Search: open education / digital learning [as of 30 Oct 2012]

Open education has at least three components:  free access to learning resources; digital access to formerly analog learning resoources (e.g. instructors in classrooms); and learning accomplishment validation (becoming common) or credentialing (rare at this time).  More broadly defined, open education is “root” for any society desiring to be both democratic and prosperous.  Open education has …

David Brin: Solar cells thinner than a thread of spider silk

Solar cells thinner than a thread of spider silk created by scientists Solar cells thinner than a thread of spider silk and so flexible they can be wrapped around a single human hair have been created by scientists. By Danielle Demetriou, Tokyo The Telegraph, 09 Apr 2012 The ultra-thin film consists of electrodes on a …

Reference: 2009 National Intelligence Strategy of the United States of America

One day we hope to see each State, Commonwealth, Tribe, County, and Municipality realize they need their own unique intelligence strategies tailored to their strategic, operational, tactical, and technical challenges.  The aggregate of all of those bottom-up strategies will, we speculate, turn the national intelligence on its head and get it back to basics.  Smart …