FreeCampus.org – Free College Course Content Using Your Favorite Video Talks

Free Campus is an initiative to share knowledge in a collaborative way using free social media tools and free popular video talks to generate discussions. Visit freecampus.org

Course resources are created as events or posts in our Facebook page and blog and linked to course sites. Enrollment is free and discussions, file exchange, and link exchange are open to anyone interested in the topic. Engagement occurs in different sections of courses and continues after a regular course is over.

Participation and collaboration in the topics are encouraged to add resources to the topics. No exams nor required assignments, Self-assessment is encouraged.

The model will be tested during Fall 2012 using one course.  It expanded to Blackboard  based on or not level of interest, participation, and collaboration. TED, TEDx, TED Ed Lessons and Blackboard Community were added in 2014. 

Like Facebook page and engage in Social Media Learning too.

 

TED Fellows in the Field: Exploring Nairobi with “Blinky” Bill Sellanga — TED Blog #ExploringKenya

Nairobi, Kenya is one of the undisputed hubs of creativity on the African continent — and TED Fellows are at the center of the action. They’re building global technology companies like Ushahidi and BRCK, making genre-busting music that draws on wide-ranging cultural influences and working with marginalized communities in Kenya to make sure their voices are…

via TED Fellows in the Field: Exploring Nairobi with “Blinky” Bill Sellanga — TED Blog

Al Gore: The Case for Optimism on Climate Change (TED 2016) #ClimateChange

Lesson created by Jose G. Lepervanche using Video from Climate Reality YouTube Channel

In his latest TED talk, Al Gore, founder and chairman of The Climate Reality Project, poses three questions that will determine the future of our planet – and why there’s good reason to be optimistic. Please Dig Dipper.

http://ed.ted.com/on/M3Ng4cjH

How are you going to answer Al Gore’s questions? What are you going to do in your community and circle of influence? Share references, links, and video links.

In Case You Missed It: Lessons learned through the course of TED2016 | TED Blog

Read TED blog about major lessons learned during TED2016.

A fresh attitude on climate change. Al Gore’s optimistic, impassioned talk about climate change lifted spirits on a topic that has been the source of so much concern. “When any great moral challenge is ultimately resolved into a binary choice between what is right and what is wrong, the outcome is foreordained because of who we are as human beings,” Gore said.

via In Case You Missed It: Lessons learned through the course of TED2016 | TED Blog.

Learning Adventures @ TEDxFSCJ Live Tickets, Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 6:30 PM | Eventbrite

Learning Adventures are engaging educational events that include TED Talks discussions, conversations with TEDx speakers, and other related activities hosted by TEDx organizers. Adventures keep the conversations and actions alive. Adventures follow the actions after the talks. Learning Adventures @ TEDxFSCJ is our contribution to the Adventures ideas created in TEDxBeaconStreet. Visit their webiste and learn how to create your own Adventures.

TED2016 in Vancouver, Canada (Feb 15-18) will feature new world speakers. TEDxFSCJ is doing a simulcast on Feb 17 and TEDxJacksonville on Feb 18.

Our Learning Adventures will be on FSCJ Deerwood Center on Feb 16 limited to our students and guests up to 90 seats. We will discuss what is TED2016, show a few Live talks and discuss their influence in globalization

via Learning Adventures @ TEDxFSCJ Live Tickets, Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 6:30 PM | Eventbrite.

#Leadership. Follow your Why: Simon Sinek: How great leaders inspire action. #why

 

Follow your Why: Simon Sinek: How great leaders inspire action. #DrJoseCampus

See TED Ed Lesson with Simon Sinek. He  has a simple but powerful model for inspirational leadership all starting with a golden circle and the question “Why?” His examples include Apple, Martin Luther King, and the Wright brothers …
(Filmed at TEDxPugetSound). Create a personal vision by answering Why?

Direct links:
http://ed.ted.com/on/E3EFnDvz

http://wp.me/p70Vi0-2V

Why Every Kid Should Build A Robot | Mark McCombs | TEDxJacksonville #Robotics

Check our new TED Ed Lesson: Why Every Kid Should Build A Robot | Mark McCombs | TEDxJacksonville #Robotics

Lesson created by Jose G. Lepervanche using TED ED. How robotics is helping our next generation of engineers, programmers, and managers in your community? Share local examples and links. Video link: http://ed.ted.com/on/JDQ6LQ6x