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The Future of Work and Learning is Today

By Lisa Katz | Published: August 23, 2009
Learning Online Pays Off Students, educators and others can access syllabi, lecture notes, audio and video for almost every MIT course offered today, and over 50 million have done so. Meanwhile, the U.S. Department of education has done a meta-analysis that shows that students who take all or part of their classes online generally perform [...]
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New Working Paper: Social Change with a Network Mindset

By Kristin Wolff | Published: August 19, 2009
Monitor Institute Releases Working Wikily 2.0 Networks and Social Change We love and have been following the Working Wikily blog for some time now, but authors Diana Scearce, Gabriel Kasper, and Heather McLeod Grant have outdone themselves on this one. We agree that a networked mindset is evolving – and it changes assumptions about how [...]
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Michael Wesch: “The Crisis of Significance”

By Kristin Wolff | Published: August 17, 2009
People love learning things that matter. People want to learn what’s significant. Michael Wesch creates significance for the University of Manitoba, and for anyone who wants to understand the relationship between the new media ecosystem and the kind of learning we need now. It’s a bit long, but engaging enough to entertain, and instructive enough [...]
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