10muses.com

Per Mark Macho:

You and your students might enjoy www.10muses.com. There is instant access to the TVchannel sites of the whole world for a starter, arts around the world and much else, popular fun but also a simple way to learn about how others around the world perceive our time and its innovations.

Our tagline is ‘the global view.’

If you look at ,say the New York Times, you will get news from China, but filtered through an American reporter and an American editor. We grouped media so someone could see what the Chinese themselves are saying.

We provide the links to the preeminent publications. But whether it is about design or politics it is all ‘straight from the horse’s mouth.’

I am American and I think our inability or rather failure to really see other perspectives is harming us in every way–in the wallet, in defense, in noticing developments.

As you will notice there is a place on every topic to ask questions and get an answer from someone on the ground who really knows. What is the best club for House music in Moscow?…for instance. We have team members from every continent.

From DSC:
I don’t know much about this site, but being able to get another perspective — from someone in another country — seems like a good thing to me. Thanks Mark for the resource.


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World Bank opens up datasets — from Bryan Alexander

A large amount of data about the developing world has just been made freely available by the World Bank.

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Technology brings education to you wherever you may be — from timeslive.co.za  [via Ray Schroeder]
Survey: MBA – Now you can do that MBA via your computer

In the face of international competition, technology and the need for flexibility, business schools have adapted their offerings for MBAs.

No so long ago, the very notion of a distance learning MBA would be regarded with disdain, the chief argument being that it lacks face-to-face contact. But as technology has progressed, so too are those perceptions shifting rapidly.

Irving says the perceived lack of personal contact is no longer an issue. “The way our online students engage, build international networks and share knowledge is no different from the way our students on campus do it.”

Once a year, Warwick runs an eight-day residential programme for online students, but Irving says this may have become superfluous. “The way technology has progressed, especially over the past two years, the experience you can get online now is equivalent to an on-campus experience. And it’s cheaper than getting students to travel across the world.”

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