President Obama's Life in Pictures
This slide show features images of the future president's life. This would be a good show for younger students and for those who are writing a biography of his life. It would also be good for a compare and contrast essay when viewed with photographs of other presidents.
Edge Show 117: Azure RMS | Edge In this show we take a first look at new features and functionality in the Azure RMS sharing application that enable you to share anything with anyone, safely and securely on any storage platform. Guiding us through is @TheRMSGuy Dan Plastina, Group Manager for RMS (and before you ask that means he manages development of the products). Dan and Simon May also talk through how the RMS team get feedback and some of the surprises we've had and some of t
MecMovies
MecMovies is an extensive collection of examples, theory, and games designed to complement the entire Mechanics of Materials course. The software features impressive graphics and animation that are highly effective in visually communicating course concepts to students. Special emphasis is placed on developing the learner?s understanding and proficiency in basic concepts and skills through interactive exercises and games. Classroom implementation of the software has produced improved student perf
4.638 Drawings & Numbers: Five Centuries of Digital Design (MIT)
The aim of this course is to highlight some technical aspects of the classical tradition in architecture that have so far received only sporadic attention. It is well known that quantification has always been an essential component of classical design: proportional systems in particular have been keenly investigated. But the actual technical tools whereby quantitative precision was conceived, represented, transmitted, and implemented in pre-modern architecture remain mostly unexplored. By showin
4.285 Research Topics in Architecture: Citizen-Centered Design of Open Governance Systems (MIT)
In this seminar, students will design and perfect a digital environment to house the activities of large-scale organizations of people making bottom-up decisions, such as with citizen-government affairs, voting corporate shareholders or voting members of global non-profits and labor unions. A working Open Source prototype created last semester will be used as the starting point, featuring collaborative filtering and electronic agent technology pioneered at the Media Lab. This course focuses on d
Guide to the Records of the Association of Community Councils, 1940-1947
The Records of the Association of Community Councils consist of meeting minutes and an annual report for the years 1940-1947. The councils are associated with neighborhoods in and around Pittsburgh.
4 A new life There is a common belief that life begins at the moment of conception, i.e. when a sperm fuses with an egg. This is a step forward from past years, when life was alleged to start at the time of ‘quickening’, i.e. when a woman could feel her fetus moving inside her. However, both these opinions suffer from an underlying falsehood: that life ‘begins’ at all. Life is a continuum; gametes are produced by living parents, and fuse to produce new living individuals, but unfused gametes are n
Financial Accounting
This book is intended for an undergraduate or MBA level Financial Accounting course. It covers the standard topics in a standard sequence, utilizing the Socratic method of asking and answering questions. Read the authors' preface or watch a podcast. Joe Ben Hoyle is co-author of two current market-leading advanced accounting textbooks with McGraw-Hill. He and and co-author CJ Skender have both won numerous teaching awards, and both were recently recognized by BusinessWeek as top undergraduate pr
Introduction This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course L120 Ouverture: intermediate French. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of level 1 study in French.
15.063 Communicating With Data (MIT)
Communicating With Data has a distinctive structure and content, combining fundamental quantitative techniques of using data to make informed management decisions with illustrations of how real decision makers, even highly trained professionals, fall prey to errors and biases in their understanding. We present the fundamental concepts underlying the quantitative techniques as a way of thinking, not just a way of calculating, in order to enhance decision-making skills. Rather than survey all
12.510 Introduction to Seismology (MIT)
This graduate level course presents a basic study in seismology and the utilization of seismic waves for the study of Earth's interior. It introduces techniques necessary for understanding of elastic wave propagation in layered media.
A Tool for Typological Analysis
Any design problem is faced drawing from the architect's knowledge both case knowledge and general knowledge. One type of the latter is abstracted from a multiplicity of cases of which the common features are recognised in such a way as to single out a prototype representing in the best way a class of architectural objects. If applied to a set of residential buildings and to the flats in them the analysis is typological and it is one of the fundamental ways of acquiring general knowledge to be u
2.4.1 Five key ideas about systems Systems thinking will enable you to analyse complex issues in an illuminating way. It takes a whole (or holistic) view of a situation. When you think of a system, bear in mind the following five ideas: Everything in a system is connected The elements of a system are interconnected. The members of a department or a voluntary group constitute a system. There are connections between the members. A system can comprise people, material objects,
The Critical Role of Trust and Alignment In the Success of a Business
David Silverman is the author of Typo -- the story of how he tried and ultimately failed to realize his dream of saving the typesetting business in the U.S. while staying true to his ideals of social justice. In this youtube interview, Silverman says that the most important determinant of success for a company is whether or not the goals ofall employees-- from the CEO to the hourly worker -- are aligned, so that everyone is pulling in the same direction.
HILT Conference 2014 – Early lessons from research: Sam Moulton
EARLY LESSONS FROM RESEARCH IN TEACHING AND LEARNING
Insights and practical findings from in-progress research
3 bodies of work underway and a facilitated discussion of them.
Featuring: Samuel T. Moulton, Director of Educational Research and Assessment, Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching
The Annual HILT Conference 2014 was held on September 16 in Wasserstein Hall. See more multimedia from the conference at http://hilt.harvard.edu/multimedia.
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Radio Lingua Network News: 26 September 2008
Happy European Day of Languages to all our listeners! By way of joining in this international celebration of languages and language-learning we're delighted to introduce eight new podcasts today. We're adding Catalan, Danish, French, Japanese, Mandarin and Romanian to our One Minute Languages series; we're introducing our first podcast for English learners - Write Back Soon will help learners master Phrasal Verbs; and we're finally announcing the long-awaited sequel to Coffee Break Spanish: it's
Clooneys celebrate wedding for third time with UK bash
George Clooney and wife Amal Alamuddin hold a lavish party outside London so friends and family who couldn't attend their Venice wedding can celebrate their marriage. Mana Rabiee reports.
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Towards Changeability
Many buildings around the world have undergone successive changes over their life cycles. Regardless of the type or size of a building there are usually requirements for change due to several unanticipated forces and emerging uncertainties that act upon them. These changes might be in the building?s spatial, structural or service systems. This can be due to changes in the needs of occupants, the market demand or technological advances. Although buildings undergo change, current design practice d
