ShowMe - The Online Learning Community. 22 Ways to Create Compelling Content: Infographic. Pics4Learning | Free photos for education. - e-Literate. By Beth Harris, Ph.D. and Steven Zucker, Ph.D., Deans, Art and History, Khan Academy Our schools and libraries are being radically re-imagined for the digital age, but what about our museums? The New York Public Library, for example, is bravely (and controversially) rethinking its Fifth Avenue flagship building. Last month, MIT and Harvard announced edX, a partnership to offer free online courses, and last fall, Stanford offered three massive open online courses (MOOC) to hundreds of thousands of students for free, and Khan Academy provided 6.1 million unique users with free instruction in March 2012 alone.
Museums, on the other hand, have remained largely insular and focused on their institutional identity. So perhaps it’s no surprise that the most recent digital innovation comes not from the museums themselves but from Google, which launched the second iteration of the Google Art Project last month. This is a really big deal. There are some hopeful signs. Google+ Comments. Collections - Google Art Project.