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Millennials: The Straw That Will Stir Higher Education’s Next Disruption

EdNews Daily

Famous billionaire college dropouts like Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, and the late Steve Jobs are prominent examples of successes who never completed undergraduate degrees. Beyond coursework, students swim in a flux of data, buffeted by phone calls, text messages, Facebook updates, Twitter tweets, news crawls, and other sources.

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10Q: Martin Weller - the battle for open

Learning with 'e's

This time, I''m very happy to interview two of the keynote speakers for the EDEN 2015 conference , which will be held in Barcelona. blogs, social media, learning objects, OERs, MOOCs, etc in this period. I think many MOOCs (and MOOC providers) will struggle to find a sustainable financial model in their current guise.

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Still, Watters runs deep #EDEN15

Learning with 'e's

Audrey Watters and Maarten de Laat Education writer and journalist Audrey Watters describes herself as a recovering academic, serial dropout and rabble rouser - her blog also carries the epithet 'trouble maker'. It was therefore with great anticipation that delegates at the 2015 EDEN Conference in Barcelona, gathered to hear her speak.

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Is the new education reform hiding in plain sight?

The Hechinger Report

Rogers Elementary became one of five schools in the Dallas Independent School District to pilot personalized learning in 2015-16, principal Lisa Lovato said she and her team grappled with decisions on granular issues, such as “How long should it take a kindergartner to log into a computer?” Photo: Laura Pappano for The Hechinger Report.

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Events + News - Library 2.0 Spring Summit - Free-Range Kids - Testing "Chaos" and Opting Out - Student Debt - Will College Survive?

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

April 20th - May 4th, 2015 Two Week Calendar | Learning Revolution Events | Learning Revolution Blog | Partner Spotlight To subscribe to this newsletter, please sign up at LearningRevolution.com. Please share this newsletter with your friends and colleagues! Two Week Calendar Monday, April 20th at 8pm TL News Night LIVE!

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via Inside Higher Ed : “A pending Connecticut law will now mandate that the University of Connecticut and the state’s four other public universities publicly release data on which transfer student credits they accept and which they reject.” ” Immigration and Education. .” ” Go, School Sports Team! .

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Inside Higher Ed on online education at Simmons College. More on MOOC and online education research in the research section below. The funding actually occurred in November 2015 but was not disclosed until required by law. ResearchGate raised $52.6 million total.