"Eye On The World"
Education
Open Source Textbook Maker: FlatWorld Knowledge funded with $8 Million
Mar 24th
Free Online College Textbooks
Flat World is the world’s first publisher of open source commercial textbooks. Flat World’s textbooks are written by world-class authors. The company makes its books available as free web-hosted textbooks. It earns revenue and pays its authors royalties by providing students with options to purchase print-on-demand soft cover textbooks, audio textbooks, and self-print individual chapters at a fraction of the cost of traditional textbooks. The company enhances the learning experience by offering low-cost digital study aids like mp3 study guides, interactive web quizzes, and digital flashcards. Faculty prefer the open-source approach employed by Flat World because it gives More >
Homeschoolers – You Will Survive
Oct 8th
This video via: Pages of Our Life and: Math-U-BLOG
This is a great light-hearted video about the challenges, trials and tribulations of homeschooling.
Most of our Founding Fathers were “home-schooled” (not schooled by a government school system.)
Just as it took courage and persistence to do what our Founding Fathers did, it takes courage and persistence for homeschoolers to educate their children on their own, outside the government school system.
In 1996 my wife and I determined to take the responsibility for schooling our boys and preparing them for life. We have homeschooled our two boys all the way through school (now in 9th and More >
2 Million Minutes – the world IS flatter
Jul 14th
Certainly in secondary education. If you play (too much) – you pay. Thomas L. Friedman, the New York Times Foreign Affairs columnist, in his 2005 book “The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century” said that in the early 21st century the the world is flat in terms of commerce and competition.
The documentary film 2 Million Minutes – A Global Examination, profiles six high school students from China, India and the US and argues that US education is lagging behind.
Students have 2 million minutes from the beginning of eighth grade to completion of high school to build the intellectual More >
