Login

What is Library 2.0

Climate Action - Energy for a changing world

This video catalogue represents a selection of the vast number of audiovisual products, news items and archives by the EU Commission - Audiovisual Productions
Home arrow EduLab

EduLab is a model for an alternative knowledge environment and experience.
EduLab is committed to be open, free, comfortable, inspiring, and practical.

Edulab2.jpg

Knowledge is a public good for the benefit of all. There is no limit to the power of the mind.

"More than anything else, being an educated person means being able to see connections so as to be able to make sense of the world and act within it in a creative way" (W. Cronon) 

EduLab's model integrates and centralizes multistream channels of contents into a dynamic learner-centered learning experience. EduLab does not replace traditional educational and research institutions but it does all what they do not do. EduLab allows anyone to learn by exploring contents using the integrated community resources  such as wiki , articles, blogs, chat, events, people, presentations, tag charts, etc… edulab_works.jpg
edulab_peer.jpg Trusting peers more than experts can generate a large scale creation of new knowledge through a learning process in which anyone moves from knowledge receiver to knowledge maker. EduLab is social: confrontations and collaborations with peers are encouraged as they have a series of positive “collateral effects”.
Supported by a powerful community resources integrated system each learner may transform his/her psychological structure of knowledge into an effective and new enriching learning experience. The user/learner is both the owner and the donor of any discovery occurred using EduLab.  edulab_circle_of_lnpwledge.jpg


Out There: Boarding school blues
by Herb Keinon, The Jerusalem Post

On a hill some 90 seconds from my front door sits a fine religious Zionist yeshiva high school. It has good teachers, nice classrooms, and even a basketball court. It looks perfect, and my sons should naturally want to go there.

No such luck. Why should they roll out of bed and into class, when they could travel far and wide to enjoy the same pleasure?

Read full article  
 
In Algeria, a Tug of War for Young Minds

By Michael Slackman, New York Times

ALGIERS — First, Abdel Malek Outas’s teachers taught him to write math equations in Arabic, and embrace Islam and the Arab world. Then they told him to write in Latin letters that are no longer branded unpatriotic, and open his mind to the West.  Malek is 19, and he is confused.

Read full article

 
The web that time forgot

by Alex Wright, International Herald Tribune

On a fog-drizzled Monday afternoon, this fading medieval city feels like a forgotten place. Apart from the obligatory Gothic cathedral, there is not much to see here except for a tiny storefront museum called the Mundaneum, tucked down a narrow street in the northeast corner of town. It feels like a fittingly secluded home for the legacy of one of technology's lost pioneers: Paul Otlet.

Read full article

 

 
 
Stolen Knowledge

by John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid, Work in Progress

"A very great musician came and stayed in [our] house. He made one big mistake . . . [he] determined to teach me music, and consequently no learning took place. Nevertheless, I did casually pick up from him a certain amount of stolen knowledge". [Rabindrath Tagore quoted in Bandyopadhyay, 1989: 45]