Nextgen Learning

http://nextgenlearning.org/

Next Generation Learning Challenges is a collaborative, multi-year initiative created to address the barriers to educational innovation and tap the potential of technology to dramatically improve college readiness and completion in the United States. NGLC is guided by the belief that providing investment capital to expand the use of proven and emerging learning technologies, collecting and sharing evidence of what works, and fostering a community of innovators and adopters will result in a robust pool of solutions and greater institutional adoption which, in turn, will dramatically improve the quality of learning experiences in the United States. Many potentially breakthrough solutions are being developed and tested by educators, institutions, technologists, and entrepreneurs, but too often they operate with little access to each other or to opportunities to disseminate their innovations. Support is needed to refine and rigorously test their solutions, to connect with other like-minded innovators, and to develop strategies to broaden their reach and impact.

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Depthcam uses Kinect and HTML5 to let you pan and zoom live 3D video

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WinRumors/~3/gXHBu9dSNYc/depthcam-kinect-html5-3d

“Developer George MacKerron has what that he thinks could be the future of webcams, or, well, something. He took a Kinect and gave birth to the depthcam, which produces a live video stream with 3D space that you can move through. Like Lytro’s adjustable focus images, the video that the depthcam produces is interactive — click and drag to virtually pan the camera, and use the scroll wheel to zoom. While it’s not the first Kinect-powered interactive experience we’ve seen, it is all presented in a black and white 3D point-cloud and, best of all, it runs using HTML5 in Chrome. We’re not completely sure what applications this will have in the future (MacKerron suggests a web-based video game), but take a look at the video below to see it in…

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-Sent from Weave for Windows Phone 7

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NeuroSky – Brainwave Sensors for Everybody

http://www.neurosky.com/

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InteraXon – Thought-controlled computing – Interaxon

http://www.interaxon.ca/

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TED: Ariel Garten: Know thyself, with a brain scanner – Ariel Garten (2011)

Imagine playing a video game controlled by your mind. Now imagine that game also teaches you about your own patterns of stress, relaxation and focus. At TEDxToronto Ariel Garten shows how looking at our own brain activity gives new meaning to the ancient dictum “know thyself.”XQ1j07CodKw

Source: http://www.ted.com/talks/ariel_garten_know_thyself_with_a_brain_scanner.html

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OpenLink Data Explorer

http://semanticweb.org/wiki/OpenLink_Data_Explorer

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OpenDX gives you new control over your data…and new insights into their meaning

http://opendx.org/

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Investigating Task Understanding in Online Repositories Equipped with Topic Map Indexes:

http://www.erudit.org/revue/ritpu/2008/v5/n3/039173ar.pdf

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Topic Maps Lab

http://www.topicmapslab.de/

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Topic Maps as key enabler for common archive functionality across a range of IT-systems

http://www.topicmaps.com/tmc/presentation.jsp?conf=TM2010&id=TM2010~Topic_Maps_as_key_enabler_for_common_archive_functionality_across_a_range_of_IT_systems

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