Designing Online Communities
To design your online communities, as a starting point you need to understand the broader context of how your customers use your services. What are their unmet needs? How might online interaction among customers themselves help to address these unmet needs or opportunities? — John Hagel & John Seely Brown (2012)
(Source: CNN)
The Invisible College Redux
This newly emerging system of knowledge organization has implications for all higher education institutions, in that colleges and universities have been the dominant organizational forms for knowledge work since at least the days of the Republic of Letters. The networked paradigm represented by the new invisible college—global in scope, managed through self-organization and emergent behavior—reflects a knowledge-organization method very different from that of the top-down, hierarchical, command-and-control multiversity that operates much like a corporation. —
DAVID J. STALEY AND DENNIS A. TRINKLE — Educause Review
(Source: educause.edu)
INFORGRAPHIC: American teacher salary figures compared to teachers in other industrialized nations
American Teachers Do More Work for Less Pay Than Their International Peers - Education - GOOD
Just bear this in mind… Son House - Grinnin’ in Your Face
The highest form of worship, he said, is the remix: ‘You use other people’s works to make something better.’
Spiritual leader of Sweden’sIsak Gerson, as reported by Rollo Romig (via newyorker)
Good Teachers = Lasting Gains
All else equal, a student with one excellent teacher for one year between fourth and eighth grade would gain $4,600 in lifetime income, compared to a student of similar demographics who has an average teacher. The student with the excellent teacher would also be 0.5 percent more likely to attend college.
(Source: The New York Times)
Explore the mathematics of spirals and Fibonacci numbers through pine cones, cauliflower, pineapples, artichokes, and daisies with Vi Hart (via @brainpickings)
Steppin’ into Joe Jackson - Another World (1982)
Social Media 2012: Early Prospects
I expect the excitement and hype in 2012 to be in the social game companies, newfangled B2B technology plays, and cloud computing. These will be the next bubble. Soon after, we’ll see the Big Data bubble. All of this is good because it spurs investment and innovation. That’s the beauty of Silicon Valley—it moves from one fad to another as if nothing ever happened.
-Vivek Wadhwa via Marshall Kirkpatrick/RWW
(Source: readwriteweb.com)
