On the hunt for a TED Talk for our next "Three Fork" session I came across Stanford Professor Daphne Koller sharing an online education platform set to change the world...
You must visit the page: https://www.coursera.org/ - so impressive! A massive network of FREE education from 16 of the world's best universities.
Courses go for 6-10 weeks, include weekly videos to watch, homework, assignments and sometimes exams - but tailored to your needs, and all developed by 16 of the world's Read more [...]
Last week I wrote about the gap between school and life-there-after, and I gather from the feedback quite a few of you agree.. Well today I'm going to write about some other gaps in our society's distribution of knowledge that I'm sure many of you have noticed:
1. A gap between knowledge within the university and the rest of the world.
Deep and wonderful ideas that could inspire and improve the lives of many seem to get lost in the theoretical and abstract language, meticulous referencing Read more [...]
Does school prepare us for life in the real world? Is knowledge passed from academia to public spheres? Are we learning from the past, or do we continue to make the same mistakes? How well do we really understand ourselves and others in our geopolitical, social, and historical context?
It seems to me there are major gaps within our distribution of knowledge.
Today I want to focus on one of those gaps, the gap between life in school and life after school. Over the coming weeks I will look at Read more [...]