40+ Tips to Improve your Grammar and Punctuation After all these years you finally have the courage and opportunity to write the email announcing that you and you alone have single handedly saved the company from utter disaster. You’re excited, you type it, you spell check it, and you hit send.Everything is great except that your gold star memo has dangling modifiers, double negatives and run-on sentences colliding with each other. Now I am no grammar whiz but I know a good resource when I see it. Purdue University maintains an purdue.edu/" target="_blank">online writing lab and I spent some time digging through it. Learn and enjoy! • A or An? • Adjective or Adverb? • Adjectives with Countable and Uncountable Nouns • Using Articles ( A/An/The ): with 2 exercises and answer keys Nouns • A Little Help with Capitals • Count and NonCount Nouns (with Plurals, Articles, and Quantity Words): with 2 exercises and answer keys • Count and NonCount Nouns (with Articles and Adjectives): with exercise and answer key Prepositions Pronouns • Pronoun Case Commas
How to Spend $100 Million to Really Save Education Khan Academy Dans la salle de classe du futur, les résultats ne progressent pas Dans le cadre d’une série sur le « pari éducatif high-tech » (dans laquelle notamment plusieurs experts américains tentent d’apporter leur vision sur ce à quoi ressemblera l’école dans 10 ans), Matt Richtel, pour le New York Times s’est rendu dans le district scolaire pilote de Kyrene en Arizona : un secteur où tous les élèves utilisent des tableaux blancs interactifs et des ordinateurs à l’école. Depuis 2005, le district a investi 33 millions de dollars pour moderniser ses écoles. Ici, c’est la nature même de la classe, du rapport à l’enseignant qui a été transformé : l’enseignant circule entre les élèves qui apprennent à leurs rythmes sur leurs ordinateurs. Au profit de qui se fait la surenchère technologique à l’école ? Image : Le graphique de l’évolution des dépenses et des résultats du district de Kyrene dans l’Arizona réalisé par le New York Times. La poussée des dépenses technologiques intervient alors que les écoles doivent faire de durs choix financiers. Les métriques en question
5 Simple Ways to Increase Your Intelligence Your brain needs exercise just like a muscle. If you use it often and in the right ways, you will become a more skilled thinker and increase your ability to focus. But if you never use your brain, or abuse it with harmful chemicals, your ability to think and learn will deteriorate. Here are 5 simple ways anyone can squeeze a bit more productivity out of the old gray matter. 1. Don’t you feel drained after a couple hours of TV? When you feel like relaxing, try reading a book instead. 2. 3. Once you get used to reading challenging books, I think you’ll find that you aren’t tempted to go back to page-turners. 4. If you have the opportunity, take 10-20 minute naps when you are hit with a wave of drowsiness. 5. I’m not saying you need to sit on the floor cross-legged and chant ‘ommm’. Conclusion – I hope you aren’t disappointed that none of the techniques I’ve proposed are revolutionary.
5 ways Colleges and Universities are Turning Google+ into the Ultimate Recruiting Network Despite lingering on the cusp of mainstream use and popularity, Google+ brand pages have opened up a niche door for universities and colleges to engage and entice potential students. Mashable recently highlighted 17 universities currently using Google+ pages ( and their early procedures to attract an audience and increase interactions. After researching more than 150 universities, colleges, university services, and alumni associations, it’s clear that many are putting the network to efficient use. Google+ allows universities to offer a one-stop shop for insights and academic highlights, and even provides personal interaction through Google Hangouts. Here are five ways upper education utilizes Google+ to draw attention to all they have to offer current and future students. 1. When choosing a university, students and parents like to see a running record of achievements from both the professors and students. 2. 3. 4. 5.
5 Ways to Give Yourself an Education That Kicks the Crap Out of the One You Got in School 5 Ways to Give Yourself an Education That Kicks the Crap Out of the One You Got in School One of the biggest reasons that people are denied the privilege of education is because they can’t afford it. However, today we live in a world where knowledge and information are at our finger tips like never before. Technology has leveled the playing field so that anybody with an interest and an internet connection can receive a world class education. Bloggers, podcasters, search engines and digital content creators of all types of have made it possible for us to learn virtually anything we want to even if we don’t have the money. Self Motivation is Not Optional Taking this kind of approach to educating yourself requires an extremely high degree of self motivation. 1. There are a handful of traditional education institutions that have started to embrace this trend. 2. In a recent feature, the CBS Sunday morning show said that there were approximately 50 million active blogs online. 3. 4. 5.
What Three Big EdTech Investments Say About The Future Of Education That the media has recently run a spate of grumpy articles about the role of technology in education does not surprise veteran entrepreneur Jessie Woolley-Wilson, chief executive of Dreambox Learning. "Frankly, there’s been a very long history of investment in edtech that has fallen short of expectations," she says. So true--and yet, so true of so many other technologies, too. Remember Apple’s original Newton? The trio of failed e-books from around 2000? This past week saw venture and private investors grabbing a pen to write checks to support three significant edtech trends: the move toward supporting Common Core standards, the use of "adaptive" learning technologies, and an increase in social media in education. The underlying theme, says Gloria Lee, chief operating officer of NewSchools Venture Fund, is about making education truly personalized for learners. Expect to see these trends become even bigger in 2012: Common Core That said, switching curriculum is never easy. Adaptive Learning
Skip the Tuition: 100 Free Podcasts from the Best Colleges in the World We’ve shown you how to take online classes for free, and now we’re helping you take free to a whole new level. For students enrolled in online colleges that offer laptops, these free, high-quality Podcasts can be an especially good way to make use of school computers. Even the best online colleges can keep you glued to your computer, but Podcasts grant even greater mobility than online classes. Stanford Stanford offers free podcast downloads via iTunes. MIT’s courses feature either audio or video, sometimes both, and are available as podcasts by department feeds. Harvard Much of the media available from Harvard is presented as one full podcast, but we’ve hand picked a few of their courses and recurring series that you should look for. Queen’s University This Canadian university offers a few iTunesU courses in engineering and social issues. UCLA has BruinCasts for a number of courses online. University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine Yale More Courses
MBA by Gaming: MIT Launches Free Online Simulator - Education Want to learn MBA management skills and strategies for free? Thanks to "Platform Wars," a video game simulator created by MIT’s Sloan School of Management, anyone can learn elements of a business school education by portraying an executive at a video game console manufacturer online. The simulator has been used for the past four years in business management classes taught by professor John Sterman. A user playing an executive Nintendo, for example, might be tasked with figuring out how how to help the Wii beat out competition from Microsoft's XBox. The ultimate goal is to strategize against your competitor to maximize cumulative profit over 10 years. “Platform Wars” proved to be so popular at the business school that in late November, MIT—the home of the renowned OpenCourseWare program—decided to make the simulator available to the public on the MIT Sloane Teaching Innovation Resources website.
In 2011: How the Internet Revolutionized Education As connection speeds increase and the ubiquity of the Web pervades, free education has never been so accessible. An Internet connection gives lifelong learners the tools to become autodidacts, eschewing exorbitant tuition and joining the ranks of other self-taught great thinkers in history such as Albert Einstein, Alexander Graham Bell, Paul Allen and Ernest Hemingway. We can be learning all the time now, whenever we want, and wherever we want. Insider How the Internet is Revolutionizing Education This was our seminal piece on online education, which includes interviews with UC Berkeley professors and CEOs and Founders of today’s most disruptive education startups. Stay in or drop out? There’s a lot of debate right now about whether or not paying for a degree is worth it, a particular problem facing entrepreneurs. How Technology Has Changed Education Skillshare lets you learn anything from anyone In NYC, Coursehorse is changing the way you search for classes News Apps Coding
Want To Win The Talent War In Emerging Markets? Start Recruiting Women In the three years since Goldman Sachs launched its business in Brazil, growth has exceeded all expectations. Head count in the São Paulo headquarters has grown from 25 to 250, and Valentino Carlotti, president of Goldman Sachs Bank in Brazil, predicts it will double again in the next two to three years. So what concerns him? "The growth opportunity is huge,” says Carlotti. Carlotti’s concerns are shared by corporate leaders and talent managers throughout the emerging world, where finding, keeping, and maximizing top talent is more than an important issue: for many organizations, it’s now an urgent imperative. With Western countries already weakened by a deep recession, multinational corporations from all countries are pinning their hopes for future growth on developing markets. Among burgeoning economies, the dynamic BRIC markets stand out for the speed of their growth and their long-term potential. These women are highly ambitious; they want to make the most of their credentials.
Blog - Etude sur l'utilisation des réseaux sociaux dans le recrutement et la recherche d'emploi Après la première grande enquête RegionsJob sur le recrutement et les réseaux sociaux, réalisée l’an passé, nous sommes heureux de vous présenter les résultats de la deuxième édition de cette étude. Quels sont les moyens utilisés actuellement pour la recherche d’emploi et le recrutement ? Est-ce que les réseaux sociaux, dont on parle énormément, sont devenus des outils incontournables ? Qui les utilise vraiment ? Comment sont envisagées les problématiques d’e-réputation et d’identité numérique, aussi bien pour les personnes en recherche d’emploi que pour les employeurs ? Telles sont les questions auxquelles ont répondu 2526 candidats et 379 recruteurs, permettant de dresser un tableau des problématiques actuelles liées au recrutement. Les moyens utilisés pour le recrutement Qu’il s’agisse des candidats ou des recruteurs, chacun utilise plusieurs outils pour le recrutement. Les réseaux sociaux sont beaucoup moins utilisés par les candidats que les recruteurs. Pour quels résultats ?