Knol Bulletin Board - Education

19.3.2012
A Lot More of IBM Watson in Our Lives
We will see "A Lot More of IBM Watson in Our Lives". This natural language artificial software system will take the role of clarifying a lesson to students on a one to one basis.
http://nraoblogs.blogspot.com/2012/03/lot-more-of-bm-watson-in-our-lives.html

Finnish school system is number one in the world now. But it is un-american in many ways. There are no private schools. There are no rankings. There are no standard tests. There is more emphasis on equity. Effort is to provide same facilities in all schools rather than creating schools with different facilities and ranking them.
http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/12/what-americans-keep-ignoring-about-finlands-school-success/250564/

17.3.2012
Higher Education Forum (HEF) India felicitated Dr. K.V.S.S. Narayana Rao for his Digital Knowledge Sharing Effort through Knol.

Some thoughts expressed by speakers at the convention of HEF


Knol Month of Education - September 2011

12.9.2011
Global Professors of Excellence - Educating Billions in One-to-One Mode - New Internet Global Education Model

13.8.2011
Knol Month of Education - September will bring into focus knols related to education.

16.6.

Texas education policy Good for US also
http://www.educationgadfly.net/flypaper/2011/06/good-for-texas-good-for-america/

11.6.2001
Career Colleges and Gainful Employment Rules
https://profiles.google.com/Tracy.Crawford.TC/posts/X7ZWpcT59J1#Tracy.Crawford.TC/posts/X7ZWpcT59J1

Education week articles 2011/06

29.5.2011

Knol VideoPedia   to support online learning

B-School Rankings of US News for 2012
http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-business-schools/mba-rankings

Engineering School Rankings
http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-engineering-schools/eng-rankings

Various Subjects

http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools



MIT School of Engineering's graduate program is the No. 1 in the according to to-be published rankings of the annual US News and World Report Rankings.

MIT Sloan School MBA program was ranked third after Stanford and Harvard. 
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/usnews-rankings-0315.html

25.5.2011
Technology in classroom

http://learnitin5.com/Knol

http://learnitin5.com/

http://www.teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=197748

http://www.teachertube.com/

26.7.2009

the number of studented enrolled in higher education is 152.5 million students in 2007. The number of male students is 75 million and female students is 77.4 million.

The percentage of the relevant age group now enrolling is 26%. These facts are from a recently released Unesco report titled Global Education Digest 2009.

In China, the enrolment of higher education students has grown at an average of 19% each year since 2000.

Study in Foreign Countries

Unesco statistics show that more than 2.8 million student around the world are studying outside their country.

Author of higher education: Crossing the borders Jane Knight says this number is likely to balloon to about 8 million by 2025.

Recently there was a World Conference on Higher Education in Paris.

In its proceedings it was revealed that China is number one in sending students to foreign countries. India comes second with more than 500,000 students spread across 55 countries. In USA, there are more than 100,000 Indian students.

I opened a knol to identify the topics that would help undergraduate program in Computer Science and Engineering.

Syllabus - First Year Computer Science and Engineering - SNDT University, Mumbai

Knol authors can indicate knols that are relevant for various topics in the syllabus. I shall link them to those topics. We can create similar linked syllabuses for various other universities.

Original knol - http://knol.google.com/k/narayana-rao/knol-bulletin-board-education/ 2utb2lsm2k7a/ 1501