Tag: California

  • Stanford professors create startup to expand high quality university education online

    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. Related articles 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…

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  • Stanford’s Online High School Raises the Bar

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

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  • Crowd-sourcing college housing: repurposing the McMansions

    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…

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  • Future Perfect: Ethnographic approaches to technology R&D

      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,…

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  • KGI | Master of Bioscience

      KGI | Master of Bioscience.   This cross btw an MBA and a biotech degree is pretty cool.     Related articles   Cancer Treatment Centers of America First in U.S. to Test Novel Nanotherapy for the Treatment of Lung Cancer (prweb.com) Colorado BioScience Association names Giles CEO (bizjournals.com) Need An Alternative To Stocks…

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