As a new player with a new business model, we have to deal with a lot of skepticism. Your product is free and high quality? That’s not possible. These two […]
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Apple is not “reinventing education.”
They make beautiful, easy-to-use hardware (iPad, iPhone). They are also a distributor (iTunes), and they are good at that. They also build cool tools to empower creativity (GarageBand, KeyNote, iWeb), […]
2012: Welcome to Our Year
After a nice respite over the holidays, I’m happy to be back at my desk. Why? Because 2012 is quite likely to be our year at Flat World Knowledge. The […]
MITx
MIT today announced the launch of an online learning initiative internally called “MITx.” MITx will offer a portfolio of MIT courses through an online interactive learning platform that will: organize […]
What’s it like writing for Flat World Knowledge?
Dr. Miles McCrimmon pulls back the curtain to reveal a little of the publishing process behind the creation of Flat World Knowledge textbooks. The ‘how’ is almost as important as […]
On Expertise
Expertise is a posture as much as it is a volume of knowledge. –Seth Godin