A collaboration between TED and Japanese public broadcaster NHK is bringing TEDTalks to TV for the first time in Japan — for Super Presentation ! It’s a series that harnesses TED speakers’ persuasive ideas to teach English, empower a new generation of independent thinkers, and build hope one year after the Japanese tsunami. MORE >>

Despite the sad end to his life – he strangled his wife and spent his lastyears in an asylum, Althuser, born in Algiers, attempted to reconcile Marxismwith structuralism. LikeGramsci, Althusser saw education as the means by which the class systemperpetuates itself, stratifying people into workers, the petty bourgeoisie andcapitalists. MORE >>

When TED2012 Senior Fellow Nina Tandon (watch her TED Talk ) isn’t researching how electrical stimulation encourages tissue growth at Columbia University, she’s teaching bioelectricity across town at Cooper Union. How did the idea to have your students host TED Live Conversations come about? This blog is published online and is, in theory, public. MORE >>

March 1, 2012 to March 30, 2012. Working Smarter  draws upon ideas from design thinking, network optimization, brain science, user experience design, learning theory, organizational development, social business, technology, collaboration, web 2.0 patterns, social psychology, value network analysis, anthropology, complexity theory, and more. MORE >>

This short online programme being offered at the Social Learning Centre runs 9-20 April. Social media tools are increasingly being used in classrooms and workshops as well as in online courses. Find ot more about the programme here and how to sign up : How to use social media in formal learning MORE >>