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Stanford professors create startup to expand high quality university education online

April 19, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Knowledge Management, Regenerative Economy, Systems Science

The Stanford professor whose online computer science course went viral is now at it again..

From Silicon Valley, A New Approach To Education : All Tech Considered : NPR.

Stanford University Students Launch Sites By Hand, A Social Business for Global Development of Personal Websites and Effective Web Solutions (prweb.com)
Menlo Ventures’ Pishevar and Goldman’s Stanford to Found Sherpa, a Startup Aimed at Making New Startups (allthingsd.com)
Coursera Wins “Best New Startup Of 2012?, Get Schooled (techcrunch.com)
Startups fighting unemployment: Work for America (mobileworks.com)
Here’s The Coolest New Startup From The Kids At Stanford (businessinsider.com)
The Rise of the Heartland (blogs.wsj.com)
Rackspace Startup Program Spotlight On WiFiSLAM: Indoor Positioning On Your Smartphone (building43.com)

Maker Faire: DIY heaven

January 9, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Science, Metadata Masterdata, Systems Science

Maker Faire – Make Faire Bay Area 2012 May 19th & 20th.

Get free tickets to Maker Faire Bay Area this weekend from Craftside (craftside.typepad.com)
Maker Faire ticket winners and Make Ready Journal giveaways in our booth #220 (craftside.typepad.com)
Connecticut: 3D Printers Turn Library Into Place of Dreams (infodocket.com)
MAKE Honored by the City of San Mateo, Home to Maker Faire Bay Area (makezine.com)

Stanford’s Online High School Raises the Bar

August 23, 2011 by timbatchelder, posted in Health Informatics, Knowledge Management, Regenerative Economy, Systems Science

Stanford’s Online High School Raises the Bar – NYTimes.com.

StartX, Stanford’s nonprofit accelerator, nabs $800,000 funding grant (venturebeat.com)
Inside Stanford’s creativity factory (management.fortune.cnn.com)
The Way of the Future: Coursera (jaypgreene.com)
Home Schooling As the 21st Century Model for Public Schools? (etcjournal.com)
Dear Candice, I’m Sorry About The Internet – LockerGnome (lockergnome.com)
The audacity of Udacity: Google’s Sebastian Thrun vs. elite university diplomas. (radicalsocialentreps.org)
New study links LA Unified’s new schools to elementary student performance benefits (newscenter.berkeley.edu)
As K-12 goes high-tech, colleges get more virtual (msnbc.msn.com)
As Techies Flock to Stanford, MIT, Even Penn, Crimson Goes Green With Envy (betabeat.com)
Stanford/Intel study details power of new chip to diagnose disease, analyze protein interactions (eurekalert.org)

Crowd-sourcing college housing: repurposing the McMansions

June 2, 2011 by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Science, Linguistic Search, Regenerative Economy, Systems Science

Foreclosure (Photo credit: zane.hollingsworth)

Increasingly I’ve noted the rise in the rental economy in the USA as the previous ownership mentality of many Americans traumatized by economic collapse and wealth inequalities is replaced by one of access. One interesting example of this is college students who, according to a slew of recent articles, are now taking over McMansions which have gone into foreclosure. For example in Merced, CA, students at the local U. California school are now able to rent one of hundreds of foreclosed luxurious homes in overbuilt planned communities for a bargain price and enjoy amenities such as jacuzzis, pools, three-car garages, wall-to-wall carpeting, granite kitchen countertops, walk-in closets, inviting gas fireplaces, light-filled living rooms, master bathroom sinks. Not the same as the cramped dorm room of our college years, eh? On-campus room and board is $13,720 a year, compared with roughly $7,000 off-campus. But renting a McMansion they can each get a bedroom and often a private bath, pay $200 to $350 a month each.

Students find lush living for $300 a month – Boston.com.

The Meaning of Education (mnsho.com)
Curbed Timelines: Tracking the Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of the McMansion (curbed.com)
Allen Iverson Lost His Mansion in Foreclosure (slamonline.com)
Some College of New Jersey students live in Ewing hotels while dormitory is being renovated (nj.com)
You Made Your College Choice: What’s Next? (bigfuture.collegeboard.org)
A unique offshoot of the Housing Decline (myfinancialbodyguard.typepad.com)
Allen Iverson’s Atlanta Mansion Sold In Foreclosure Auction (hiphopwired.com)

Future Perfect: Ethnographic approaches to technology R&D

May 17, 2011 by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Science, Digital health, Knowledge Management

flash ethnography: observations of a doctor's ... — flash ethnography: observations of a doctor’s use of mobile tech with a patient (Photo credit: Tricia Wang ???)

Jan Chipchase is a Executive Creative Director of Global Insights at frog – a global design and innovation company. Prior to this role she worked for almost a decade as a strategist in Nokia’s Los Angeles design studio and Principal Scientist in the Nokia Research Center, Tokyo. She specializes in taking teams of concept/industrial designers, psychologists, usability experts, sociologists, and ethnographers into the field and, after a fair bit of work, getting them home safely.

Future Perfect » Research Methods.