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14 Examples Of Innovation In Higher Education

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14 Examples Of Innovation In Higher Education. Today, I’m going back and updating the post with some new thinking, examples of innovation, a revised order, some links for context, and excerpts from longer papers on innovation at the university level. Six Common Examples Of Innovation In Higher Education. An example?

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It’s the Dawning of a New Day in the Job Market. Here’s What That Means for Higher Ed

Edsurge

To the extent that they have the financial ability to do so, thoughtful employers will continue to invest in work-based learning models as a strategic early talent acquisition channel rather than consider summer internship programs, for example, to be simply a cost center or philanthropic effort.

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Yale Announces ‘Blended’ Online Master’s Degree

Wired Campus

In 2007 it became one of the first elite institutions to post lecture videos online at no charge. In 2013 it joined with Coursera and started building MOOCs. The Johns Hopkins University, for example, offers an online master’s program in public health that delivers about 80 percent of its coursework on the web.

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Future Trends Forum #8, with Jim Groom: full recording, notes, and Storify

Bryan Alexander

In 2007 Jon Udell made this argument in an Educause podcast, addressing non-educational data ( link ). Mentions If This Then That as an empowering example, offering another metaphor of railroads. Mentions If This Then That as an empowering example, offering another metaphor of railroads. A: Jim hoped so. That’s independent.

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Future Trends Forum #8, with Jim Groom: full recording, notes, and Storify

Bryan Alexander

In 2007 Jon Udell made this argument in an Educause podcast, addressing non-educational data ( link ). Mentions If This Then That as an empowering example, offering another metaphor of railroads. Mentions If This Then That as an empowering example, offering another metaphor of railroads. A: Jim hoped so. That’s independent.

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A Top Proponent of Higher-Ed Disruption Moves to Put His Theories Into Practice

Wired Campus

.” (Of course, it could also be argued that it wasn’t for-profit colleges or other early adopters that disrupted the status quo and made distance education more acceptable to the mainstream of higher education; it was elite institutions that embraced MOOCs.).

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What should mathematics majors know about computing, and when should they know it?

Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

This is a throwback post, first published in March 2014 (and referring to yet another post all the way back in 2007). First, I know more computer science and computer programming now than I did in 2007. Back in 2007, I was just using Geometers Sketchpad and Derive (anybody remember Derive?), and then somewhat sparingly.

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