Educational Technology Experts Skeptical About Apple's iBooks Apple has demonstrated again and again its ability to create and reinvent content marketplaces by designing irresistible devices and
platforms--will educational content be its next conquest?When I was in college 10 years ago, my biology textbook was a $300, four-pound monstrosity with a shiny CD-ROM shrink-wrapped to the front. To my knowledge no one ever took advantage of the INTERACTIVE!! MULTIMEDIA!!! extras.
Updated Thu Jan 19, 2012
5 Resources For The 4-Year Career These five innovative nonprofits are all developing responses to today's faster-changing world of work.
Updated Mon Jan 16, 2012
The Four-Year Career Lessons from the new world of quicksilver work, where "career planning" is an oxymoron.
Updated Thu Jan 12, 2012
Why Google Is The Most Important Learning Tool Ever Invented Author and education prognosticator Tom Vander Ark on making education more more valuable and more relevant (even in search terms).
Updated Thu Dec 1, 2011
Occupy Wall Street Moves Into New Phase With Student Debt Refusal Campaign This afternoon at the newly cleared, heavily patrolled, and sparkling (Christmas lights!) Zuccotti Park, a group of activists dressed in caps and gowns made from garbage bags and draped with paper chains announced the official launch of the Occupy Student Debt Campaign.
Updated Tue Nov 22, 2011
The Financial Institutions Banking On Occupy Wall Street's "Move Your Money Day" Demonstrators plan to withdraw money from big banks on Saturday. A handful of credit unions and other progressive institutions see it as an opportunity. But are they really any better than the banks?
Updated Fri Nov 4, 2011
Peter Thiel's Latest Project: Funding For DIY Garage Scientists He last turned heads by funding budding entrepreneurs who quit college to start businesses. Now Thiel's Breakout Labs is doing the same for scientists, granting $50,000 to $350,000 to entrepreneurial-minded free radicals.
Updated Wed Oct 26, 2011
Pearson, Blackboard, And Education's New "Openwashing" In January, the Department of Ed created a $2 billion grant program to fund open community college textbooks and other materials. Even after creators are compensated, open materials typically cost about 80% less than traditional textbooks, which students spend almost $1,000 a year on.
Updated Tue Oct 25, 2011
DIY U: Pippa Buchanan's Do-It-Yourself Master's Degree In this installment of DIY U, we dip into the world of Creative Commons-licensed open courseware and meet Pippa Buchanan, a DIY education rock star who built her education from just one blog post.
Updated Mon Oct 24, 2011
#OccupyWallStreet Organizer's Ideas For A New "Human Economy" As the #OccupyWallStreet movement gains momentum in more locations--and as protesters are arrested by the hundreds--Fast Company speaks with one of the movement's architects.
Updated Wed Oct 5, 2011
Why America is "Bleeding Competitiveness" For more on outsourcing, competitiveness, and education, read this month's Life in Beta column.
Updated Tue Oct 4, 2011
Starbucks Paper Cup Fail: It's A People Problem The coffee company made admirable promises to reduce its paper waste by encouraging people to bring their own cups, but are the way individual Starbucks are run ruining that effort?
Updated Wed Sep 21, 2011
Esther Duflo Bribes India's Poor To Health Good ideas that work aren't always as "nice" as we'd like.
Updated Wed Sep 7, 2011
Harnessing The Positive Power Of Peer Pressure Author Tina Rosenberg realized that while our common conception of peer pressure is negative, it can be used to drive people to improve their own behavior.
Updated Mon Aug 15, 2011
Focusing On Problems Instead Of Solutions Author David Bornstein says that when it comes to covering social innovation, the media is doing it wrong. Instead of showing what's wrong in the world, how about showing how smart solutions can bring about change?
Updated Fri Aug 12, 2011
Why Social Impact Investing Is A Crock A new breed of do-gooders wants to apply rigorous analysis to development programs. But are they getting any useful information, or just wasting money collecting meaningless data?
Updated Thu Aug 11, 2011
Using Data To Determine The Most Effective Use Of Your $50 Donation Economist Dean Karlan's new book looks at what works and what doesn't work in the fight against global poverty. Thinking about giving some money to a cause? Give it to one that works.
Updated Wed Aug 10, 2011
The Soylentularity, The Zizekularity, And Three Dozen Other Alternatives To The Singularity In the future, artificial intelligence will surpasses the human variety, leading to a Matrix-like universe of virtual reality, immortality, and....yawn. Isn't it time for some new ideas?
Updated Fri Aug 5, 2011
8 Ways To Build Your Personal Learning Network With Twitter, Google Plus, And More Lifelong learning is a must for any career. But in the long run, no one learns alone. We Your "Personal Learning Network," or PLN, is the group of people who feed your learning head. In a true PLN, you’re a contributor, not just a consumer. Here's how to get yours up and rolling.
Updated Wed Aug 3, 2011
