Panacea University - Home. Really Open University. p2pu | Learning for everyone, by everyone, about almost anything. Towards an OER university: Free learning for all students worldwide. From WikiEducator Media Release: Open Education Resource (OER) Foundation / UNESCO Office for Pacific States Pre-meeting SCOPE Seminar for the OER university. 16 February to 2 March 2011 - BCcampus and share the news. The meeting will focus on the OER for Assessment and Credit for Students project which aims to provide flexible pathways for learners from across the globe who have accessed open education courses to be assessed and earn formal academic credit for their work at reduced fees.
"OER is the means by which education at all levels can be more accessible, more affordable and more efficient"Phil Ker, Chief Executive of Otago Polytechnic in New Zealand The OER Foundation is collaborating with anchor founding partners Otago Polytechnic (New Zealand), the University of Southern Queensland (Australia) and Athabasca University (Canada) on the project, and welcomes the participation of the wider community. "This is not theoretical speculation, it is entirely viable. " About Otago Polytechnic. Mental Heuristics Page. A heuristic is a "rule-of-thumb", advice that helps an AI program or human think and act more efficiently by directing thinking in an useful direction. Some of these heuristics are age-old wisdom, bordering on cliche, but most are actually helpful. If you want something done, do it yourself Comment: Obviously true, and doing it is usually very good for your self esteem.
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By Kathryn Hawkins. Posted on February 06 2011 Maybe you sometimes find yourself wishing you’d spent a little more time with the books than jamming with the band back in your school days. Or, as the parent of an insatiably curious child, you’re just struggling to stay ahead of his constant questions about bugs and outer space. Is it time to head back to class? If you need the actual degree for a better job, go for it. Here are some of the best places to educate yourself without paying a single penny. MIT Open Courseware. Open Yale. Harvard Open Learning Initiative. Stanford Courses on iTunes U. UC Berkeley Webcast. Need even more of an education fix? Filed under: Arts and Culture, Liked this? Politics of education.
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OCW. Stanford - Philosopy. 1. Biography Bento (in Hebrew, Baruch; in Latin, Benedictus: all three names mean "blessed") Spinoza was born in 1632 in Amsterdam. He was the middle son in a prominent family of moderate means in Amsterdam's Portuguese-Jewish community. As a boy he had undoubtedly been one of the star pupils in the congregation's Talmud Torah school. He was intellectually gifted, and this could not have gone unremarked by the congregation's rabbis. It is possible that Spinoza, as he made progress through his studies, was being groomed for a career as a rabbi. And then, on July 27, 1656, Spinoza was issued the harshest writ of herem, or excommunication, ever pronounced by the Sephardic community of Amsterdam; it was never rescinded.
To all appearances, Spinoza was content finally to have an excuse for departing from the community and leaving Judaism behind; his faith and religious commitment were, by this point, gone. 2. The Ethics is an ambitious and multifaceted work. 2.1 God or Nature 2.3 Knowledge 3. 14 websites to make you a more intelligent person. What is Mensa? | Mensa International. Khan Academy. The Art of History: How Writing Leads to Thinking. The Art of History is a new series of articles by senior scholars who are willing to share their thoughts on, and offer advice about, some aspect of the art and craft of historical research and writing, drawing upon their own experiences in particular. The series began with Caroline Walker Bynum’s article "Teaching Scholarship". Writing is stressful. Sitting in my computer chair my neck and shoulder muscles almost immediately tense up as I dig around in my brain for the best phrase or even any coherent string of words, whether I am writing an essay like this one, a book chapter, a letter of recommendation, or an email message to a friend.
Writing is time-consuming. It’s a great way to pass the time on a long airplane flight because you lose track of the passage of time altogether. Because writing is an act that is far from completely accessible to our conscious minds, recommendations about how to write history may well be irrelevant. Humanities.