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Wiley & Sons, Inc., (NYSE:JWa, JWb), a global provider of
content and workflow solutions in areas of scientific, technical,
medical, and scholarly research; professional development; and
education, announced today a new collaboration with TED, the non-profit
devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading, to create and supply instructor
materials for their recently launched series of “TED Studies.”
To support the demand for integrating TEDTalks into classroom
coursework, TED created TED Studies – 21 collections of curated talks,
organized into popular academic subject areas. Wiley will commission
instructor materials to accompany TED’s offering to educators. These
materials will be offered at no cost with TED’s video content on
iTunesU, Wiley.com and other platforms around the world.
“Combining the TEDTalks series for academia with Wiley’s high-quality,
customized educational materials and expertise creates a powerful new
resource for effective, flexible, and personalized teaching and
learning,” said Stephen M. Smith, Wiley’s President and Chief Executive
Officer.
Commissioned from leading authors who are specialists in their academic
and professional fields, the instructor materials developed for each TED
Study will provide teachers with valuable curriculum content. Each set
of instructor materials will include contextualizing essays, assignment
questions and activities, key debates, experiments, and glossaries
relating to the TEDTalks. Links to related content from Wiley and other
publishers will be included for lecturers to share with students, or for
lifelong learners to interact with directly.
“Our goal is to provide teachers with innovative, engaging resources
that can be used to supplement curricula and bring lessons to life,”
said Logan Smalley, Director of TED-Ed, TED's education-focused
initiative. “TED-Ed is committed to lessons worth sharing, and we are
thrilled to offer these 21 collections as a new resource – particularly
with the perspectives of highly regarded teachers and innovators from
Wiley’s vast network.”
The TED Studies span a wide range of subject areas in which Wiley has a
wealth of content and author relationships. The first authors to join
the project are:
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Prof Cary Cooper, Lancaster University Management School and
co-founder of Robertson Cooper – TED Psychology: Understanding
Happiness
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Prof Tamara Sonn, College of William and Mary – TED Religion:
Understanding Islam
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Prof Robin Lock and Patti Frazer Lock, St. Lawrence University; Dr
Kari Lock Morgan and Dr Eric Lock, Duke University; Dennis Lock, Iowa
State University – TED Statistics: Visualising Data
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Prof John Kingston, University of Massachusetts – TED Linguistics:
Exploring the Evolution of Language
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Prof Jeff and Lisa Smith, University of Otago – TED Education:
Creative Problem-Solving
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Prof Alex Rogers, University of Oxford – TED Marine Biology:
Deep Oceans
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Prof Tom McPhail, University of Missouri, St Louis – TED Media
& Journalism: Covering World News
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Prof Patricia Campbell, American Public University – TED Government
& Politics: Cyber-influence and Power
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Prof Max Boykoff and Dr Kanmani Venkateswaran, University of Colorado,
Boulder – TED Environmental Studies: Climate Change
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Prof Jose Oscar Mur-Miranda and Prof Ben Linder, Olin College –TED Design+Engineering:
Ingenuity in the Developing World
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Prof Jeff Forshaw, University of Manchester and Dr Peter Millington,
University of Sheffield—TED Physics: The Edge of Knowledge
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Prof Brian McGrath, Parsons The New School for Design and Prof David
Grahame Shane, Columbia University—TED Urban Design: The
Ecology of Cities
Several other courses and author teams will be announced over the year.
For more information visit: www.wiley.com/go/tedstudies
About TED
TED is a nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out (in
1984) as a conference bringing together people from three worlds:
Technology, Entertainment, Design. Since then its scope has become ever
broader. Along with two annual conferences -- the TED Conference in Long
Beach and Palm Springs each spring, and the TEDGlobal conference in
Edinburgh UK each summer -- TED includes the award-winning TEDTalks
video site, the Open Translation Project and TED Conversations, the
inspiring TED Fellows and TEDx programs, the annual TED Prize, and
TED-Ed.
About Wiley
Founded in 1807, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. has been a valued source of
information and understanding for more than 200 years, helping people
around the world meet their needs and fulfill their aspirations. Wiley
and its acquired companies have published the works of more than 450
Nobel laureates in all categories: Literature, Economics, Physiology or
Medicine, Physics, Chemistry, and Peace.
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solutions in areas of scientific, technical, medical, and scholarly
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online applications; and education content and services including
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