10 Free Great Learning Apps
We’re not necessarily saying these are the 10 best free iPad apps for students and teachers. Though they could be. These are 10 excellent apps that are worth your looking into:
Conference Insights: Charters & Tech
The Learning Collective just returned from two conferences: the National Charter Schools Conference and ISTE. In fact, we may have been the only folks at both. Here are some takeaways: 2.1 million of the 55 million K-12 students nationally are in charter schools Lots of discussions on BYOD (bring your own devices) were happening at […]
Joshua Cook Joins TLC
Joshua Cook Joins The Learning Collective
Girl Scouts of USA Hires TLC
Girl Scouts hires The Learning Collective to conceive an online experience to help girls internationally reduce their carbon footprint.
TLC Members’ Work Webby Nominated
TLC Members’ Work Nominated for 2011 Webby in Youth Category
College Board Hires TLC
Each year, the College Board serves seven million students and their parents, 23,000 high schools, and 3,800 colleges through major programs and services in college readiness, college admission, guidance, assessment, financial aid, enrollment, and teaching and learning. The College Board has hired The Learning Collective to help develop College Board’s new online professional development model
TLC Announces Three New Clients
The Learning Collective announces three new clients.  We are acting as the “in-house” online educational experts for Ketchum and their account with a leading provider of online classes to middle and high school students. We’re advising UCLA on the potential development of an online emergency preparedness tool for developmentally disabled adults. And we’re overseeing Mojo […]
UNICEF Rapid Prototyping Lessons
Interesting lessons learned excerpted from UNICEF’s Stories of Innovation … This video is a synopsis of the projects, themes and trouble-shooting expressed at the Design Days event on May 10-11 at UNICEF NYHQ. We have edited down a conversation between UNICEF sponsored rapid design prototypers to profile what they have created in order to respond […]
Digital Playground Inspires Slumdog
Earlier this month, the MacArthur Foundation announced the winners of the third annual Digital Media and Learning competition. There are some great projects, especially the Learning Lab Awardees which won up to $200,000 to further their initiatives.
Thought Leaders vs Company Bloggers
Now that businesses have all rushed to have Twitter and Facebook profiles and to maintain company blogs, has the onslaught of information made it actually more difficult to get your message heard?
Business strategy and information technology consultant Stowe Boyd wrote a blog post on Thursday entitled “Thought Leadership: Beyond Marketing” in which he suggests that the rise of social media might be making us immune to marketing. Boyd suggests that startups might benefit from rethinking how they position themselves online to land on the side of that signal-to-noise ratio so that they’re actually heard.