next decade, this 30 million will grow to 100 million. To meet this staggering demand, a major university needs to be created each week" (1996). Related post.
"Our ancestors sailed across a vast ocean, one third of the earth's surface, and to accomplish this great feat they needed the vision to see islands over the horizon, the ability to plan intentional voyages of discovery, the discipline to train physically and mentally, the courage to take risks, and a deep sense of aloha to bind the crew together during the voyage. These are Hawaiian values but they are also universal values. They worked in the past and they will work today" (Polynesian Voyaging Society and Georganne Nordstrom, "Nainoa Thompson: In Search of History," Horizons, 1999).
instead of seeking radically new opportunities to develop school-as-it-can-be" (Seymour Papert and Gaston Caperton, in Transforming Learning Through Technology: Policy Roadmaps for the Nation's Governors, Milken Family Foundation, 1999).
matter. What matters to me is the determined space and time where determined tasks are accomplished. Social historical and political tasks, not only individual ones. . . . The two main tasks of the school: to get the already known knowledge and to produce the knowledge not yet in existence" (In Seymour Papert's "The Future of School," transcripts of a late-1980s Sao Paulo, Brazil, TV broadcast).
and to consider the action of others to give point and direction to his own, is equivalent to breaking down barriers of class, race, and national territory which kept men from perceiving the full import of their activity" (Democracy and Education, Macmillan, NY, 1916).
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I discovered this website via boston.com (Boston Globe), more specifically, its online listing of remedial college classes near Greater Boston.
“Massasoit on Demand” provides streaming media, videos and podcasts, on the Massasoit Community College webpage. Click on the image on the left to view an example on Massasoit language labs, hosted by Dr. Charles Wall, MCC [...]
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Marvin Krislov (Washingtonpost.com): “At the urging of students from Oberlin College and other Ohio schools, Jennifer Brunner, Ohio’s secretary of state, ruled in late February that colleges and universities can issue utility bills to their students, enabling them to fulfill the state’s voter residency requirements. The bills, which require no action, reflect payment for services [...]
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Dr. Bob Stewart’s (Texas A&M) Introduction to Physical Oceanography is an open textbook, and has been adopted at dozens of institutions including Yale, University of Miami and UC-San Diego. “‘Open textbooks’ are free, online, open-access textbooks. The content . . . is licensed to allow anyone to use, download, customize, or print without expressed permission [...]
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