links for 2010-08-17

Now that's called critically analyzing the Disney way. Not exactly the kind of message you would want to pass on to children for sure.

Has some videos thrown in as demonstrations.

or as Stephen Covey says, think win-win.

A very interesting list of experiments that'll make you look & think very differently at yourself and the world around you.

"Being aware of this can help us avoid falling foul of the most dangerous consequences of cognitive dissonance: believing our own lies." – that's the key.

Independent learners make up around half of the user base & MIT is fine tuning their approach. Quite a few interesting use cases too.
"OCW must also develop a sustainable funding model. MIT currently covers about half the cost of OCW publication, and grant reserves support the rest of the $3.7 million annual budget. As the grant reserves are depleted, OCW expects to transition to a model similar to that used by U.S. National Public Radio…
Despite the global use of OCW materials and the widespread adoption of the OCW model at universities worldwide, we are still in the early stages of understanding the many ways these materials are being used to improve formal and informal learning, and we believe many opportunities lie ahead for increasing the impact of OCW materials from MIT and the many other schools that have chosen to share their educational resources."