Tag Archives: Alternative education

Julie Young: Disruptive Innovator For Students

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Julie Young’s guiding vision for the Florida Virtual School (FLVS) began in 1996 as she wrote the word “student” at the center of a piece of paper and then asked a series of questions of the team...

Salman Khan, The Most Influential Person In Education Technology

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I have had the good fortune of speaking with good number of the leaders in education technology today. Since so many of these players have emerged from academe, the competition between companies is...
    






Finding A Mentor Is Easier Than You Think

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January is National Mentoring Month, so I decided focus this blog on ways to find career mentors. Finding career mentors may actually be easier than you think, but asking someone you don’t know to...
    






Salman Khan, The Most Influential Person In Education Technology

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I have had the good fortune of speaking with good number of the leaders in education technology today. Since so many of these players have emerged from academe, the competition between companies is...
    






Lessons From the CEO Of The First Ever MOOC

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There has been much press for the massive open online courses or MOOCs, including in my series of interviews to date with Sebastian Thrun and Daphne Koller, CEOs of Udacity and Coursera respectively...