Category Archives: Reference Sites & Studies
The UnCollege
Is college necessary or is it even a good investment anymore with all of the online resources available? The UnCollege thinks there is a better way and points to an online world where the traditional education system is disintermediated. More than that, the UnCollege approach looks at creating an attitude of learning that is self-motivated […]
The Class of 2015 – Who Are They?
What will the college graduating class of 2015 want? The video found at this site Meet The Class of 2015. and the whitepaper at this link purports to know. http://www.meet2015.com/Content/Pdf/MrYouth_ClassOf2015.pdf Through surveying 5,000 students, as well as extensive focus group work, which included students video recording their own lives for the researchers, Mr Youth has […]
Blended-Learning Profiles from the Innosight Institute
A good site that provides case studies of organizations that are blending online with supervised brick-and-mortar settings. via Blended-Learning Profiles | Innosight Institute.
Digital Youth Project
The digital youth project explores how kids use digital media in their everyday lives. Led by researchers from USC and Cal Berkeley this research was done between 2005 and 2008 with a grant from the MacArthur foundation and incorporates the insights from 800 youth and young adults and over 5000 hours of online observations. Potential speakers […]
Potential Speaker on “Mobile Youth”
Graham Brown (mobileYouth) Presentations Channel. He also has a web site with other presentations on this site as well, including: http://www.youthmarketinghandbook.com/ http://www.mobileyouthreport.com/ [email protected]
CMCH.tv
Good reference site for youth and media. This is the organization led by Dr. Michael Rich. The Center on Media and Child Health at Children’s Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School, and Harvard School of Public Health is dedicated to understanding and responding to the effects of media on the physical, mental, and social health of […]
