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.
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.
Develop Idea for A Mobile Learning App
Applications for the first Startl Design Boost are now open for budding entrepreneurs and designers interested in developing cutting edge mobile applications for learning. Developed in conjunction with IDEO, the first Startl Boost, a five day building, hacking, business and human centered design immersion will be held at the Pratt Institute in New York City, […]
Education and Google Buzz…A Match?
It seems, Google has thrown down the gauntlet…Google Buzz is a incredibly powerful attempt to take a piece of Facebook’s market share in social networking. Google Buzz is powerful because if you have a Gmail account you are already a member. Within minutes of logging in to my Gmail account I had followers and I […]
Augmented Reality and Education
Image via CrunchBase Five Dutch content providers participated in the development of worlds first AR (Augmented Reality) browser. There are a variety of developers working in this area currently and it is the new buzz word in tech circles. Augmented Reality is technology that allow the user to point AR equipped devices at objects to […]