Why School?: How Education Must Change When Learning and Information Are Everywhere
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The Mozilla Foundation has begun a large-scale effort to award “badges” for expertise learners acquire through more informal means. In conjunction with the MacArthur Foundation, Mozilla awarded over a million dollars earlier this year to fund innovative ways of re-envisioning how we identify expertise.
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Coursera to offer “100 or more free massive open online courses, or MOOCs,
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Academy, a nonprofit offering more than 3,300 videos aimed at helping you “learn almost anything for free” (so far viewed more than 183 million times). Or platforms like Knewton, which can pull individually tailored pieces of content from a vast database to
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