Knowledge economy

Burning tensions: South Korean protest over Japanese textbook in 2001

                                 

First World War museum, Peronne, where a Franco-German textbook was launched  8)

                           

It was a revolution moving higher education from bricks to clicks…

and now it's started to go back to bricks again :

Online university students want to talk outside the computer screen

                             

   


     

Yulia Lesnikova says online students in Moscow enjoy studying together 

                                   

In Moscow, the learning hub is hosted by Digital October :

a centre for technology and entrepreneurship. Yulia Lesnikova, director of educational

programs, says it provides a more sociable way of following online courses.

"Education is a two-way process… It's a shoulder to lean on "

"Mentors give a lot of help to people who don't understand."

Yang Liu, Guokr says studying as a group provides a way of keeping students connected.

It also introduced the word "Moocer" into China :

"Learning can be very lonely, they can drop out."

"It's like a village, they form a small society."

                                 

Pompidou Centre, Paris, one of thousands of locations for online study groups :

                   

But you can't stop people from wanting to talk to each other, outside the computer screen.

As well as the more formal learning hubs, self-organised "meet-ups" for Coursera students

have sprung up in more than 3,700 cities around the world......
                               

Turning on a computer shouldn't be that difficult.

Except if you don't have any power supply.  :-[

A car with solar panels drives out to rural villages in Uganda to provide electricity

for school computers...

                             

The charge from solar panels provides power for an outdoor classroom :  8)