Howard Rheingold starded a new project named Social Media Classroom (SMC), a free online educational platform with forum, blog, microblog, social bookmarking and so on. “The end goal of the service is to move education away from being a unidirectional delivery of knowledge to become a more collaborative learning process”.
The EduChoices has published the article “12 Universities Offering Free Business Courses Online“, in which indicates a bunch of free business courses online provided by some of top-ranked universities like MIT, Carnegie Mellon and Berkeley.
“This code is a step-by-step guide to fair use in an academic setting that enables teachers and students who use popular culture to know when their uses are legal.”
“Media literacy is the capacity to access, analyze, evaluate, and communicate messages in a wide variety of forms”
“Media literacy education helps people of all ages to be critical thinkers, effective communicators, and active citizens.”