Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

Our MOOC model emphasizes creation, creativity, autonomy... networked learning. The Coursera model emphasizes a more... learning approach through video presentations and short ... testing. Put another way, cMOOCs focus on knowledge crea... whereas xMO

This image problem starts at school, according to one te...
"Girls don't see IT as creative. It is that image of the ...
Gender differences become apparent during IT lessons, ev ...

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Rahman and Sample found that, with the use of 3D printer ...

I’d like to suggest a great MOOC that has been around ... “massive” (nearly a half million members), it is ope... (anyone can join without cost), it is open–as in share... copyright: all content by all contributors is in the pub... online (www

Daphne Koller is enticing top universities to put their ... courses online for free -- not just as a service, but as... how people learn. Each keystroke, comprehension quiz, pe... discussion and self-graded assignment builds an unpreced... on how know

In focus: Incredible raindrops on spiders
By Nate Lanxon
20 July 12
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While 3D printing might be all the tech geek rage right ...
Imagine 3D printing on such a large scale, using a concr ...

Last spring, a young biologist tried to buy a copy of a ... out-of-print reference work, Peter Lawrence’s The Maki... offered 15 used copies at reasonable prices – and two ... cheapest of which was $1,730,045.91, plus $3.99 shipping.
Michael Eisen,

Education is what survives when what has been learned ha... B. F. Skinner

Visual Prozac: The Unexpected Beauty of Abandoned Psychi...
Sometimes the most beautiful things come from unexpected ...

The iPhone that was introduced in 2007 looked nothing li... prototypes designed behind the scenes at Apple HQ.
In fact, we were straight-up shocked by some of the desi ...
All these designs have entered the public domain because ...

zSpace is a remarkable new 3D visualization tool that en... engineers, and film makers to build, manipulate, and vie... Unlike 3d TV, zSpace objects are created and displayed i... real time high definition. Your creations float magicall... as you imag

A collection of hardware and software components providi...
The components of the toolkit include:
Com-Phone a multimedia narrative application for a m ...
Com-Tablet a tablet-based media repository and Com-C ...
... loads where applicable, are a

HaveBlue didn't just print 3D rifle components, he also ... whether 3D sharing sites like MakerBot's Thingiverse wou... posting his weapon designs online for all to download. N... said it was frowned upon, but didn't disallow HaveBlue f...
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One of the most popular panels at the 2012 edition of Sn... "Publication Models in Computing Research: Is a Change N... for a Change?" A lively audience of more than 100 comput... occupied the medium-size ballroom in which the four-pers... and the aud

Wanted: 12 programmers to live on a remote tropical isla... to do nothing but write code.

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Today, our personal data is scattered across a growing n ...

SocialLearn is an experimental online learning space on ... The latest evolution in virtual learning, SocialLearn co... networking, Open University and wider web resources and ...
Developed in response to feedback about the need for inf ...
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Google has released a new software framework that aims t... the ability to create interactive experiences in physica... potentially be used to build interactive art installatio... involve physical interaction.

"Welcome to Project Holodeck, would you like to make my ...
(Credit: Project Holodeck)
Infiltrating the Borg or having dinner with Deanna Troi ...
Project Holodeck is exactly what it sounds like -- a ver ...

Online courses are experiencing sky-high dropout rates, ... a good thing.

Khan Academy has created a generic framework for buildin... framework, together with the exercises themselves, can b...
The framework exists in two components:
An HTML markup for specifying exercises.
A jQuery plugin for generating a usable, int

Test-driving the 'World's Cheapest Computer'
India's 'Aakash' project, a tablet billed as the cheapes ...
Euphoria over a cheap tablet with a 'Made in India' labe ...

Too many of Britain's top sportsmen and women were educa... country's Olympic chief has said.
Lord Moynihan said it was wholly unacceptable that more ...
He described it as one of the "worst statistics in Briti ...
He said it meant half of Great Britain

Hedge fund manager James Altucher recently wrote about h... kill you. Neuroscience shows that our brains simply were... Yet many people continue to live hyper-connected lives, ... creating 24/7 workweeks — no matter how unhealthy it is.
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Universities contributed £3.3bn to the UK economy in th...
And analysis by England's higher education funding body ...
This is less than half the £56m US price-tag for simila ...
The report added that the value of UK knowledge exchange ...
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What can athletes with ADHD teach us about the condition?
Michael Phelps, hailed as the greatest Olympian ever, ha ...
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... cs offer a positive legacy for people suffering from it?