TEDEducation - YouTube

Posted by Owen Densmore on
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/TEDEducation-YouTube-tp7394328.html

Well, yet ANOTHER very interesting education stunt:

http://www.youtube.com/tededucation

TED is introducing life long learning sessions.

Lets see, Kahn, Stanford/Coursera, SolveForX, Udacity, MITx, ... now TED-ED!  .. and I'm sure I'm missing others ... and I'm not including the oldies but goodies like OpenCourseware and iTunesU which are not interactive.

Question: Why is this happening and why now?  Anyone got some inside scoop?

It certainly is viral .. I'm caught up in Scott Page's Model Thinking and Tim Roughgarden's Algorithms class now, and Andrew Ng's Machine Learning last semester, and loving all of them.  They do take a lot of time and effort, so its not just "bright shiny toys" .. its the real thing.

But I have absolutely NO idea why this "punctuated equilibrium", or "tipping point" is happening just now.  Maybe there are some weird VC's lurking under this all?  Let me know what you think.

   -- Owen

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