California to Give Web Courses a Big Trial

California to Give Web Courses a Big Trial - NYTimes.com http://flip.it/JgDqM http://flip.it/8W5cC   Related articles NYTimes rejects the MOOCopalypse (computinged.wordpress.com) Bill to Create 'New University of California' Dies (insidehighered.com) California Bill Brings Online College One Step Closer (tutoringtoexcellence.blogspot.com)

Improving education on environmental risks and fetus

Most Doctors Fail To Warn Pregnant Patients About Environmental Risks That Could Endanger Their Fetuses Jennifer Chait, inhabitots.com Image courtesy of ShutterstockA new nationwide survey, conducted by University of California, San Francisco researchers, shows that most doctors are not informing their pregnant patients about environmental risks they may encounter while… RT @inhabitat: A troubling survey … Continue reading Improving education on environmental risks and fetus

Americans have too much stuff

UCLA Researchers Find American Families Have Too Much Stuff and Too Little Time inhabitots.com Fam­i­lies drown­ing in too much stuff is the focus of a new book, Life at Home in the Twenty-First Cen­tu­ry: 32 Fam­i­lies Open Their Doors, by researchers at UCLA’s Cen­ter on Every­day Lives of Fam­i­lies (CELF). To get infor­ma­tion fo… RT … Continue reading Americans have too much stuff

UC Berkeley School of Information: Birth of the iSchool

  Increasingly new information schools are cropping up with combine engineering, social science and technology studies. School of Information. Related articles Yale Braunstein, professor of information, dies at 67 (ischool.berkeley.edu) Syracuse University's School of Information Studies Offers Certificate of Advanced Study in Data Science (digital-scholarship.org) UC Davis tops Sierra magazine's green rankings (universityofcalifornia.edu) UC Berkeley … Continue reading UC Berkeley School of Information: Birth of the iSchool