help with surveys of how universities can value youth http://normanmacrae.ning.com/forum/topics/the-worldwide-league-table-of-universities-that-most-value-youth
CCDC613: To Help co-edit Cribsheet for Obama and Youth in assessing which universities value youth's futures #Valuetrue #ValueUni Scoop Purpose ; Scoop Open Education
Extreme value open educators have large networks in boston (EDEX OLA) and san francisco (KhanAcademy) -next gathering http://open.media.mit.edu/symposium.html at end of september
CCDC lead practitioner Steve Foerster http://newworld.ac/ host of Free Curricula Center- is developing a virtual university exchange -check out his links
http://linkedin.com/in/stevefoerster http://fb.com/stevefoerster
looking ahead - we hope that one practice group will come up with their own league table methodology for value universities - a practical way to influence obama's project which is discussed by sal khan and arme duncan here
related links microeducation summit calls for assembly of first 5
adviser circles
we believe it is vital to present online education as actually creating more teaching jobs but yes with huge changes in tasks -discuss
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value education is also very personal- I chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk would love to connect around dc and md with parents currently concerned with our kids edu choices - eg I have daughter in 11th grade - choosing college and subject is therefor a big issue for me - as is tracking which subjects she might now be freed by - eg will this become a benchmark the best ever 12th grade calculus course https://www.coursera.org/course/calc1 - a good start is its using an open source textbook not an $80 one