Sunday, March 23, 2014

Education of the future?

MOOCs (or Massive Open Online Courses) appear regularly in the news, as technology revolutionizing education. We previously spoke about coursera, and 2U that offers a cloud-based software-as-a-service platform which allows their partners to educate and engage students globally. We spoke extensively about creativity and also posted a great TED talk - A Crash Course in Creativity - by Tina Seelig, Professor of the Practice in the Dept of Management Science and Engineering (MS&E) at Stanford University. At Stanford + Connects she shares the challenges, surprises and opportunities of teaching her class on creativity, sharing some of the assignments and results. This time she teaches a class with more than 44,000 students...

Keep in mind: Tina Seelig is now offering an online course on music and creativity—for free! (starting on April 2nd)
-- read more HERE

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