That we’ll learn school-ish things on the internet seems inevitable, but most people seem not to learn very much or very quickly online; Sebastian Thrun admitted as much in a Fast Company interview a few months ago. To figure out how computers actually could help people learn, I spent the summer teaching students and building software.
Beyond the Dark Forest Theory of the Internet
Re-learning how to be yourself online
The education of a computer
Changing Minds: Computers, Learning, and Literacy
An impassioned guide to how computers can fundamentally change how we learn and think.Andrea diSessa's career as a scholar, technologist, and teacher has b
Learning to Learn: You, Too, Can Rewire Your Brain (Published 2017)
How an engineering professor who “flunked my way” through high school math and science went on to create the world’s most popular online course.
Learning Platforms for K-12 Schools | Discovery Education
Looking for k-12 learning platforms for schools? Discover K–12 curricula and resources that support in-class, online, and blended learning to keep students and teachers connected.
Effective Learning Strategies for Programmers - Allison Kaptur
In early September I gave a keynote at Kiwi PyCon in New Zealand on effective learning for programmers. There were two pieces to the talk: one about …
Beyond the Page: Enriching Academic Paper Reading with Social Media Discussions | Proceedings of the 38th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology
Social media has been gaining popularity among university students who use social media at higher rates than the general population. Students consequently spend a significant amount of time on social media, which may inevitably have an effect on their ...
[TEXT] I just finished the online Coursera course "Learning how to learn". I highly recommend it to everyone and I summarized everything I learned from it.
34K votes, 995 comments. So I just finished the course https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn and I can say that it has actually…
Udacity's Sebastian Thrun, Godfather Of Free Online Education, Changes Course - Fast Company
He captivated the world with visions of self-driving cars and Google Glass and has signed up 1.6 million students for online classes. So why is he pivoting away from MOOCs? "We don't educate people as others wished, or as I wished," Thrun says.
Connectivism (Siemens, Downes) – Learning Theories
Keywords: communication, connection, distributed cognition, distributed learning, information, Internet, knowledge sharing, links, massive open online course (MOOC), nodes, online, open educational resources (OER), social networks
Math Academy Wants To Supercharge Your Learning
A review of the online learning program
Prioritize learning / seth.computer
The personal website of Seth Etter, a Wichita, KS based software engineer.
hyprstream/hyprstream
HyprStream: agentic infrastructure for continous online-learning applications
How to keep learning in the age of LLMs | Oğuzhan Olguncu
Notes on how I keep learning as a programmer in the age of LLMs
Older Adults Learning Computer Programming: Motivations, Frustrations, and Design Opportunities
Online videos are a promising medium for older adults to learn. Yet, few studies have investigated what, how, and why they learn through online videos. In this study, we investigated older adults’ motivation, watching patterns, and difficulties in using ...
