Month: May 2012
Evaluation of the OLPC Program in Perú (Una Laptop por niño)
Information via Inter-American Development Bank The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) is conducting a multi-year randomized evaluation of the impact of the OLPC project in Peru – the first rigorous attempt to examine the impact of[…]
Quest for College Accountability Produces Demand for Yet More Student Data
Article by Paul Basken published in The Chronicle of Higer Education After three years of studying ideas for measuring institutional quality, an expert panel assembled by the National Research Council delivered a 192-page report on[…]
El mundo necesita ciencia, la ciencia necesita mujeres (Programa UNESCO-L’ORÉAL)
UNESCO-L’ORÉAL Programa internacional de becas “Por las mujeres en la ciencia” El programa UNESCO – L’ORÉAL “Por las mujeres en la ciencia” es una iniciativa conjunta que busca promover la presencia de la mujer en[…]
Harvard – MIT partnership ($60M to create a Platform for Free Online Courses)
After reading this news, we remembered a certain quote by George Siemens: “[…] Education seems to be at the threshold of a very dramatic change” Article by Nick DeSantis published in The Chronicle of[…]