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Open educational resources--textbooks, curricula, video lectures and more that are released, usually online, under Creative Commons license for free sharing and reuse--have been at the forefront of the movement for higher education innovation. They're a key part of the Obama administration's national education technology plan ; in January, the Department of Ed created a $2 billion grant program to fund open community college textbooks and other materials.

"It's for anyone in health care who is thinking about innovation," says ILN director Chris McCarthy.

This tiny tablet can be powered by the sun, and dramatically improves a student's abilities to learn math. Over the years, computers have become an integral part of education in the developed world. But what of schools in less wealthy areas that lack access to electricity, not to mention the cash for pricey electronics?

Some of us spend the weekends kicking back. Or gardening.

It’s becoming common practice among small businesses to have employees spread out all over the country and even all over the globe. How do you establish a company culture when employees are not working together in the same office everyday?

Sunni Brown , M.P.A., is owner of BrightSpot I.D., a company specializing in visual thinking to support problem-solving in business.

Citelighter makes web research tools. CollegeHumor makes fun of everything.

You don't need to talk like a robot or an English language professor to control and dictate messages to your phone or computer. Here's how the speech-to-text software makers suggest you should speak. Nobody talks on the phone anymore, but people are talking at their phones.

Davidson is a professor at Duke University, a dyslexic, and a geek: The combination has made her a savvy, realistic, and observant critic of today’s technoculture. | Photograph by Adam Golfer Cathy Davidson thinks the time has come to reassess our approach ...

"Creativity is not some exotic, optional extra," says the author of "Out of Minds: Learning to be Creative." "It’s a strategic issue." Sir Ken Robinson is among the world’s elite thinkers when it comes to creativity and innovation. The author of Out of Minds: Learning to be Creative , a 10th anniversary edition of which was published in March, and The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything , Robinson has dedicated much of his professional life to helping governments, educational systems and businesses understand that creativity is not a fanciful luxury.

Editor's Note: The following is an excerpt from a chapter in the book Compass of Pleasure: How Our Brains Make Fatty Foods, Orgasm, Exercise, Marijuana, Generosity, Vodka, Learning, and Gambling Feel So Good by David Linden.

In this installment of DIY U, we dip into the world of Creative Commons-licensed open courseware and meet Pippa Buchanan, a DIY education rock star who built her education from just one blog post. She currently works for the Peer 2 Peer University , one of the most exciting and active experiments in online open education.

Think you’ve got training challenges? Try making sure thousands of your sales agents are up-to-date with the ever-changing online ad business

Nearly 100 years after Joyce wrote his polyglot seminal work, are we any closer to a technological solution to breaking down the barriers of language? Not if the recent scuffle over Google Translate is any indication. Joyce and the Limits of the Twentieth Century In celebration of Bloomsday (June 16, the 107th anniversary of the fictional events that occur in his Ulysses), I'll reach beyond time, death, and the limits of my own or anyone else's knowledge to affirm that James Joyce would have adored Google Translate.

Taking Teams to the Next Level Software design company Menlo Innovations believes in team work. So everyone works together in pairs, sharing one computer and one mouse.