Learning

MIT launches online, automated courses with certificates this spring with 6.002x Circuits and Electronics! Employing an open-source extensible LMS platform, simulated labs, and interaction with students and professors, the MITx program has me excited!

Rock on, MIT! Education for everyone means a better world.

Luis von Ahn presents a brilliant real-life example of how the internet can be used in new ways to solve multiple problems simultaneously using massively distributed online collaboration and provide value to all participants while doing so.

This is mind-blowing from a business perspective, and world-opening from a world education, learning and language perspective. Watch, enjoy, be amazed!

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I like the format of Howard Rheingold's new mini-courses. Topics include:

• Infotention - a mind-machine combination of brain-powered attention skills and computer-powered information filters
• Network Literacy
• Introduction to Cooperation Theory
• ...and more.

Each is a single box on the web page with tabs: videos, more videos, resources, and fresh links.

Thanks to Wendy Drexler for posting this video which features one of her 7th graders demonstrating her personal learning environment.

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Many people who use the Internet on a daily basis would think the headline as obvious, but this Infographic by OnlineEducation.net gives some recent numbers and specifics to the trends.

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A terrific site with loads of information mapping the languages, alphabets, syllabaries (phonetic writing systems consisting of symbols representing syllables) and more... even has constructed alphabets and scripts! (con-scripts)

Puzzles (real-life, ancient writings, and more cool stuff)
Huge Links section (language-specific, fonts, linguistics, learning languages, writing names and much more!)

Learn Hebrew for FREE!

Hebrew basics, grammar, blessings & prayers, meditations and much more. Extensive site.

Well done video with exceptions, vowels and all letter names.

By YouTube user jewfaq, who is also curator of the web site Judaism 101.

Teaching the ancient Biblical Hebrew language through study of the ancient Hebrew alphabet, culture and philosophy.

Free Hebrew lessons and email support!
Founded by Jeff Benner, who also is an author of several books on ancient Hebrew and an ancient Hebrew dictionary.

This TED talk by Salman Khan (below) gives enough background for those who are unfamiliar with the YouTube education sensation of Khan Academy, yet it also reveals exciting new data from the new exercises part of the Khan Academy web site. The data is revealing that we may have some core misunderstandings about classifying kids and their learning ability. It is also showing wonderful results from experimental "flipping the classroom" math classes for 5th and 7th graders in the Los Altos school district.

Witness the birth of a prime component of a new educational system.