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Tight on Goals, Flexible on Means: Universal Design for Learning Empowers Opportunity Youth

Digital Promise

Gaps between young people of privilege and Opportunity Youth in rates of learning needs diagnosis, college access and completion, suspension, and incarceration make a critical learning differences story that must be heard. In 2016, we had our first participant from a YouthBuild International program in Mexico City. Learn More.

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As Corporate World Moves Toward Curated ‘Microlearning,’ Higher Ed Must Adapt

Edsurge

Businesses today have to be more agile and have to be able to pivot—access to content needs to be very rapid,” says Lori Bradley, executive vice president for global talent management at PVH Corp, a publicly- traded fashion and apparel company with 35,000 employees. According to the Association for Talent Development, U.S.

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2016 and all that.

Learning with 'e's

MOOCs won't be the end. They will become places where the entire community can access learning, and where anything can be learnt. 9) Meetings and other work will increasingly be conducted from where you are, using your personal technologies. Photo by Mario Klingemann on Flickr 2016 and all that. Just me then.)

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Storms over liberal education: notes on the 2016 AAC&U conference

Bryan Alexander

Last week I participated in the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) 2016 conference. The event became much more dramatic than expected, once the hosting city, Washington DC, was clobbered by the great snowpocalyspe of 2016. Let me share some materials here, along with reflections on the conference.

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Coursera Couple Returns to Higher Ed With $14.5M to Recreate In-Person Learning, Online

Edsurge

Avida is the husband of Coursera co-founder Daphne Koller, and one of the first board members of the company that helped put the spotlight on massive online open courses, or MOOCs. That, Avida says, gives his tool a leg up in terms of being more accessible to a wider audience. But they are not done with higher education yet.

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4 Questions to Lay the Foundation for a “Culture of Innovation”

The Principal of Change

Are people more likely to complain after a professional learning meeting, than in one? I have watched schools go “1 to 1”, while still inundating staff with handouts and giant post it notes in staff meetings. If your students have access to a device, staff should have it as well. IMMOOC.

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The Inspiration in Front of Your Eyes

The Principal of Change

The notion of “Genius Hour,” which is an idea that has spread throughout schools all over the world, came about because educators noticed what was going on outside of schools and modified those ideas to meet their students’ needs. The power of the Internet is that we have access to so much information from schools and other organizations.

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