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The Digital Revolution Is Saving Higher Ed

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A year earlier, Stanford University computer scientist Sebastien Thrun, co-founder of commercial MOOC provider Udacity, outdid Christiansen, predicting an even bleaker future for face-to-face classes, claiming that in 50 years streaming lectures will so subvert conventional higher ed that only 10 U.S. million from fall 2012 to fall 2020.

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EdSurge HigherEd Year in Review: Our Top Higher Education Stories of 2018

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While not quite the “Year of the MOOC,” 2018 saw a resurgence in interest around the ways these massive open online courses are delivering free (and more often these days, not free) online education around the world, and how these providers are increasingly turning to traditional institutions of learning. Cheating on Chegg?

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Online PD Courses Help Educators Understand Ed-Tech, Classroom Management, Study Finds

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The three biggest reasons pre-K-12 educators took online professional development courses in the past year were to learn how to use digital devices, how to use the educational software that goes on them, or to find out more about classroom behavior or management, according to a new study. Online PD Course Findings.

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With New Online Marketplace, Community Colleges Hope to Better Compete With For-Profits

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They’re about a decade behind their university counterparts, who helped to found edX in 2012 , the same year that startup Coursera launched its competing service, now worth millions. As Tracy Hartzler, president of Central New Mexico Community College, said in the Unmudl report: “Without a doubt we are thinking about lifelong learning.”

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How ‘Learning Engineering’ Hopes to Speed Up Education

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He also knew that the notion of introducing what he called “learning engineers” would face resistance from faculty convinced they already knew perfectly well what they were doing in their classrooms. “A Only 58% of students who started college in 2012 had graduated 6 years later. colleges, but that has grown to more than 10,000 today.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

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This is part four of my annual look at the year’s “ top ed-tech stories ” Way back in 2012, I chose “ The Platforming of Education ” as one of my “Top Ed-Tech Trends.” ” And I wondered at the time if that would be the outcome for MOOCs. Remember Edmodo? They’re amazing.

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Creating Something of Value

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I would love your feedback and any examples of classrooms doing this already.). That being said, no matter how well funded a school is, and how well those resources are managed, there are still things that we could use for our classrooms. (This is trying to look at something that is an obstacle, and creating an opportunity.

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