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An overview of Outcome-Based Assessment strategies by Dr. Neelakantan P. C.

Linways Technologies

He spoke on assessment strategies in the Outcome-Based Education (OBE) framework. Affiliation to a university is a system where the majority of the assessment is done by some else instead of the teacher. It’s being speculated that by 2030, the system of affiliation will be abolished.

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The Winners and Filmstrips of An (Almost) Decade in Education Technology

Edsurge

Three types of edtech joined the “filmstrip” category in this decade: Learning Management Systems , MOOC s, and digital badges. As for MOOCs, in 2012, the elites in higher education discovered online learning, which many others felt they had already invented and improved over the previous 15 years. OER and open books. Digital badges.

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The Still-Evolving Future of University Credentials

Edsurge

And it was just a few years after the launch of the first MOOCs, putting the online higher ed market newly in the spotlight as it continued its steady growth. Five years ago, the application of data and algorithms to the HR function—as well the use of pre-hire assessment—were in a fledgling stage.

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Michelle Weise: ‘We Need to Design the Learning Ecosystem of the Future’

Edsurge

We can’t extrapolate from where we are today to meet the challenges of the workforce of 2030 or 2040. can’t just say, “Here’s a MOOC, or here’s an online degree, or a 6- to 12-week immersive bootcamp.”. can’t just say, “Here’s a MOOC, or here’s an online degree, or a 6- to 12-week immersive bootcamp.”. We have to do better.

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The Best Way to Predict the Future is to Issue a Press Release

Hack Education

” – that’s Sebastian Thrun, best known perhaps for his work at Google on the self-driving car and as a co-founder of the MOOC (massive open online course) startup Udacity. The quotation is from 2012. The markets, according to the press releases, are always growing. But that’s the story that people tell nevertheless.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). could see a shortage of up to 120,000 physicians by 2030, according to a report published Wednesday by the Association of American Medical Colleges,” Inside Higher Ed reports. The “New” For-Profit Higher Ed. ” “The U.S. and James L.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Via Inside Higher Ed : “Two debt collectors said in separate statements this week that they will not assess collection fees on defaulted student loan borrowers who quickly enter repayment, despite new guidance from the Department of Education.” ” Ng is, of course, the co-founder of the MOOC startup Coursera.