Globe Flowers: Here's Marissa Mayer from Google sharing ideas about Innovation, Udacity University, New ways of Grading?

Here's Marissa Mayer from Google sharing ideas about Innovation - http://ecorner.stanford.edu/authorMaterialInfo.html?mid=1524 - added this to WUaS's Innovation, wiki subject ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Innovation ...

and here -




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Stanford Univ.'s Sebastian Thrun, who co-taught the free, online, Stanford 'Artificial Intelligence' course this past fall which attracted SO many students, is leaving Stanford to FURTHER online education ... exciting times, that will benefit so many ... (see ALL of Stanford's i-Programmer courses here - http://www.i-programmer.info/news/150-training-a-education/3361-stanfords-free-computer-science-courses.html - at least 160,000 students signed up for the three, online Stanford courses last fall 2011 - http://www.silobreaker.com/sebastian-thrun-11_1561537). ... will add Thrun's new, FREE "Udacity University" - http://www.silobreaker.com/exstanford-prof-is-starting-a-totally-free-online-school-video-5_2265434868118716627 - to WUaS's Courses' http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Courses ... Great! ..


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Great ... Udacity University ...

http://www.udacity.com/

from Sebastian Thrun and David Evans

http://www.silobreaker.com/exstanford-prof-is-starting-a-totally-free-online-school-video-5_2265434868118716627 ...

which is Stanford University's Sebastian Thrun's new university ... will add to WUaS courses:

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Courses ...

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Here's the Stanford Daily with a story and further resources:
http://www.stanforddaily.com/2012/02/09/thrun-starts-web-based-university/

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One example of the back end of an online course for grades ... hope Google might orchestrate such resources ... and what can one add to generate fun and flourishing here?


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How to change approaches to grading to be of use to students, lifelong, yet still have a comparative measure of what students learn and know? How can WUaS influence this?


Stanford's 8, new, free, i-Programmer courses have taken an innovative approach ...

http://www.i-programmer.info/news/150-training-a-education/3361-stanfords-free-computer-science-courses.html



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One generator of innovation in science and technology seems to be simply conversation or dialog. WUaS has subjects on Dialog & and the Conference Method (vis-a-vis Reed College's, esp.) - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Conference_Method_of_Teaching_and_Learning - for open teaching and learning, as wiki ... hop into a Google Hangout, for example, and talk (or make music - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Music - together) ... about whatever you'd like :)



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