Futurist Foresight
An infographic look education and mobile.
The infographic highlights findings from the mobile learning report, Living & Learning with Mobile Devices, released today from Grunwald & Associates and the Learning First Alliance. According to the report more than 50 percent of parents believe that schools should make more use of mobile devices in education.
I’m really surprised by the data collected in this survey (2,392 parents) which isn’t unfortunately broken down into age categories. A couple of notes I looked at:
- 83% said their school does not require use of personal electronic devices and 72% said it was not allowed at all.
- Parents are concerned about theft of personal devices (81%), but 45% still plan to buy or have a personal mobile device purchased for their student. 32% of parents surveyed think schools should require this.
(via gamechangeafrica)
Soon to be online education giant Coursera now profitable. A good sign and proof there is demand for this.
Coursera, the increasingly popular provider of free online courses, is beginning to make money.
The Silicon Valley-based company brought in $220,000 in the first quarter after it started charging for verified completion certificates, its co-founders said. The company also receives revenue from an Amazon.com affiliates program if users buy books suggested by professors.
“It’s the beginning of revenue,” said a Coursera co-founder, Daphne Koller.
» via Inside Higher Ed
An interesting infographic comparison between education in FInland and the USA.
(via invaderxan)
An interesting educational approach - a floating school in Nigeria.
Nigeria’s Cost & Energy-Efficient Floating Schools (by NLÉ)
The Makoko Floating School is an ambitious project that is currently under construction in the water community of Makoko in Lagos, Nigeria by NLÉ, a collaborative agency whose mission is to provide architectural change for developing cities. The project seeks to create floating buildings that are designed to serve as educational classrooms for neighborhood children.
The three-story architectural structure, built as a triangular prism, is intended to float on water with a base made of 256 plastic drums. The floating construct is built with locally sourced wood, electrically powered with solar panels, and designed to house about 100 students.
While this first generation of floating buildings is being designated solely as educational center, the project is opening a new chapter in architectural design that can be applied to a variety of facilities for poor communities like Makoko to urbanize efficiently. Because of the project’s green initiatives, each building is more affordable and cost-effective. Additionally, they accommodate for the climate changes that are resulting in the rise of sea levels.
(via climate-changing)
A concerted effort to make tertiary education more affordable.
Getting Down to the Reality of a $10,000 Bachelor’s Degree - Administration - The Chronicle of Higher Education (via infoneer-pulse)
(via infoneer-pulse)
An interesting comparison of tech integration in the education systems of China and the USA.
A look at augmented reality (AR) and education.
How Augmented Reality Can Change Teaching
The technology behind Augmented Reality is taking a real-world view and enhancing it with computer-generated imagery. Whether this is done by using a computer monitor and camera or fitted goggles to imprint imagery in the lenses, augmenting in this manner has great possibilities for a variety of tasks.
Educators of all kinds are implementing this technology and the progress has been nothing short of excellent. Children that use this technology have remained focused on the task and have seemed more attentive to the lesson. How can AR technology impact our educational system for primary and tertiary learning?
(via kdnewman)
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) such as Coursera are the future of education, lets see if they are the formal future of Tertiary education as well.
The American Council on Education (ACE) has announced a wide-ranging research and evaluation effort that will examine the academic potential of massive open online courses (MOOCs).
The ACE College Credit Recommendation Service…
The entire staff of the Philippines Department of Education will soon be using Google Apps
More universities around the world are seeing the value of Google Apps for education, including schools in Poland, Spain, the Netherlands, and Africa
Over 500 schools and districts are now using Chromebooks this fall
Seven of the eight Ivy League universities, along with 72 of the top 100 US universities are now using Google Apps for Education
Google celebrates teachers who make a difference (via thenextweb)
Google advancing education.
(via thenextweb)
![Education: The eternal value of tertiary education.
theatlantic:
How the Great Recession Proved, Beyond a Doubt, the Value of a College Degree
The U.S. economic recovery has been anemic by almost any standard. But for Americans with just a high school degree or less, it’s been worse than anemic. It’s been non-existent.
This week, Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce published a new report breaking down job growth during and after the Great Recession by education levels. And as it illustrates in the graph above, employment has been essentially flat since January 2010 for adults who never went to college.
Here’s what that translates too: For about 38 percent of working age Americans, there has been absolutely no growth in the job market since it bottomed out more than two years ago. To get a job, you’ve essentially had to hope someone else lost or left theirs.
Read more. [Image: Georgetown University]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m8v0tlZoiz1qcokc4o1_500.png)
Education: The eternal value of tertiary education.
How the Great Recession Proved, Beyond a Doubt, the Value of a College Degree
The U.S. economic recovery has been anemic by almost any standard. But for Americans with just a high school degree or less, it’s been worse than anemic. It’s been non-existent.
This week, Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce published a new report breaking down job growth during and after the Great Recession by education levels. And as it illustrates in the graph above, employment has been essentially flat since January 2010 for adults who never went to college.
Here’s what that translates too: For about 38 percent of working age Americans, there has been absolutely no growth in the job market since it bottomed out more than two years ago. To get a job, you’ve essentially had to hope someone else lost or left theirs.
Read more. [Image: Georgetown University]
