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10/06/2012

Great teachers create all other professions.
Happy teachers day to all our teachers out there!

09/20/2012

Great infographic on education and venture capital
http://goo.gl/o3gGX

Last month super-angel Dave McClure told me that one of his hottest areas of investment was education. McClure and 500 Startups are mostly investing in informal education, but all of education is r...

07/23/2012

The Glorious End of Higher Education’s Monopoly on Credibility

The times they are a changin’, and in this essay, I’d like to suggest they are changing in a way that has massive implications for education: sources of credibility—once the domain of expensive degrees--are becoming democratized, decentralized, and diversified.

06/10/2012

Why Entrepreneurs Should Focus on Education
http://under30ceo.com/entrepreneurs-focus-education/

The education space is booming right now thanks to startups such as Skillshare, Knewton, Udemy, and 2tor.

05/09/2012

Don't give up. WD-40 lubricant got its name because the first 39 experiments failed. WD-40 literally stands for “Water Displacement 40th Attempt.”

What do Dyson, Angry Birds, and Groupon all have in common? They were "overnight successes"--or were they?

04/18/2012

Never stop learning

04/14/2012

Debating higher Ed

"Dale Stephens Stephens brings a unique perspective on the future of education, talent and innovation. At the age of 19, Dale leads UnCollege, the social movement that is changing the notion that college is the only path to success. Through UnCollege, Dale's goal is to empower students to hack their...

03/27/2012

Seth Godin's Education Manifesto-Great read
http://bit.ly/GUDHkL

03/10/2012

How to create a blog every step of the way
http://edudemic.com/2012/02/blog-setup-video/

On the surface, setting up a blog is simple. While it’s really not complex no matter how you view it, there can be small hangups and confusing steps that leave you uncertain how to proceed. Good thing you’ve got Edudemic.

03/03/2012

http://www.ted.com/talks/sugata_mitra_the_child_driven_education.html

TED Talks Education scientist Sugata Mitra tackles one of the greatest problems of education -- the best teachers and schools don't exist where they're needed most. In a series of real-life experiments from New Delhi to South Africa to Italy, he gave kids self-supervised access to the web and saw re...

03/02/2012

Why Some Ads Go Viral and Others Don't [Video] - Harvard Business Review: http://s.hbr.org/w6Kqpn

Thales Teixeira, Harvard Business School professor, explains what makes us want to watch—and share—certain commercials. For more, go to the article The New Science of Viral Ads....