David Bornstein’s excellent book How to Change the World, which is about social entrepreneurs, the citizen sector, and the work of the Ashoka Foundation, concludes with a very interesting discussion of the use of metrics and analytics to value social
Teaching with simulations
PhET is is an incredible collection of interactive simulations for math and science from the University of Colorado at Boulder. They are high quality, research-based, free, and open licensed. And they offer accompanying teaching resources as well. If you aren’t
Open Ed week webinars
In case you missed them, here are the archives to two great webinars about OER that were done during Open Ed week. (Note: These take a few minutes to load.) OER in K-12 Education P2PU: Peer Learning Fueled by Open
OER foreign language instruction materials
I just ran into this open collection of foreign language instruction materials from the Center for Open Educational Resources for Language Learning at the University of Texas at Austin. This includes videos and additional resources for a variety of languages
New P2PU groups seeking collaborators!
A couple weeks ago at SXSWedu, we had a session to brainstorm some new peer learning groups on P2PU. The outlines for these groups have now been turned into (preliminary) groups at P2PU, and we are looking for collaborators to