a framework for creating thriving communities...

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Our starting point is that although there is widespread understanding of the physical and environmental challenges involved in creating new settlements, there is still much to be learnt about what makes some communities succeed and others fail.

In this paper we argue that building new communities that can flourish and become socially successful and sustainable is as important as designing places that are physically, economically and environmentally sustainable. Social sustainability is an issue of public value as well as the wellbeing, quality of life and satisfaction of future residents. It demands a new approach to planning, design and development that we call social design, which needs to be integrated into policy and professional practice across all the disciplines involved in the creation of new communities – much like the way standards of environmental sustainability have become widely adopted in recent years.

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