by gary575 | Apr 22, 2013 | BEST LINKS EVER
Interesting article here on the rise of “competence-based” testing or education or whatever it is. Belive me the hucksters can smell the money!
by gary575 | Apr 18, 2013 | Uncategorized
Online Education Trumps the Cost Disease by Alex Tabarrok on April 16, 2013 at 7:32 am in Economics, Education, Web/Tech | Permalink In a large, randomized experiment Bowen et al. found that students enrolled in an online/hybrid statistics course learned just as much...
by gary575 | Apr 18, 2013 | BEST LINKS EVER
Udemy moves into professional training online.
by gary575 | Apr 17, 2013 | Uncategorized
This VentureBeat article introduces a very interesting free resource for bringing the logic of programming to elementary school. The company is Tynker. Its core philosophy is that elementary school-aged children should understand the basics of how computers work and...
by gary575 | Apr 16, 2013 | Uncategorized
There have been a number of articles lately on Software Boot Camps that train you to code in 3 or 4 months and “promise” a job; this article is typical. These “9 week wonder” programs are proliferating in the major tech centers –...
