Hunter just proved that education is much more than the relation between teacher and students.

Enjoy it!

But he’s unquiet and a great programmer. That’s all we need.

Welcome to the team, Jodson! =)

We are looking for great people to join our team. You can see our new jobs pages here:

http://www.blabluble.com/jobs

Send your resume. Tell your friends about the opportunities. Hope to hear from you soon.

It is not different around the world. Look at what we found:

According to the Sloan Foundation reports, in the USA, there has been an increase of around 12–14 percent per year on average in enrollments for fully online learning over the five years 2004–2009 in the US post-secondary system. (…) A report by Ambient Insight Research projected that this figure would rise to 81 percent by 2014. Thus it can be seen that e-learning is moving rapidly from the margins to being a predominant form of post-secondary education, at least in the USA.

The director of the University Estacio, in São Paulo, Susane Garrido, says that it is possible to grow much further in the industry, especially given the development of new technologies. ”We will reach a time when we’ll no longer have face education or e-learning, they will be all the same,” she says.

We agree with the director. And we will make it happen.

We’re recharging…

One tip? We dont’t like Lessies.

Understood?

We all here at Blabluble.com have a Bachelor degree in Computer Science from Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil. I remember that, after our first semester, how easy it was to figure out a fact: we went into one of the best Computer Science courses in Brazil.

Most of the students who came there didn’t waste their time, but spent mornings, nights and afternoons studying – by themselves or in groups – in order to get excellent scores. Also, I remember that people who dida not fit this profile, in some way were (naturally) cast away from the community that (naturally) arose in that environment. Because of that, between writing a song and another, we really had to study hard. That was a way to remain inside the community.

We don’t know if this kind of pressure has a name (maybe in some areas such as Psychology), but we decided to call it Social Pressure. In fact, social or peer pressure is natural in any high school level. The more people are doing better, the more they have to strive to reach a better level.

Our challenge will be to bring this kind of reality into the e-learning world. And I can ensure you that we are really working hard to achieve this. Hope we’ll get it!

R2-D2, C-3PO, Optimus Primal, Marvin (my favorite one), Wall-E, Pelé (Yes! He is a Robot!). So, we asked Dalton (a designer friend) to scribble some robots to be our Blabluble character. But we forgot one thing: Dalton is an amazing designer. And he designed 17 options and now we have to choose just one. And we can’t decide alone.

Could you help us? Just choose three of them and tell us!

Tks =)

A clear vision

First things first. We need to have a very clear vision about where we are trying to go. That is not about a defined scope, but about a set of principles that we really believe. Simplicity, high quality, fun and sustainability are some of them. We already have invested some time to create a vision, but I think that it is not clear enough right now. That is our first week goal.

Removing non issues and impediments

We can cry a lot about what we don’t know how to do, or about things that is hard to learn, or things that is boring to do, or complain about the weather, etc, etc, etc. It is always easy to find a reason to do not do the things we want to do. A lot of the difficulties that are in front of us right now are not real issues, but just fake reasons to procrastinate. Anyway, some of them are real and we will try to figure out creative solutions for them.

Heartbeat

Healthy hearts beat at a constant pace. Even if you put yourself in move, like running, your heart will find its pace, maybe it is a fast one, but it beats at an almost constant pace. That is how we are planning to work, creating a weekly rhythm. Of course, we could decide to change the pace and go faster or slower, but we need to keep heartbeats.

Improving always

The points above are not perfect, but they are an improvement in the way we work. But because every solution brings some problems, we should improve always, change what is not working and try new ways to get better.

Continues…

I must confess that I’m not the kind of person that knows how to keep focus. Just one phrase or someone walking around works as a trigger in my brain and so a lot of thoughts starts to get chained in my head. Can you imagine a guy like me in a classroom? It was easy to forget the teacher and just think about a lot of more interesting things. Maybe the problem was with me because it was me losing the focus, right? What the hell was the problem with that kid?

Or maybe the problem wasn’t with me.

I can remember two or three teachers that know how to naturally keep my attention. What they do is very simple to understand, but also very complicated to do in a natural way: instead of throwing information on me, they tell stories. They know that writers don’t write the books to students, but to readers. They know that important people take decisions to change things, instead of pushing students to learn dates and places by heart. And those story tellers know that scientists, genius like Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein did what they did because of curiosity about understanding how the Universe works. Not to force me to sit in a classroom and learn some formulas.

When you think like this, you start to contemplate the stories, the context, the reasons and motivations behind the things you are trying to learn. Why this writer is so obsessed about “not to perfume the flower”? Why is he so obsessed about his strict meter and assonant rhymes? Try to know his history and you will see that he used to be an engineer (plus he comes from a family of artists). What about the calculus controversy between Newton and Leibniz? How cool is to listen someone telling these histories. I guess that this is the reason why we are so glad to share beers with friends while we tell and listen stories. Even more important, we share the stories we listen with others, that share with others and so on. Very powerful way to share knowledge.

For sure it was much more interesting to me hear all the stories both inside and outside the books. And that is what I try to do every time I teach something, I try to tell stories.