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Don't Go Back to School: A handbook for learning anything by Kio Stark — Kickstarter
A book from a grad school dropout/grad school teacher:
People who learn things independently develop strategies and infrastructure to get all the things they would get if they were going to school.
teaching  school  culture  book 
9 weeks ago by gordonbrander
Udacity - Educating the 21st Century
We believe university-level education can be both high quality and low cost. Using the economics of the Internet, we've connected some of the greatest teachers to hundreds of thousands of students all over the world.
teaching  school  disruption 
february 2012 by gordonbrander
Coursera
An online CompSci course started by a Stanford professor.
stanford  teaching  school  disruption  compsci  development 
february 2012 by gordonbrander
Columbia J-School and Stanford Eng Nab $30M Joint Gift - Kara Swisher - Media - AllThingsD
Helen Gurley Brown has given Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism and Stanford University’s School of Engineering $30 million to create a bi-coastal Institute of Media Innovation.
journalism  web  development  school 
january 2012 by gordonbrander
Andrew Ng's homepage
Director, Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab
Associate Professor
Computer Science Department
Department of Electrical Engineering (by courtesy)
Stanford University
teaching  development  school 
january 2012 by gordonbrander
Computer Science 101
Nick Parlante is teaching a Comp Sci 101 course at Stanford.
school  teaching  development  python 
january 2012 by gordonbrander
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs: MIT Press
They put the whole book online!
development  pattern  learn  book  school  teaching  lisp  compsci 
january 2012 by gordonbrander
I am Salman Khan founder of Khan Academy-AMA : IAmA
Salman Khan does an AMA on Reddit. The author of the standard textbook on Quantum Computing volunteers a course. The internet at its best.
interview  school  teaching  disruption 
december 2011 by gordonbrander
Mozilla Open Badges
The flagship site for the project. It's supported by the MacArthur foundation.
opensource  school  teaching 
october 2011 by gordonbrander
Badges/infrastructure-tech-docs - MozillaWiki
A wiki page on the Open Badge project. The infrastructure is written in Node/Express, so building an API gateway might be a good end-of-term project for students.
api  opensource  school  teaching 
october 2011 by gordonbrander
Mozilla Launches Open Badges Project | The Mozilla Blog
A fun merit badge alternative to grading that can cover a more diverse range of topics and approaches.
school  teaching  opensource 
october 2011 by gordonbrander
Scala School
Twitter's curriculum on Scala.
development  scala  teaching  learn  school 
september 2011 by gordonbrander
MIT Launches New Center for Mobile Learning - MIT Media Relations
MIT to take over Google's App Inventor as part of a new "center for mobile learning".
The Center's first activity will focus on App Inventor for Android, a programming system that makes it easy for learners to create mobile apps for Android smart phones by visually fitting together puzzle piece-shaped "programming blocks" in a web browser.
mobile  web  android  development  school  bdw2011 
august 2011 by gordonbrander
College from scratch - Scratch Wiki
Clay Shirky asks, "what would college look like if you could design it from scratch?"
wiki  journalism  school 
august 2011 by gordonbrander
P2PU (beta) | HTML 5 Introduction
More possibly useful course material from P2PU
school  teaching  bdw2011  web  html 
july 2011 by gordonbrander
P2PU (beta) | Beginning Game Development with HTML 5
From P2PU. Would love to mine some of this content if we get this far.
bdw2011  teaching  school  web  javascript  canvas  html 
july 2011 by gordonbrander
The New Inquiry - The History of Dialogue: Other People's Papers
A dialog between a teacher and a ghostwriter that will write your papers, for a fee.
culture  school  writing 
june 2011 by gordonbrander
Harvard dropouts from the class of 1969 | Harvard Magazine Jul-Aug 2010
school  business  learn  philosophy 
june 2011 by gordonbrander
d.school news
Stanford d.school's blog.
blog  school  teaching  design  bdw2011 
may 2011 by gordonbrander
mobile + africa - Stanford d.school news
"Starting in April, Stanford d.school students from a diverse array of disciplines – including computer science, medicine, business, law, education – worked with computer science students at the University of Nairobi to identify the design needs of health care providers and low-income mobile phone users in Kenya."
mobile  design  school  bdw2011 
may 2011 by gordonbrander
Stanford Institute of Design | d.school | home
Standford's school for design with an interactive/digital focus.
design  school 
may 2011 by gordonbrander
Khan Academy
Open courseware for mathematics. 10-minute classes on single topics. Clever.
school  math  teaching  opensource  bdw2011  disruption 
february 2011 by gordonbrander
Quick Cite for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad on the iTunes App Store
Scan book barcodes -> generate proper bibliography.
app  school  ios 
february 2011 by gordonbrander
P2PU - Peer 2 Peer University / Course Design Handbook
Syllabus and course planning resources, originally written for Mozilla's School of Webcraft. This is a great resource for organizing remote learning.
development  school  teaching  bdw2011 
january 2011 by gordonbrander
p2pu School of Webcraft
Actual courseware for Mozilla's School of Webcraft.
development  design  mozilla  opensource  teaching  school  web  bdw2011 
january 2011 by gordonbrander
School of Webcraft | Drumbeat
Open courseware for all sorts of web-related fields. Crowdsourced remote teaching. Totally free.
opensource  mozilla  development  learn  school  teaching  bdw2011 
january 2011 by gordonbrander
Valedictorian Speaks Out Against Schooling in Graduation Speech
school  journalism 
august 2010 by gordonbrander
Design Is History
The history of design, in website form: 1450-Present.
design  art  history  learn  school 
june 2010 by gordonbrander
Zotero
"Zotero is a free, easy-to-use Firefox extension to help you collect, manage, cite, and share your research sources"
firefox  plugin  learn  school  opensource 
march 2010 by gordonbrander
Graphic Design: The New Basics
Textbook recommended by Brian Liester. Much of the material is available online.
art  design  school  learn 
march 2010 by gordonbrander
Google: Teaching Kids To Code
Might be worth looking into when we hit the PHP component of the class.
development  learn  school  film 
february 2010 by gordonbrander
Interaction design, usability assessment
Outline on Wikiversity
school  design  learn 
february 2010 by gordonbrander
It's all about interaction: Drawing Ideas and Communicating Interaction
A video on Wireframing interaction in design.
ui  design  illustration  wireframe  school  interactive1 
february 2010 by gordonbrander
Quisition: The Online Flashcard System
...by Pinax people Elderion.
django  school  learn 
january 2010 by gordonbrander
Glacier / Island / Storm
Class description: "The purpose of this studio is to look at naturally occurring processes and forms—specifically, glaciers, islands, and storms—and to ask how these might be subject to architectural re-design." The idea is to study, and symbiotically harness natural processes to create hospitable environs without the use of fossil fuel.
school  architecture  design  experiment 
january 2010 by gordonbrander
Dartmouth: Pattern
Class syllabus on pattern in math and art
design  pattern  culture  school  learn 
november 2009 by gordonbrander
Mountain Workshops 2009 - Stories from Murray, Kentucky
"The Mountain Workshops are three concurrent programs, the Photojournalism Workshop, Picture Editing Workshop and the Multimedia Workshop. The workshops offers a hands-on learning experience in documentary-style photojournalism." Really nice site.
journalism  school 
november 2009 by gordonbrander
How to Write a Winning Ivy League Essay
Worth the read. Good tips like, "If you're going to tackle a global issue, make it personal"
writing  school 
november 2009 by gordonbrander
NewsInnovation Wiki
Run by the CUNY journalism school.
journalism  wiki  business  school  learn 
september 2009 by gordonbrander
Typedia: A Shared Encyclopedia of Typefaces
"Like IMDB for typefaces". An anyone-can-contribute reference to learning about type and typefaces.
typography  community  crowdsourcing  school  learn 
august 2009 by gordonbrander
Kathmandu: Dreaming of University
A Kiva microloan success in Nepal
nepal  travel  school  microfinance  community 
august 2009 by gordonbrander
Bryan Leister
Really great illustration. Teaches at CU Denver.
school  art  person  portfolio  illustration  newmedia 
august 2009 by gordonbrander
NASA Images
So every photo, image or illustration NASA has ever created is in the public domain. This is a good place to get ahold of those images for design purposes.
design  photoshop  image  space  resource  science  publicdomain  free  school  learn  film 
may 2009 by gordonbrander
A/V Geeks: PSA`
Hundreds of public-service-announcement type videos from the 50s through the 70s. Nice raw footage for montage, fair-use?
resource  media  retro  school  learn  film 
march 2009 by gordonbrander
100+ Open Courseware Collections for Aspiring Web Devs
Too...much...learning...
development  design  web  opensource  school  code  learn 
february 2009 by gordonbrander
smARThistory
An interactive history of art. This is what interactive learning is all about: a great resource that encourages you to wander; a museum made of bytes. Also: Brilliant use of accordion for eras of art history.
resource  art  design  school  learn  museum  research  history 
february 2009 by gordonbrander
Stanford iPhone Cocoa Programming
Full class notes, syllabus, from Stanford's iPhone dev class.
resource  development  cocoa  stanford  univeristy  teaching  osx  course  school  learn  ios 
january 2009 by gordonbrander
Mindy McAdams Syllabi Index - University of Florida
All of her syllabi in one place, free.
journalism  media  multimedia  syllabus  teaching  newmedia  school  course  learn  news  organization 
january 2009 by gordonbrander
Harvard Classics (Bookshelf) - Gutenberg
A curated list of classics, free from Project Gutenberg
wiki  book  download  free  media  school  learn 
december 2008 by gordonbrander
Mindy McAdam's Journalists' Toolkit 1 - Syllabus
A syllabus for her journalism class. Gold!
journalism  media  multimedia  communication  blog  web  newmedia  writing  school  learn 
december 2008 by gordonbrander
MLA Citation Style Guide
writing  school  learn 
october 2008 by gordonbrander

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