Daphne Koller is enticing top universities to put their most intriguing courses online for free -- not just as a service, but as a way to research how people learn. With Coursera (cofounded by Andrew Ng), each keystroke, quiz, peer-to-peer discussion and self-graded assignment builds an unprecedented pool of data on how knowledge is processed.

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Until recently, many teachers only got one word of feedback a year: "satisfactory." And with no feedback, no coaching, there's just no way to improve. Bill Gates suggests that even great teachers can get better with smart feedback -- and lays out a program from his foundation to bring it to every classroom.

Ready-to-use set of TED Talk handouts. 

They can be used with ANY TED Talk!

This is a series of blog posts that share the best Ted Talks for Education.

Prompt: What do you think Santa’s elves do on their day off?

Young poet, educator and activist Malcolm London performs his stirring poem about life on the front lines of high school. He tells of the "oceans of adolescence" who come to school "but never learn to swim," of "masculinity mimicked by men who grew up with no fathers." Beautiful, lyrical, chilling.

Ready-to-use set of TED Talk handouts. 

They can be used with ANY TED Talk!

This is a series of blog posts that share the best Ted Talks for Education.