An interesting study was published in Health Affairs last year finding a fairly stark difference in life expectancy based on years of education (emphasis added). In this article we update estimates of the impact of race and education on past and present life expectancy, examine trends in disparities from 1990 through 2008, and place observed…
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Tapping Into the World of Comics is an interesting SlideShare.net presentation on using online tools to create comic books in the classroom. Some very good ideas in there.
In general, I tend to think of Great Britain and Europe as significantly more secular than the United States, which is why I always get a bit weirded out reading op-eds like George Pitcher’s defense of compulsory religious education in the United Kingdom. The thing is that compulsory education is already the norm — although…
Fathom is an online repository of online learning maintained by Columbia University.
Color me unimpressed with Blackboard’s latest move in its ongoing war to kill innovation in the courseware market by patenting obvious CMS features in the education market. Blackboard is now promising that it won’t go after non-profits and universities who develop their own internal or open sourced courseware. But it is still pursuing actions against…
Probably one of the more absurd recent software patents has to be Blackboard Inc.’s successful application for a patent on “learning management systems,” and its attempts to strongarm competitors by charging them with patent infringement. Blackboard Inc. owns two “learning management systems” — Blackboard and WebCT. Those are easily the two most popular commercial course…