Tag: education
What did you want to be when you grew up?
This is perhaps rather an outmoded question, isn’t it, more suited to a “jobs for life” culture. What occupations can people choose that aren’t going to disappear over the next 25 years or so. If Uber has its way automated...
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Online structured learning points the way forward
The internet is playing a bigger role in our lives, at work, buying our groceries, managing our finances, sharing social experiences and otherwise living our lives online. And more and more of us are studying online, at our own...
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Crowdsourcing News Roundup – January 22
General Motors buys Sidecar’s assets, NASA is crowdsourcing robotic arm concepts, US delegates will visit India for smart cities development and many more – we have a handful of interesting stories for our curated...
Read More5 MOOC Platforms Where You Can Learn Anything
Do you have some spare time this summer? Why not invest in yourself and learn new things via the Internet? Perhaps, some basic concepts on programming, coding or learn online marketing, new technologies and languages, stocks and...
Read More5 Catalysts of Growth in Asia E-learning Market: The Future of Education
The burgeoning e-learning industry in Asia is expected to hit $12 billion by 2018 according to New Ambient Insight Report. Labeled as the second-highest (next to North America) self-paced e-learning market, countries such as...
Read MoreSocial Technologies and Collaboration Practices will Continue to Impact Research and Education
As we head into CSW Europe in Copenhagen next week, Oct 14-16, we interviewed Flemming Binderup Gammelgaard, Chief Consultant at VIA University – Denmark’s largest university of applied science – Flemming works at the...
Read MoreMIT Bitcoin Club To Create An Ecosystem for Digital Currencies on Campus
Got $100 in Bitcoins? How will you use it? MIT’s Bitcoin Club has a plan – to distribute the $100 in Bitcoins to every undergraduate on campus this Fall and press the “play” button. They hope to follow...
Read MoreCrowdsourcing Even Your Business Plan
Open innovation, co-creation and crowdsourcing are becoming trendier and trendier. They are often used as synonyms, in different context; therefore there is a need to define what lies behind these words. Open innovation is a...
Read MoreEdTech in Latin America: Three Trends to Watch
When it comes to technology’s education-related potential, it is largely the populations of developing economies who stand to benefit the most. This is certainly the case of Latin America, where the edtech market had a stellar 2012 and is poised to have an even better 2013.
Read MoreEducation for All (EFA) Uses Crowdsourcing to Solve Educational Issues
There is no limit to the incredible — positive — impact that crowdsourcing has on any one opportunity. Crowdsourcing can be used to solve the most mundane of projects — to building the most advanced armored...
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