Leadership, Trust and e-Learning

As an emerging leader in the digital age, connecting with people is also about being visible in the 'social media' milieu ~ here's a very helpful infographic about some of the potential dangers of being active in social media.

This is important for students who are just out there and, for that matter adults.

Extremely important to educate all about dangers to individual lives when posting personal information--especially vulnerable children. 

Glimpse of the heated debate about online education. Is technology acting as an enabler to the mission and strategy of universities? Or is it threatening the quality?

In the fall of 2011, Stanford University offered three of its engineering courses—Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Introduction to Databases—for free online. Anyone with Internet access could sign up for them. As Sebastian Thrun, the director of Stanford’s Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, tells the story, he assumed just a handful of people would enroll in his graduate-level AI class. Instead, more than 160,000 students registered. A massive number.

That’s when the enormous hype began about massive open online courses, better known as “MOOCs.” Since then, Thrun and his fellow lab professors Daphne Koller and Andrew Ng have founded education organizations that offer free online classes. Thrun’s start-up is called Udacity (in part, a takeoff on the word “audacious”), and Koller and Ng’s is Coursera. In December 2011, in response to Stanford’s initiatives, MIT launched its own effort, called MITx (short for “Massachusetts Innovation & Technology Exchange”), and a few months later joined forces with Harvard, drolly changing the name of the organization to edX. A consortium of British universities has also created its own MOOC platform, Futurelearn. So far, more than 90 universities worldwide have teamed up with one or more of these MOOC providers, prompting the New York Times to crown 2012 as “The Year of the MOOC.”

Super pedagogic ! 

Great use of "augmented reality animation" to tell the history of 200 years of global health in less than 5 minutes. Highly recommended viewing.

A superb presentation :-)

Focus on K-12 but many of the suggestions are suitable for learners at any level.  The Teacher apps similarly find a place at many levels.

So much information...so little time... however, a list to consider...

Totally awesome list of FREEBIES!

The 12 disruptive technologies include: mobile Internet, automation of knowledge and work, Internet of things, cloud technology, advanced robotics, autonomous and near-autonomous vehicles, next-generation genomics, energy storage, 3D printing, advanced materials, advanced oil and gas exploration and recovery, renewable energy.

des compétences et des emplois ...

As a person who does curate content for her various websites, this seems like a handy guide. I personally use Scoop.It!, and I'm aware of a couple of others, but who knew there were so many? Thanks to Darin Hammond for this one.

--techcommgeekmom