Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy – Alexandre Dumas (1844)
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Does eLearning kill creativity and make traditional universities disappear? Or should we start to view online education and its advantages as inevitable?
Stanford professor Daphne Koller is making the college experience available to anyone through her startup, Coursera (cofounded by Andrew Ng), an innovative model for online learning. By doing this, she is enticing top universities to put their courses online for free — not just as a service, but as a way to research how people learn.
She believes that a new model—in which information is given online and classrooms are used for interactive experiential learning rather than for lecturing—could help to improve education.
Discover Lonsdale’s approach in her TED talk.
Talent is made up for a third of instinct, a third of memory, and the last third of will – Carlo Alberto Pisani Dossi, Italian writer and diplomat (1849 – 1910)
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According to Lolly Daskal (), to stay on top you need to keep innovating.
These 7 habits will help you:
1) Constantly connect the dots, in order to gain new insight and see relationships that were invisible before;
2) Commit to asking questions, by asking new questions you get new perspective;
3) Actively try new things, the real innovation is not in seeking new horizons but seeing the horizon in a new light;
4) Find points of intersection with Others, for ideas to germinate a diverse set of perspectives, thinkers, questioners, and doers is required;
5) Have a sense of purpose, great innovators are powered by their passion and use it as a sense of purpose;
6) Cross-pollinate ideas, creativity happens when two things collide to create a whole new idea;
7) Make innovation a daily routine, if you want to become a master of anything, it takes discipline and commitment;
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The Diplo calendar 2015 realized by Stefano Baldi and Ed Gelbstein presents a selection of the wisdom accumulated by humanity over the centuries that has stood the test of time and remains as valid as ever. The hope is that it will inspire you and lead you to explore the thoughts of the people who in one way or another have changed human history for the better.
For the month of September the selected quotation is by Louis Pasteur (1822-1895)- the French chemist and microbiologist renowned for his discoveries of the principles of vaccination, microbial fermentation and pasteurization.
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The word utopia is often used to label what we don’t want, can’t, or aren’t brave enough to do – Adriano Olivetti
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I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work – Thomas Edison
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I’m droggy. I’m congested. And I’m lacking sleep. I feel like I’ve been in this state forever. But it’s only been a day. Image via Creative Commons You ever been there? If you’re like most leaders, you have. Leaders Lack Sleep In a Gallop study, research shows that, on average, 40% of the US get…
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