Remote Sensing: the online guides. The Online Remote Sensing Guide consists of two web-based instructional modules that use multimedia technology and the dynamic capabilities of the web. These resources incorporate text, colorful diagrams, and animations to introduce selected topics in the field of remote sensing. Selected pages link to (or will soon link to) relevant current weather products, allowing the user to apply what has been learned in the instructional modules to real-time weather data. Available modules include:
Rethinking Curricula for the 21st Century #1. This is reblogged from Here's a very remarkable initiative -- a global curriculum reform movement. It seems a revolution is brewing in some parts of mainstream higher education and this seems a significant piece: A Science Daily article "Higher Education Curricula Not Keeping Pace With Societal, Tech Changes" describes this "global movement to abolish the archaic disciplinary isolation and static teaching practices of the 19th and 20th centuries, and replace them with pedagogy that addresses the complexity and diversity of perspective of a global community in the 21st century.
" The epicenter of this movement is A group of academics -- from college students to university presidents -- have created a Manifesto (see below) that has so far been endorsed by two universities in Europe and one in the U.S (Arizona State University, Jacobs University Bremen, and Leuphana Universität Lüneburg). Thiel Fellowship. Academy of You | Find and Create Online Courses. The Ultimate 6-Week Startup Crash Course by @profitably. If I would have known just one thing...