About SCIL – Sydney Centre for Innovation in Learning. A Vision for Excellence Sydney Centre for Innovation in Learning actively promotes excellence in education by providing new learning opportunities for students and future-focused Professional Development for teachers. Established as the research and innovation unit of Northern Beaches Christian School (Sydney, Australia), SCIL runs a range of programs and research projects that seek to transform educational thinking and practice both at NBCS and in the wider educational community. All of the programs and research projects that are run by SCIL are firmly based in the classrooms and day-to-day learning environment at NBCS. Staff are dedicated to creating a learning culture that promotes the highest standards for academics, whilst nurturing and caring for each student. A Journey of Transformation NBCS was founded in 1981, and welcomed Stephen Harris as principal in 1999.
SCIL Leadership Team. Une minute pour comprendre. University of the People – The world’s first tuition-free online university. TEDxJuanDeFuca - Taylor Conroy - How to Build a School in 3 Hours. THNK. The Amsterdam School of Creative Leadership. Iversity: Social Network for Learning. By New-Startups.com on under Education A couple weeks ago we talked about Coursekit, a platform for creating a compelling and social way for professors and students to communicate outside of the classroom.
This type of platform fosters communications and technology usage that has been lacking in the realm of academia. Iversity is a new cloud-based higher education course-management platform that merges an online workspace and a social network. With a team of highly decorated advisors, tech and management directors and developed by an interdisciplinary and international team of 20 young graduates, iversity is providing tools for academic collaboration and interaction that standard e-learning systems do not provide (e.g. live pdf-annotation, collaboration across institutions).
By bridging the communication gap across institutional boundaries, iversity is reviving the original vision of the Internet: to facilitate communication within academia. Watch the video below to see how it works. MFA in Design for Social Innovation. UWC Atlantic College - International Baccalaureate.