Learning

Friedman And North on Vouchers

The link below is to an “old” article by Gary North. The article is from 1993, but the point is interesting and quite timely. Milton Friedman argues for school vouchers as a way for parents to retain control of their children’s education, while North argues that he who pays the piper still calls the tune. [...]

Free learning 2 (for everyone)

This is a TED video of Salman Khan. He is promoting using video for learning. He also put his money where his mouth is and created the Khan Academy. The academy has a zillon free videos on all sorts of topics. I wish this were around when I was in school. One benefit he talks [...]

Free learning (for trainers and instructional designers)

“The best things in life are free” or “you get what you pay for”? Each is true sometimes and in this case it is the first one. Here are two sources of free eLearning through live (and recorded) webinars: Training Magazine Network and Training Games Network. The former has been around a few years and [...]