TED Talks: The knowledge ecosystem

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January 29, 2010

TED Talks: The knowledge ecosystem

Tags: Education

This week's TED Talks features Professor Richard Baraniuk who explains the vision behind Connexions, his open-source, online education system.

Richard Baraniuk is founder of Connexions, a free, open-source, global clearinghouse of course materials. People in some 200 countries tap into its vast store of texts on everything from engineering to ornithology to music, adapting the content as they see fit.

Watch the other TZ picks of the fantastic TED Talks series: Fields Wicker-Miurin on Learning from leadership's 'missing manual', Gerver Tulley and his tinkering school, Dan Pink on the science of motivation, TED Talks: Alexis Ohanian on how to make a splash in social media and Tim Ferris: Smash the fear, learn anything