Education

Peru’s distribution of more than 800,000 low-cost laptop computers to children across the country easily ranks as one of the world’s most ambitious efforts to leverage digital technology in the fight against poverty. Yet five years into the program, there are serious doubts about whether the largest single deployment in the One Laptop Per Child Continue Reading →

The standardized tests administered by the states at the end of the school year typically have an essay-writing component, requiring the hiring of humans to grade them one by one. This spring, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation sponsored a competition to see how well algorithms submitted by professional data scientists and amateur statistics wizards Continue Reading →

Originally posted at Meng Online. This is the final post of a MENG Blend trilogy presenting easy changes that you can quickly make to improve your resume.  Most were presented in the MENGinar “How to Improve Your Resume in 60 Minutes,” available free to MENG members.  The first two posts in the trilogy were:  “Seven Continue Reading →

On the heels of the highly anticipated Facebook initial public offering, tech biggie Microsoft made a hush-hush entrance into the social networking arena, unleashing its So.cl experiment from beta-testing.The social network, known as So.cl (pronounced “social”), which we began hearing about in December, is currently only available to college students. Read the full story at Continue Reading →

In what is shaping up as an academic Battle of the Titans — one that offers vast new learning opportunities for students around the world — Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced a new nonprofit partnership, known as edX, to offer free online courses from both universities.  Read the full story at Continue Reading →

Conversations over the dinner table with his med-student girlfriend helped Mark Zuckerberg formulate his latest big idea — harnessing the power of Facebook to help eliminate the critical shortage of organs for patients desperately in need of life-saving transplants.  Read the full story and watch Zuckerberg on GMA at ABC News Continue Reading →

The innovative minds at TED have brought a new educational video website to the head of the class. Today, TED-Ed launched http://ed.ted.com, a site that features TED-Ed’s original K-12 animated videos with accompanying lessons and quizzes.  Read the full story at Forbes Continue Reading →

  Originally posted at Mengonline.com Reviewing more than 125 resumés for MENG members during the past four years, I discovered that many could be improved easily. These eleven improvements are taken from my recent MENG webinar, “How to Improve Your Resumé in Sixty Minutes,” which is available to members at mengonline.com where you also can Continue Reading →

[wpaudio url=”https://media.shellypalmer.com/wp-content/images/usrn/120420_SHELLYPALMER_GEN_BED.mp3″ text=”Click to play … ” dl=”0″] Online education is nothing new.  There are lots of for-profit institutions that offer college courses over the Internet – but a new interactive online learning system created by two Stanford University computer scientists may change everything.  Coursera offers free college level courses in partnership with some extremely Continue Reading →

An interactive online learning system created by two Stanford computer scientists has secured $16 million in venture capital and partnerships with five major universities. Read the full story at The New York Times Continue Reading →