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Remote Collaboration

Tony Karrer

I'm particularly drawing on both personal experience and on experience with the work skills workshops we are offering. At the start of these workshops, we put people into remote work teams. Real-time Voice I have had great success with a number of tools. See: Quick Start Guide for New Skype Users.

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Data on Big Data

Marcia Conner

We can throw the numbers into the biggest computing clusters the world has ever seen and let statistical algorithms find patterns where science cannot.” Future Work Skills 2020: Computational Thinking from Apollo Research Institute. More in a one of my previous posts, 10 Skills for the Future Workforce. Anderson, 2008.).