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MIT’s Free Creative Learning Class Teaches You How to Learn Almost Anything

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As reported on LifeHacker. by Alan Henry Whether you need to learn a new skill or language to advance your career, or you just want to learn something new and broaden your horizons, lifelong learning is important. Still, picking up new things can be difficult, and the free Learning Creative Learning course from the MIT Media Lab aims to teach you techniques to easily pick up something new whenever you want to. The course starts on…

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How California’s Online Education Pilot Will End College As We Know It

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As reported on TechCrunch. by GREGORY FERENSTEIN Today, the largest university system in the world, the California State University system, announced a pilot for $150 lower-division online courses at one of its campuses — a move that spells the end of higher education as we know it. Lower-division courses are the financial backbone of many part-time faculty and departments (especially the humanities). As someone who has taught large courses at a University of California, I can assure readers that…

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America’s first bookless public library will look ‘like an Apple Store’

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As reported on The Verge. By Laura June Bexar County, Texas says that it will open the first 100 percent digital public library system in the country, unveiling plans for its first location this past week. The plan has been in the works for a while, headed up by Bexar County Judge Nelson Wolff, who says he was inspired to create a digitally native library while reading Walter Isaacson’s biography of Steve Jobs. “If you want to get…

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Yet Another College Sex Columnist Writes About Having Sex in the Library

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As reported on Jezebel. by Katie J.M. Baker The Daily Mail is horrified that a UC Berkeley student had sex on campus and wrote about it in the independent student paper’s regular “Sex on Tuesday” column. “The elite University of California, Berkeley has seen a blow to its uber-serious reputation with a controversial article from a student boasting about her marathon campus sex sessions,” theDaily Mail reports, along with tons of irrelevant details regarding the history of The Daily…

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