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2013: Education

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10.10.13 | 10:44 am

China Is Getting A Huge Online Education Platform

Google Wants To Power The Online Learning Revolution With MOOC.org

The new partnership with MIT and Harvard-founded edX will make massively open online courses even more massive and open.

Google Wants To Power The Online Learning Revolution With MOOC.org

A Computer To Grade Essays, To Save Professors Time

4 Tips For Creating A Sal Khan-Style Instruction Video…From Sal Khan

This clip’s not intended for you. Webmaster Sal Khan made it for profs using the EdX platform at Harvard, MIT, and elsewhere. But he’s so good at this stuff, you’ll find great tips for your own lectures, speeches, or presentations.

4 Tips For Creating A Sal Khan-Style Instruction Video…From Sal Khan

The Race To Fill Online Classrooms Expands Overseas

Coursera and Edx are expanding globally, and acting locally on a “flipped classroom” model.

The Race To Fill Online Classrooms Expands Overseas

Impact

New York City’s school buses will now be automatically routed and tracked using Via’s algorithm

These tiny magnetic springs melt microplastics into nothing

This tech company says offsets aren’t enough—it’s time to pay for negative emissions

Creativity

‘Matrix 4’: Everything we know so far (and what we’re dying to know)

The Museum of Ice Cream is returning to New York City with a permanent location

Kanye’s ‘Star Wars’-themed homeless shelter could get the Death Star treatment

Co.Design

Two MIT Media Lab scholars quit as Jeffrey Epstein connections emerge

The cult scent brand Diptyque is reviving a centuries-old way of wearing perfume

Researchers confirm that your selfies make you look like an a**hole

Work Life

This ‘unproductive’ activity can actually help you get more done

500 interns later, here’s what I learned about transitioning them to employees

Why being nice isn’t always good for your career