An Analysis of a 1991 US Labor Dept Report called, “What Work Requires.” This report is evidence to Support my Learning Community Architecture.
What 21st Century Work Requires of 21st Century Education
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Atlantis Learning Community Executive Summary
Atlantis Learning Community Executive Summary Initiative Provide the best flexible, lifelong learning platform through the use of 21st Century technologies. Mission Encourage collaboration Facilitate interoperability Promote best practices for using distributed...
3 Ways Learning will Change
3 Ways Learning Will Change This is my periodic visit to the the question: What will learning look like in the future. We will continue to see big changes in both learners and learning environments. The key driver, The Digital Revolution. With omnipresent internet...
Learning Community Learning Platform
Learning Community Learning Platform Key Drivers: Personalized Learning Plans and Micro-Learning!
Giving Away Knowledge for Free and Only Charging for Knowledge Assessment Is An Online Learning Model Validated by Latest Coursera Moves
A recent move by Coursera, one of the largest Online education providers, validates a new online learning model where knowledge is given away for free, but assessment is paid for. The answer is to separate Knowledge acquisition from knowledge assessment. Essentially...
10 Blended Learning Trends
Blended Learning is learning that combines analog and digital, asynchronous and synchronous, mobile and fixed (Physical School), and electronic and human. Blended learning is the 21st Century way to learn!
7 Education Websites that Demonstrate the Power of 21st Century Learning Communities
The instant we domesticated the electron we gave to educators the power to transform 18th Century paper based teacher centered education into 21st Century learning tools. EdTech is what we call this electronic Education Technology. And the world over smart people...
Gallup Study found reasons for our failing Education Systems. I Completely Agree with their findings!
A recent Gallup Study gathered some data that pointed to the reasons for our failing Education. Gallup found that those educational institutions that make intentional efforts to embrace the fundamentals of human development will thrive, others will fail badly. While...
3 Learning Steps
Step one: gain a complete understanding of the natural laws that govern the thing you are trying to learn. Step two: gain a complete understanding of our own capabilities, aptitudes, skills, and talents for the thing you are trying to learn. Step three: implement...
Another Report on Online Education Benefits
Here is a post from NPR that provides some great facts and conclusions about Online Education Benefits and why it is the wave of the future. Report on Online Education in the US Chasing The Elusive 'Quality' In Online Education by ANYA KAMENETZ June 27, 2014 8:03 AM...
Atlantis Learning Community Flips the Traditional Educational Models
Traditional Adult Education has it backwards. Today, we start by paying for a class ($2,000+). Then we read the book or listen to the expert. Finally, we take the assessment. This process should be flipped. We should start with a "FREE" high level assessment. Then...
Education for Life might be possible if it is Subscription based, say 2 Wharton Profs. I agree. And I add to that idea.
I agree with two Wharton Professors; education should be Subscription based. That is the best way to stimulate "Education for Life." And I would add that the various levels of subscription should depend on the amount of effort on the part of the Faculty and...
Change is Needed in Education
Education is hopelessly antiquated and crippled by 1st Century fears and 18th Century assembly-line work rules. Until the religious, political, and economic stranglehold on the world's school's is broken, there is virtually no hope things will change. Teachers should...
5 Reasons Why Schools Can be Different Today and Why it is Important
I have been either a student or a teacher for most of my life. The traditional teaching model is for the teacher to stand in front of the class and work their way though a "curriculum." And in most cases, I find it mind-numbingly boring for both the teachers and...
The 15 Lessons Every Entrepreneur Must Learn: Forbes
Forbes | By Steven KotlerPosted: 09/06/2013 3:46 pm EDT In the middle of the economic meltdown that was 2007-2009, James Marshall Reillynoticed a particular new breed of high-minded entrepreneur who, well, didn’t seem to be melting. It was peculiar all right. Not...
10 OpenCourseWare Sites for a Free Education
1. MIT While not the first university to adopt OpenCourseWare (OCW), MIT's initiative started the movement in 2002. Many other universities followed suit. Still one of the best OCW programs out there, MIT offers materials from 2,150 courses in business, engineering,...
Education Secretary: Tech Will Never Replace Great Teachers
nbsp; Everyone wants to hangout with Sal Khan. The popular founder of the innovative Khan Academy is a good person to rub elbows with — even if you're the Obama administration's top education official. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan fielded Khan's questions about...