Pathwright Launches Platform To Let Anyone Create, Sell Branded Online Courses

Education is changing, and startups like Coursera another, CodeAcademy, Treehouse, StraighterLine, Khan Academy, Lynda.com, and Udacity,(among others) are all carrying the torch for online education and the flipped classroom. But what also unites them is that they are fortunate to have the resources and capital to build their own custom platforms and infrastructure. But the reality is that there are thousands of traditional schools, education providers, learning coaches, etc. producing stellar learning content that lack the engineering resources or tools necessary to share their awesome content with the masses. This is where Pathwright comes into play. Greenville, South Carolina-based Pathwright was founded by a team of hackers (and educators) who have set out to build a platform for "the next wave of educators" -- a simple, DIY content management system that lets any and all educators create, distribute, and sell online courses under the banner of their own branded, online schools.

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The Tech-Adept Kitchen: A Home's Heart - and Brain

We might never get to the point of having a Jetsons-like kitchen that prepares our meals for us, but some recent advances in kitchen technology are getting close to that. Programmable ovens and stoves with pre-set recipes and instructions for various dishes, for instance, take much of the guesswork out of making a meal. In this way, Wolf's convection steam oven helps cooks along while they're making dinner.

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Romney Plays Up Past Laurels (WSJ)

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Kickstarter talks to us about product 'pre-orders,' won't force refunds when creators flake

Kickstarter has proven an incredibly effective venue for connecting project creators with monetary support -- inventors pitch directly to consumers, indie filmmakers meet indie producers and food trucks get the financial push necessary to take their restaurants to the road. With the latter two, backers don't necessarily expect goods in return, save for an overvalued t-shirt, bumper sticker or film credit. When it comes to electronics, however, funders are often promised a first-off-the-line gadget -- one that may never arrive at their door.

One oft-overlooked, yet critical detail should help curb expectations, while also serving to filter out pledges that are motivated by the pre-order promise, from those that offer financial support without a guaranteed return. Like it or not, all transactions fall into that second category. Pre-order offers may go unfulfilled, and some pledges may be reduced to donations, if a project creator ends up unable to deliver an item as intended. And such situations may not prompt a refund, souring the experience for an increasing number of hopeful device owners. Join us past the break for an explanation from the Kickstarter team, and a closer look at some recent examples.

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Afternoon Break (Theagitator)

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Arnold Schwarzenegger Set To Star In 'The Raid'-esque Movie, 'Ten'

Arnold Schwarzenegger continues to "be back," and today he proved as much by signing onto yet another film. This time it's the David Ayer-directed "Ten," which sounds curiously a lot like "The Raid." Also, Martin Scorsese gets tortured by The Dictator and we learned about anatomy from an "Alien" xenomorph in today's Dailies! » Sacha [...]

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Karl Marx: 10 great quotes on his birthday

May 5 marks the birthday of Karl Marx. Best known as the author of "Capital" and, with Freidrich Engels, the "Communist Manifesto," Marx provided the intellectual foundation for an array of regimes that at one time governed nearly half of Earth's population.

These regimes were, for many, a long nightmare of state terror, genocides, deportations, extrajudicial executions, forced labor, and artificial scarcity, crimes that left tens of millions of people dead and deprived many more of basic dignity.?

But while Marx's solutions are widely and rightfully condemned, his analysis still resonates among workers and intellectuals alike around the world. As much of the globe struggles to extricate itself from an economic slowdown that many believe was created by the excesses of what Marx called "the bourgeoisie," several Marxist concepts ? the anarchic nature of capitalism, the parasitism of the financial class, and the reserve army of the unemployed, to name a few ? appear to take on new relevance.?

Here are 10 quotations from Marx. Let us know which ones you like best, and add your favorites that didn't make it into the list in the comments below.

- Eoin O'Carroll,?Staff

1. On 'the 99 percent'

"You are horrified at our intending to do away with private property. But in your existing society, private property is already done away with for nine-tenths of the population; its existence for the few is solely due to its non-existence in the hands of those nine-tenths."?(From "The Communist Manifesto," 1848)

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