Month: February 2013
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Learning Creative Learning
You will have to be quick and decisive but there is a course being offered through MIT on learning creative learning. Enrollments close on the 8th of Feb but they are a day behind us in Australia so my Australian readers have a day or so to consider their options. This is their blurb about…
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Australian Education System – Can there ever be a balanced debate?
Please read this article first. I like it. It isn’t necessarily balanced but it is fair I think. Read the comments below it and your blood will start to boil depending on which side of the fence you belong to. I guess anything I add will be either be seen as stupid or wow,…
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My First Infographic
This is the followup post from the infographic post yesterday. I didn’t have much time as I spent hours on my relational algebra test with the MOOC that I am enrolled with, but here is my first infographic experiment as promised in yesterdays post. How did you go? I used easel.ly which was ok and…
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Sunday Zephyr – Infographics
Hopefully you know what an infographics is. If not here is a good definition: Information graphics or infographics are graphic visual representations of information, data or knowledge intended to present complex information quickly and clearly. (Wikipedia). The article below provides links to 10 tools that you can use to build a infographic. As a little exercise for Sunday, create one and if you…
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MOOC’s and the Future
Not sure what a MOOC is check this video out first before looking at the article below. Can’t see the video – click here. Here is a great article from Harvard Business Review on MOOC’s. It is basically 8 people commenting on various aspects rather than on one person’s opinion. I am currently enrolled in…