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As College Innovation Efforts Grow, So Do Warnings of a ‘McDonaldization’ of Higher Ed

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One of the most-cited versions of the critique is the 2002 book “ The McDonaldization of Higher Education ,” by Dennis Hayes and Robin Wynyard. He argued that the survey has led to an over-expansion of administrators put in to satisfy students rather than increase academic quality. institutions, including Arizona State University.

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In a Changing Career Landscape, Employers and Workers Need a New Social Contract for Retraining

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In a national survey of HR leaders that we at Northeastern University conducted last year, 64 percent of employers said that they expect the need for continuous lifelong learning will demand higher levels of education and more credentials in the future. According to PWC’s 2018 Global CEO survey , only around half of U.S.

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What these teens learned about the Internet may shock you!

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The news literacy initiative is based in the Stanford History Education Group that Wineburg founded in 2002 to train teachers how to use primary sources and help students critically evaluate historical claims.

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The 2019 Global Education Conference - Full List of 130 Sessions and 10 Keynotes!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Jared Cook, Doane University | Dr. Lorie Cook-Benjamin Programming for Perspective: Promoting Reflection and Discussion on the Immigrant Experience , J B Hill, Ottenheimer Library Director, University of Arkansas at Little Rock Proyectos telecolaborativos y acciones positivas hacia los ODS (Sustainable Development Goals).

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Education Technology and Data Insecurity

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Pokémon Go, a free augmented reality game developed by Niantic (a company spun out of Google in 2015), became the most popular mobile game in US history this year. ” “ How Asian test-prep companies swiftly exposed the brand-new SAT.” This is part eight of my annual review of the year in ed-tech.

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How a Flipped Syllabus, Twitter and YouTube Made This Professor Teacher of the Year

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A few years after John Boyer began teaching world geography at Virginia Tech , a survey revealed that 58 percent of college-aged Americans could not locate Japan on a map. He has also been named a Master Educator by Course Hero , an education technology company that produced a short film on Boyer. . Boyer raced ahead undaunted.

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