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Topic: Looking for contributors toward developing this book on "user driven learning": ok that deals predominantly with health care. You could reflect on your learning experiences right from childhood, your teachers who inspired you and your continued prowess utilizing web 2.0 The aim is to chiefly inspire the audience with your feeling and also to a smaller extent inform them of your subject but most importantly make them recognize the sign posts in life long learning. Please find the details in this web link: http://www.igi-global.com/requests/details.asp?ID=657 There is also a chapter template available online at: http://www.igi-global.com/development/author_info/ Appreciate your help and guidance in formulating strategies toward this book and look forward to your response. Feel free to share it with other potential contributors. We can expand in volumes to accomodate a greater number of quality contributions. Do let me know if you have any more queries. I understand that the above is very different from any book that is usual for medical students or the healthcare community and so understanding the requirements is challenging to say the least. I can also forward some pdfs of possible sample chapters (already published as articles) and a sample article on "user driven healthcare" if interested. Warm regards, rakesh http://peoplesgroup.academia.edu/RakeshBiswas…; Added by Rakesh Biswas at 8:16pm on August 15, 2009

Topic: Dennis Littky Talks About Big Picture Schools: rovidence. He is nationally known for his extensive work in secondary education in urban, suburban, and rural settings, spanning over 40 years. As an educator, Dennis has a reputation for working up against the edge of convention and out of the box, turning tradition on its head and delivering concrete results. Presently, Dennis’s focus is to expand the Big Picture Learning design to include college-level accreditation through College Unbound, where students will have the opportunity to earn a B.A. and advanced certifications through a critically challenging, real-world based, and entrepreneurial course of study. Dr. Littky holds a double Ph.D. in psychology and education from the University of Michigan. His work as a principal at Thayer Junior/Senior High School in Winchester, N.H. as featured in an NBC movie, A Town Torn Apart based on the book Doc: The Story of Dennis Littky and His Fight for a Better School. In 2004, he (along with Samantha Grabelle) published a book about the Big Picture Learning design entitled The Big Picture: Education is Everyone’s Business, which went on to win the Association of Educational Publishers’ top award for nonfiction in 2005. In 2003, Dennis was recognized as a leader in the small schools movement and awarded the Harold W. McGraw Jr. Prize in Education. Fast Company ranked Littky #4 among the top 50 Innovators of 2004, and the George Lucas Educational Foundation recently selected both Dennis and Elliot as part of the Daring Dozen – the Twenty Most Daring Educators in the World. Web: http://www.bigpicture.org/…; Added by Steve Hargadon at 10:43am on October 4, 2009

Blog Post: It takes a village.....Build the village: I've led a volunteer-based, non-school tutor/mentor program in Chicago for more than 30 years where we connect inner city kids with volunteers who…; Added by Daniel Bassill at 8:38am on January 10, 2009

Comment on: Topic 'Degree-based Education is doomed... and so are your degrees!': om's comment about "whoever has the gold makes the rules" is where the change will occur. Right now many parents are already opting out of the existing public education system, either to send their kids to private schools, or to home school them. Many more are beginning to send their kids to the growing number of charter schools, funded with a combination of public and private dollars. This is just putting the education choice into the hands of the consumer, who is the parent, and the student. Right now public schools, private schools and charter schools are just different versions of "thinking inside the box" where there is structured curriculum where kids get some sort of credential (report card/diploma) that indicates they have mastered enough information to move to the next level. The credibility of these indicators can be part of a thousand other discussions. So far, the signature on the report card/diploma for a K-12 student comes from the traditional school. I think the first major change/breakthrough will come with the signature on the diploma comes from a local college/or a distant college/ that offers the curriculum through the Internet and contracts with a variety of traditional and non-traditional groups to mentor students into learning from this curriculum. Such groups could be the current mix of public/private/charter schools, home school parents, or a new group of competitors, consisting of local parent networks, local church/business/parent groups, the Boys & Girls Clubs, or any place with access to the Internet where adults can help kids learn from the content provided by who every puts their name on the diploma. As long as there is "credibility" in that institution, this can happen....IF, the purchasing decision is in the hands of the consumer (parent) and not the bureacracy (government/local schools system). How this affects the institutions of higher education, with huge expense commitments for the buildings on their campuses, remains to be seen. However, I suspect there are task forces trying to figure ways to stay relevant, and competitive, in this new era.…; Added by Daniel Bassill at 12:57pm on July 3, 2010

Blog Post: Educational Networks need to be Simple and Future Proofed for Today’s Virtual Learning Environments: Originally Published on The…; Added by Anthony Sargon at 7:21am on May 2, 2014

Blog Post: Is it STILL morally not OK to write custom essays?

The former “essay mill” (now essay writing advisory) website publisher Bogdan Lytvyn questions the moral aspect of academic ghostwriting…

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Blog Post: Is it STILL morally not OK to write custom essays?

An “essay writing service” website publisher Bogdan Lytvyn questions the moral aspect of academic ghostwriting from the industry’s…

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Comment on: Topic 'Welcome!': d such a program since 1975, first as a volunteer while holding various advertising roles with the Montgomery Ward corporation, then since 1990 as the founder and president of Cabrini Connections and Tutor/Mentor Connection. I use maps to try to break the education conversation into two parts, education for kids in poverty, and education for all other kids. For kids living in big city poverty the issues of coming to school and learning often take a back seat to issues of surviving. For those who don't live in big city poverty, it's hard to grasp this and thus a discussion of education strategies often overlooks the social and emotional needs, and the need for a broader base of adult mentoring, than what is informally available to most other kids. I also use these maps to focus attention, and resources, on all of the poverty neighborhoods in Chicago where tutor/mentor programs are needed, in much the same way a business might use maps to put stores where there are customers, or to try to grow market dominance. Without a map we could be looking at list of 100 great programs, or 100 great schools, and still be missing most of the neighborhoods with high poverty, high drop out rates, and poor schools. I also have created a web library of links to articles and other tutor/mentor programs, sort of "all that is known" so that when I'm in a discussion, I'm not just sharing what I've learned, but what hundreds, or thousands of other people have learned, and continue to learn. My aim is to create an adult-learning infrastructure, which policy makers, volunteers, business leaders and donors use to become more informed of the issues of poverty and education, and thus more strategic in how they provide resources to improve outcomes for these kids. Through participation in forums like this I'm constantly adding to my own body of knowledge and I hope that others will benefit from what I share.…; Added by Daniel Bassill at 8:10pm on January 14, 2009

Comment on: Topic 'health care': d OS1. I am not knocking Bill Gates, He is a Philanthropist, and seems to be an honorable man. I just want to demonstrate that "success" has its connections. There is no doubt in my mind that "we" can provide and afford health care to all of the people in the US. When I was a kid,1950's, we had a US Public Health Service Hospital on Staten Island, NY. I do not know if it was free, all of my relatives who were adults then have passed on. However, when money was tight, my mom would bring us there for physicals, vacinations and examinations. This facility closed in the mid 1960's. As a Pharmacist form 1976 to 2001, I observed the transformation of Insurance from providing catastrophic coverage to managing all care services. Their business expanded and was mandated by State Medical Insurance Boards. I had the first hand knowledge of escalating pharmaceutical costs. There was no consumer resistance to the price of medications, they were paying a co-pay. There are life saving drugs and there are "symptom" drugs. We can all justify he costs of drugs the save or sustain life, but prescription cold medicines or allergy medicines were overpriced. Here are two examples from the year 2000. Claritin cost me $3.00 for each pill. If a customer had to pay out of pocket for 30 Claritin becouse of a runny nose, they would say "NO THANKS! What do you have over the counter?" Nasalide, a nasal spray for allergies, cost $75.00 a bottle. The response would be the same! The reason that these two items cost so much was simple. Nobody paid out of pocket for them. Health Care Plans also made inside deals for preferred drug coverage, despite the cost. Remember what I said about Board of Director membership, I had a neighbor who was he president of a small pharmaceutical research firm. He had 15 Board of Director seats in varuious Health Care Companies. He was a nice guy. This is how the system works. In the 1930's, Will Rodgers had numerous popular quotes on the corruption in government, they are all still true. Thanks JJC…; Added by John J Caprice at 10:20am on April 19, 2010

Topic: The Power of Crowdsourcing: om Which You Will Present: San Diego and Montreal Language in Which You Will Present: English Target Audience(s): Teachers and Administrators Short Session Description (one line): Learning From Your Network - The Power of Crowdsourcing Full Session Description:Today many connected educators have built strong, powerful networks and finding experts to learn from is becoming easier than ever. Understanding the power of this type of crowdsourcing is an equally important lesson for our students and teachers. Students need to understand the power of crowdsourcing and how it is being used to transform everything from buying products to coming up with answers to questions. In this session, Holly and Tanya will talk about how crowdsourcing teacher PD, with the EduSlams.me show, has helped them to expand theses ideas to lesson for their students. It is important that both teachers and students learn to use their networks and the power of crowdsourcing and this session will go over strategies for helping students and teachers do this effectively. Websites / URLs Associated with Your Session: www.eduslam.me, www.hollyclark.net, www.tanyaavrith.com …; Added by Holly Clark at 9:28am on September 10, 2013