Udacity – Free Classes. Awesome Instructors. Inspiring Community.:
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Supplemental learning, for life?
*Found in Reeder via a CrunchBase post update. Read about the AI class in a recent issue of Wired. iTunes U.
Udacity – Free Classes. Awesome Instructors. Inspiring Community.:
(Via www.udacity.com)
Supplemental learning, for life?
*Found in Reeder via a CrunchBase post update. Read about the AI class in a recent issue of Wired. iTunes U.
People need to express their problems to other people. Especially people that are willing to listen and to think about what is said. Meet with people and play a role (Talker/Listener) on both sides. Perhaps you and another person will find something important that needs to be done.
My original comment on the post is below. This was the idea that appeared as I read the sentence in the quoted text above.
A + B = C
Scratch your own itch. You may find others have the same issue that needs solving even if their threshold to pain is quite high.
Itch, itch, itch.
Notes & Extended Thinking:
An itch is any problem big or small that needs solving. Small problems solved, even at a low price, a lot of times can be enormously profitable and can make the world a vastly better place. Only a few people will create and win in the race to be the next big thing. There are a lot of small problems that need solving. Coding and computer programming is not a major subject in the U.S. public education system. Educating people how to code is a mostly untapped market. There are millions of students that will need to acquire the skills they need to participate in the workforce of the 21st century. Each year, several million new students enter the education system. As high school graduates leave, a new group of students is coming to the age where technology is interesting to them.
Opportunity.

The Kindle reading network has some interesting possibilities.
The key might be to arrange around some circle of relevance. Classes and topics make sense as these are areas one can identify interest in. How do you find areas of interest that are below the surface of consciousness? Perhaps this is solved by connecting with people from other networks something like a cross-pollination of interests.
Below is a screenshot of a webpage Amazon.com has for a finance book that presumably is used in colleges and universities.
There are more sections of highlighted text on the page that are not shown in the screenshot. The Public Notes section has no notes. The readers, students, could write in notes for a section of text and their notes would be easy to see on their own Notes page on the Amazon site. Notes they make public would presumably appear in this text box.

What would be interesting is if it would be possible to join a group, think class or book club, to read and share notes with. This could engage students and readers more. If half the class highlighted some text it would probably be worth talking about in class. The notes people write would enable a better discussion because reader recall would presumably be faster when text the person wrote was presented. The internal database of the mind would be faster for searching and synthesizing the thoughts and ideas of the book and passages.
Notes:
Link to the page for the book screenshot above. Perhaps more passages will be highlighted by the time you visit.
And, if the tales of Facebook and Google are any indication, the new champions of education might not be a McGraw-Hill or Blackboard, but a couple of intrepid tinkerers toying around with their new tablet.
via Apple’s iPad Officially Passes the Higher Education Test [Exclusive] | Fast Company.
Imagination + Technology + Action (can) = Amazing Success
*Read the full article in Fast Company.