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.Ā Ā 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.Ā We’re advising UCLA on the potential development of an online emergency preparedness tool for developmentally disabled adults.Ā 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.Ā 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.
The Emotional Web
Online communities and resources focused on peoplesā emotional health have been around for a while.Ā This includes the youth space through efforts like icouldbe.orgās online mentoring community which has been around for the past 10 years.Ā And other resources tailored to help youth deal with particular issues, such as thesafespace.org to help prevent and cope […]
Mobile Learning Growing in Africa
Mobile is playing an increasingly important role in learning in Africa.Ā The following are excerpts from a recent article in Education Week entitled āMobile Devices Deliver Learning in Africa,ā by Michelle Davis. School-age children across Africa often donāt have access to a formal education. They may live in remote rural areas or in violence-plagued regions […]
Vernacular Video Culture in Education
A video by Howard Rheingold discussing collaborative learning and video.
Cloud-Based, Open-Source For Teachers?
A computing device for every teacher and student so they can access the Internet at school or at home? That, along with an embrace of cloud computing, Creative Commons, and open-source technologies is part of a new set of recommendations from the U.S. Department of Education.
Virtual Worlds as Scientific Tools
Virtual worlds have grown by leaps and bounds over the past few years, and their applications in expressing political messages and building competitive online-based businesses seem to expand with each new release. But what about scholars at universities and think tanks who hope to use virtual worlds and the social microcosms they create as part of serious academic study?