The multimedia series, Invitation to World Literature, offers an interactive journey through 13 classic works from a range of eras, places, cultures, languages, and traditions
The continuing professional education of adults is the No. 1 gross industry in the next 30 years, but not in the traditional form. In five years, we will deliver most of our executive management programs online. The Internet combines the advantages of both class and book. In a book you can go back to page 16. In a class you can't, but in a class there is a physical presence- and on the Internet you have both - Peter Drucker
Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously - G.K. Chesterton
Try to learn something about everything and everything about something - Thomas H. Huxley
Do you believe in setting children's minds alive and ablaze with excitement and passion or is it a matter of filling them with facts and testing them on them? It depends on your vision of education - and I know which one I'd go for - Philip Pullman, http://www.markvernon.com/friendshiponline/dotclear/index.php?post/2010…
Stanford tutors taught a class, attended by 175 students in situ - and over 150,000 via an interactive webcast. Key learnings included: invite students to comment in online fora; don't leave the videos online, but run the class at a set time; emulate the one-on-one experience as far as possible.
World Bank data showed that, in developing countries, 30% of those under the age of 25 use the Internet, compared to 23% of those 25 years and older. However, 70% of the under 25-year-olds-a total of 1.9 billion-are not online yet: a huge potential if developing countries can connect schools and increase school enrollment rates.
A hopefully apocryphal - but probably not - anecdote has it that a first year history student at an American Ivy League university recently raised his hand and asked the professor: "If you're currently teaching us about the Second World War, that means there must have been a First World War, right?"
Now comes the suggestion that many of the younger generation have never heard of perhaps the most successful composer - in commercial terms - of all time.
Leading economist and activist Jeffrey Sachs believes that there are many practical things individuals can do to make a positive difference in the world.
Why don't we teach our children in school what they are? We should say to them...You are unique. In all the world there is no child exactly like you. In the millions of years that have passed there has never been a child like you...You may become a Shakespeare, a Michelangelo, a Beethoven...You have the capacity for anything. You are a marvel - Pablo Casals