VUCast Extra: Thanks for the memories!
They cried, cheered, but more than anything, said thanks as more than 200 fans welcomed the history making Vanderbilt baseball team home from its first College World Series in Omaha. The Tim Corbin-led team made it to the final four before losing to Florida.
Fly Down into the Marianas Trench (Deepest Part of Pacific Ocean)
This is a flight down into a data visualization of the undersea mountains and trenches of the Pacific Ocean, ending up in the deepest part of the ocean, the Marianas Trench. The "Challenger Deep" is measured at 35,813 feet below the surface, or 10,915 meters. Courtesy of NOAA's Marine Geology and Geophysics Division. (47 seconds)
Salman Khan: Let's Use Video to Reinvent Education
Salman Khan talks about how and why he created the remarkable Khan Academy, a carefully structured series of educational videos offering complete curricula in math and, now, other subjects. He shows the power of interactive exercises, and calls for teachers to consider flipping the traditional classroom script -- give students video lectures to watch at home, and do "homework" in the classroom with the teacher available to help. (20:27)
Lesgeven met Digitale Borden Waarom kiezen voor een digitaal bord? Onderzoeksresultaten. Alles op een rijtje gezet door de Provinciale Hogeschool Limburg. De digitale lessen (bordlessen) die je in deze website kan opzoeken en downloaden, worden door het departement Education …
Science, Faith and Postmodernism
Prof. Roger Trigg : Course
The Rationality of Science
Prof. Roger Trigg : Course
Is the Universe Designed?
Revd Dr Rodney Holder : Course
The Search for Extra-Terrestrial Life
Revd Dr Rodney Holder : Course
3.2 Case Study 1: Caswell's cockroaches The setting is a class of nine- and ten-year-olds in Toronto, Canada. The curriculum focus is biology. The classroom has been carefully organised to mirror the way in which a real adult scientific research community operates at the University of Toronto's zoological department, local to the school. Over a ten-week period, the young students are given the opportunity to become immersed in a culture of ‘scientific inquiry’ by their teacher, Beverley Caswell, who has chosen to make the
5 Child labour: a case study An interesting, controversial but important topic in the debate about corporate social responsibility and Global Corporate Citizenship is the issue of child labour. According to estimates released in April 2002 in
Every child counts: New global estimates on child labour
(Geneva, ILO), there were: some 352 million children (aged 5–17) engaged in some form of economic activity in the world in 2000, including 211 million in the a
Seeds: Day 7
A few days later, the seeds have turned beige in color. The roots have developed a bit more and the shoots have turned green. The roots are still white.
What do teachers want from an iPhone, iPad App And I have one very simple question for the teachers of th
We are currently in the process of creating an iPhone / iPad app for Edgalaxy so that we can better share our content with our mobile audience.
Valparaiso University nursing student Anna Urish
Valparaiso University College of Nursing student Ann Urish discusses her experiences, the Valpo community, and the quality of the nursing education she is receiving.
Turning Risk into Opportunity: An insider's guide to entrepreneurial strategy [Audio]
Speaker(s): Sir Ronald Cohen | Sir Ronald Cohen is a founder of the private-equity industry in Europe and one of the world's leading private equity investors. At the age of 26, he co-founded the firm that became Apax Partners. When he stepped down from the chairmanship thirty-three years later, Apax was the largest global private-equity firm founded in Europe. He is currently chairman of Bridges Ventures and The Portland Trust. He was knighted in 2001 for his services to venture capital.
The Invisible Cure: Africa, the West and the Fight against AIDS [Audio]
Speaker(s): Helen Epstein | This lecture is one event in the LSEAIDS series of Public Lectures on HIV/AIDS, Infectious Diseases and Reproductive Health funded by the Department for International Development (DFID).
The Two Faces of Asia: bridging the gap between high growth economies and the poor [Audio]
Speaker(s): Rajat M. Nag | Despite impressive growth over the past few decades, the Asia Pacific region is still home to two-thirds of the world's poor. In many Asian countries, the gap between rich and poor is widening and policymakers are faced with extraordinary challenges in closing this gap and spreading the benefits of growth to the most vulnerable in their societies. Rising fuel and food prices have exacerbated these inequities and placed millions more on the edge of poverty. The Managing
The Global Economic Crisis - Meeting the Challenge [Audio]
Speaker(s): Professor Tim Besley, Professor Francesco Caselli; Professor Chris; Professor Danny Quah | A panel discussion on the current global economic crisis: its origins, transmission, and possible impact and resolution. Tim Besley, Francesco Caselli, Chris Pissarides and Danny Quah are all economics professors at LSE.
Flexible Employment, Stable Society? [Audio]
Speaker(s): Professor Wolfgang Streeck | How does the de-regulation of employment relate to the evolution of other social structures, in particular the family? And what are the consequences for the role of the state in society?
Deciding our Future in Copenhagen: will the world rise to the challenge of climate change? [Audio]
Speaker(s): Professor Lord Stern | Nick Stern is IG Patel Professor of Economics and Government at LSE and chairman of LSE's new Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment. He also directs the Asia Research Centre and the India Observatory at LSE. He was Chief Economist of the World Bank (2000-2003), then Head of the UK Government Economic Service and led a Review of the Economics of Climate Change which was published in October 2006. In October 2007 he was appointed to th
