The TED-Ed team provides an in depth look at the powerful features of the newly-launched TED-ED Beta website. You'll learn how TED-Ed videos are created, how they are arranged, about the learning materials that surround each video, and how you can create customized or "flipped" lessons based on any TED-Ed video or any video on YouTube.

http://ed.ted.com

Join Khan Academy founder Sal Khan and Stanford professors Peter Norvig and Sebastian Thrun discuss the future of technology in education. They are taking your questions live on Google+.

Udacity was founded by three roboticists who believed much of the educational value of their university classes could be offered online. A few weeks later, over 160,000 students in more than 190 countries enrolled in our first class, "Introduction to Artificial Intelligence."

http://www.udacity.com/

Nick Webb is Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Union College. His research encompasses a range of Natural Language Processing applications, including Information Extraction, Question Answering and Dialogue Systems, as well as Social Robotics, and Computer Science Education. He was the Principal Investigator of the NSF-funded Social Robotics Consortium of the Capital Region, and is co-PI of the Social Robotics Workshop, funded by the National Center for Women and Information Technology (NCWIT).

Stanford is offering more than a dozen free online courses in fields like Computer Science, Anatomy, Medicine, Civil and Electrical engineering.

http://www.class-central.com/

Changing Perceptions of Math by Teaching Students to Teach Themselves

Sean
After growing up in Europe and completing his undergraduate education at Southern Methodist University, Sean accepted an offer from Teach For America (TFA) to be a High School Math teacher in Hawai'i. After finishing
his two-year commitment to TFA and his master's degree
at University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, his passion convinced him to stay on at Waipahu High School despite other opportunities. This passion continues to inspire him as he teams up with Dan Nash to reshape the very perceptions of how people learn.

Khal Shariff - Entrepreneur, CEO Project Whitecarde

How do we use computer game technology in traditionally non-game friendly industries?

A new paradigm has been created for informing and personal enrichment, which is visually stunning and exceptionally compelling, and will benefit people from around the world. And we are just on the cusp of its true potential.

October 22, 2011 - Designing an education that truly builds the necessary skills for today's enormously diverse student population is not easy. But it's the key to opportunity for our citizens, economic vitality for our nation, and to assuring the U.S. remains a world leader. There is hope: innovations and innovators that challenge the status quo; research to help us understand how to move the education needle; a virtual army of reformers experimenting with new ways to teach, learn, and run our public schools.

The founder of Khan Academy (http://www.youtube.com/khanacademy), a free educational video library that features over two thousand titles and an interactive dashboard for formative assessment, discusses how his videos can help create a "flipped classroom" that allows lectures to happen at home and project-based learning to happen during school. For more about blended learning, visit http://www.edutopia.org/blog/combining-blended-and-project-based-learning

Nt Etuk of DimensionU argues students would be motivated to perform better in the classroom if schools took a few cues from the gaming world. For starters, he says, make the classroom a more controlled, personalized space that fosters an environment where students are safe to fail.

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Learning to Love Fun Again: Education and Training the Gamified Way