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Describes the greatest threats to the human species, including super diseases, ecological calamities, and technology.

In our chaotic, high-tech age, the lines between work and home, public and private, are becoming increasingly blurred. In this changing time, Jackson explores the ever-changing role of home in our lives and sets out to update our idea of home. What's Happening to Home? goes beyond debates about square footage and working moms, to shed light on the larger questions surrounding the idea of home. How can we find refuge without shortchanging the work...

In this film, Ethical Markets Media President Hazel Henderson and Flagler College President Dr. William Abare discuss growing challenges to education: costs rising faster than inflation, students bearing $1.2 trillion in loans while facing disruptive technological changes, and job markets shifting globally. How are traditional colleges challenged by massive open online courses (MOOCs) such as Khan Academy and millions of students learning free online?...

Looks at the impact that information technology has had on schools and students, covering such topics as privacy, electronic cheating, the inequality of access to technology education, and distance learning.

To date little is known about the everyday activities that make up the majority of people's learning lives. This book presents a critical approach to learning using situated learning and activity theory, drawing on the writings of Marx, Gramsci, Marxist-feminists, as well as the sociology of Bourdieu. Though many have demonstrated that schooling and adult training are deeply affected by issues of social class, this book explodes the myth that everyday...

"[T]he skills the economy values are changing in historic ways. The abilities that will prove most essential to our success are no longer the technical, classroom-taught left-brain skills that economic advances have demanded from workers in the past. Instead, our greatest advantage lies in what we humans are most powerfully driven to do for and with one another, arising from our deepest, most essentially human abilities--empathy, creativity, social...

"A practical, educational technology resource for educators teaching remotely or in the classroom"-- At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, millions of schools shut their doors to reduce the transmission of disease and save lives. Many educators struggled with adapting to emergency remote learning. What does it take to teach effectively in hybrid learning environments? It requires knowledge of instructional strategies, technologies and tools that...

Increasing Student Engagement and Retention Using Multimedia Technologies: Video Annotation, Multimedia Applications, Videoconferencing and Transmedia Storytelling examines new research on how videoconferencing, video annotation, video mapping, and related technologies are being used in higher education to increase learner engagement in an epoch of increasing globalization and diversity. These enabling technologies are reshaping and reframing the...

This book presents a comprehensive history of the field of online education as told by many of the pioneers who created it. In doing so, it fills in the background and provides a foundation for more recent efforts. Each of the contributors discusses their work in online education and presents a personal perspective of the field. Collectively, the chapters portray the major themes and issues that have characterized the past development of online education...

This book outlines a blueprint for the world to come, a world built around cities and their renewed capabilities to become productive again.