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Harvard and MIT Launch Nonprofit to Increase College Access

Edsurge

What would you do if you had $800 million to build a new nonprofit to support innovation in online learning? The $800 million underpinning the effort derived from a controversial decision by the two universities in 2021 to sell their edX online learning platform to 2U.

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Will Online Ever Conquer Higher Ed?

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If online weren’t in the picture, on-campus enrollments, as reported in the most recent U.S. million between 2012 and 2016, says Jeff Seaman, co-director of the Babson Survey Research Group, who has been tracking the country’s virtual education lifeline for 15 years. A national Inside Higher Ed survey confirms those findings.

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Blockbuster YouTube Channel ‘Crash Course’ Teams Up With ASU For New Videos

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Crash Course is the creation of brothers John and Hank Green, who started the YouTube channel in 2012. Instead, he hopes viewers will see learning as “a way to understand ourselves and our place in the universe—and that’s fun and that’s exciting.”

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Erasing the Look and Feel of Poverty

Digital Promise

Richard Del Moro, Assistant Superintendent of Curriculum and Instruction, adds that Middletown works hard to make their students “feel good” by providing opportunities beyond academics, including extracurricular activities, athletics, music, and the building environment. In 2012, the district was one of 16 U.S. Why does that matter?

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Erasing the Look and Feel of Poverty

Digital Promise

” As a result, students engage in academics, athletics and extracurriculars because they “know you care.” Eastwood wants each student to be proficient in math and reading before finishing 5th grade. In 2012, the district was one of 16 U.S. Why does that matter?

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. And certainly the expectation of many ed-tech products (and increasingly school policy) is that parents will do just this — participate in the incessant monitoring of student data. Textbook Publishers vs. Boundless. 3D Printing.

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