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Caltech: Founding Values

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Caltech’s small size makes its faculty and students incredibly agile when it comes to understanding a broad array of fields: there is a need here to be able to explain your work, and to understand the work of others. Richard Feynman once tried to reduce an advanced physics concept to a freshman lecture. That’s the Caltech advantage!

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BYU ESR conference on Social Entrepreneurship

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

His projection was that students were going to save more money on textbooks after three semesters of Flat World operations than investors had put into it. The Bookshare team is excited because we can take these books and do all the accessibility work because they are under an open license! I think they are onto something.

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Guest Post by Alan Levine: Social Media Recap from NMC 2009

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

cc licensed flickr photo shared by alumroot. Last year at Princeton, we added a Google Map for people to geotag their home location , an invitation to share photos of the number “15? (it I resisted using the title of “report card”. Most of this follows what we provided for attendees as our “conference tech tools”. Previously, On NMC….