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Risk management

Example of risk management : A NASA model showing areas at high risk from impact for the International Space Station. Risk management is the identification, assessment, and prioritization of risks (defined in ISO 31000 as the effect of uncertainty on objectives , whether positive or negative) followed by coordinated and economical application of resources to minimize, monitor, and control the probability and/or impact of unfortunate events [ 1 ] or to maximize the realization of opportunities. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk_management
http://21centuryedtech.wordpress.com/2011/11/30/part-1-flipping-the-classroom-12-resources-to-keep-you-on-your-feet/

Part 1: Flipping The Classroom? … 12 Resources To Keep You On Your Feet

i 6 Votes Welcome to another post rich in resources. If you have come here looking for links that will guide you to videos and multimedia to use in a Flipped Classroom that is coming in a future post.
MacSchool THE 12-year-olds filing into Courtney Cadwell's classroom at Egan Junior High in Los Altos, a leafy suburb of Silicon Valley, each take a white MacBook from a trolley, log on to a website called KhanAcademy.org and begin doing maths exercises. They will not get a lecture from Ms Cadwell, because they have already viewed, at home, various lectures as video clips on KhanAcademy (given by Salman Khan, its founder). And Ms Cadwell, logged in as a “coach”, can see exactly who has watched which.

Electronic education: Flipping the classroom

http://www.economist.com/node/21529062
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Teaching methods: An alternative vote

http://www.economist.com/node/18678925
http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/07/ff_khan/

How Khan Academy Is Changing the Rules of Education | Magazine

<img alt="Matthew Carpenter, age 10, has completed 642 inverse trigonometry problems at KhanAcademy.org." src="/magazine/wp-content/images/19-08/ff_khan_f.jpg" title="Court Jones caricature of author Ben Austen" width="660" height="440" /> Matthew Carpenter, age 10, has completed 642 inverse trigonometry problems at KhanAcademy.org. Photo: Joe Pugliese “This,” says Matthew Carpenter, “is my favorite exercise.” I peer over his shoulder at his laptop screen to see the math problem the fifth grader is pondering. It’s an inverse trigonometric function: cos -1 (1) = ?