Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2021

To start off, it’s worth thinking back to 2016. Education policy leaders at the federal level and beyond were exploring the growing role of competency-based education and non-traditional providers —and calls were growing for stronger connections between universities and the world of employment.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 28, 2018

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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Edsurge

OCTOBER 30, 2018

The online degree market has been one of the fastest-growing and most resilient segments of American higher education over the last two decades. Today, more than three million students pursue higher education fully online, representing a $20-billion market. According to U.S.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 12, 2020

14 Examples Of Innovation In Higher Education. I don’t follow higher education very closely, so this is all from 20 feet away. Six Common Examples Of Innovation In Higher Education. Competency-Based Education, at least in terms of the learning process (as opposed to content), should be more student-centered and efficient.

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The Principal of Change

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

What does innovation mean for education, and should every educator be an innovator? Not only is this a great way to dig deeper into the content of the book, it is an amazing opportunity to create your own learning, while networking with passionate educators around the world. January 9, 2016 What is innovative leadership?

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2016

These are my observations about what’s happened in education technology (and education more broadly) over the course of the past 12 months. Education Technology and the Year of Wishful Thinking. The Politics of Education Technology. The Business of Education Technology.

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The Principal of Change

DECEMBER 28, 2016

– Technologies That Will Define the Classroom of the Future https://t.co/XnFCPlER4r. George Couros (@gcouros) December 28, 2016. MOOCs and other online learning options. – Technologies That Will Define the Classroom of the Future https://t.co/XnFCPlER4r. George Couros (@gcouros) December 28, 2016.

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Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2019

Graduate education has been a bright spot in U.S. higher education, as getting a graduate degree has become far more common in recent decades, particularly for the millennial generation. According to data from Burning Glass Technologies, 19 percent of U.S. About 37 percent of all graduate education in the U.S.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

The edtech entrepreneurs, educators, investors and other education professionals that share their opinions and practices through storytelling on our site are invaluable to this industry, and we celebrate them. Today, we’d like to call out nine of our contributors in particular, who’ve written the most popular articles of 2016.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 8, 2016

Last week at Campus Technology 2016, higher-ed technologists joined forces with administrators, instructional designers, and faculty to explore another realm many consider “wizardry”—predicting the future. Here are some of our biggest takeaways from the marathon event: INNOVATION OR TRANSFORMATION IN EDUCATION?

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Edsurge

MARCH 3, 2021

With an investment fund, a conference and a constellation of advisory services, GSV may be the closest thing to an omnipresent brand in education investing. We think those markets have a lot of raw talent of entrepreneurs, and a rising middle class that makes for a strong underpinning” for education and economic growth.

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Bryan Alexander

DECEMBER 29, 2015

What can we expect in 2016 from the intersection of technology and education? I’m building on previous posts about trends in technology and educational contexts , plus my FTTE report, naturally. Educational technology trends. And the MOOC numbers look like they’re rising.

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The Principal of Change

AUGUST 2, 2018

What is the most crucial element to innovation in education? No program, technology, idea, or anything else will ever be as important to what you do in schools as the people in front of you. September 8, 2016 The #InnovatorsMindset MOOC Starting Soon! That’s it. Take care of the people that you serve.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 13, 2017

We and our partners are committed to bringing the voices and experiences of Opportunity Youth learners (low-income young people of promise, ages 16 to 24) and educators to the conversation about learning differences. In 2016, we had our first participant from a YouthBuild International program in Mexico City.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

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. Are any education technologies, for that matter?

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The Principal of Change

APRIL 30, 2017

“Innovation” is one of the most used words in education right now. Here are some misconceptions about the word that we need to dispell to protect “innovation” in education from becoming a buzzword. Innovation is about how you use technology. Nope…this is incorrect. Look at EdCamp. Again, no.

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Bryan Alexander

JANUARY 24, 2016

Last week I participated in the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) 2016 conference. It was a powerful gathering of campus leaders and practitioners, organized around a common focus on liberal education. Let me share some materials here, along with reflections on the conference. Preconference workshop.

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The Principal of Change

MAY 16, 2019

The idea that technology gets rid of the “basics” is ridiculous; it is more about going beyond those basics and doing more than you could without access to endless information. Learners will have to do that for themselves, and as Katie shares, educators are central to that work.

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Bryan Alexander

MARCH 19, 2016

Here’s an outline of topics that came up, partly from my FTTE observations, partly from participants: Education and its contexts : I mentioned recent trends about state funding to public higher ed (increasing!), Technology topics included social media, video, 3d printing, VR, internet of things, automation, and privacy.

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The Principal of Change

MAY 10, 2018

Having just received an email from someone starting a new “technology” position in their school, they asked me what advice I would give. I shared the following advice: My only suggestion for you is to start from the curriculum and work backwards from there, not try to force technology into the curriculum. Don’t add.

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Edsurge

APRIL 3, 2018

In 2017, Stephen DeRue, dean of University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business, wrote a Forbes column arguing that, in order to make higher education more affordable, we needed to move towards an “iTunes model for education.” “In

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The Principal of Change

APRIL 21, 2017

As I was listening to the content, the conversation was a lot of “we” (as in educators) figuring out what “they” (as in students) need. Michael Fullan, researcher and former dean of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, made the statement, “Learning is the driver; technology is the accelerator.”.

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The Principal of Change

DECEMBER 13, 2018

And yet, time and again, I saw frustrated educators go above and beyond to create powerful learning opportunities for our students. If you’re thinking you don’t have the time, remember that your technology is mobile. ” We can do both in education if we think about how we can innovate inside the box.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 19, 2019

The education industry’s current fascination with income share agreements—in which students typically pay a percent of their future income in lieu of upfront tuition—is no better exemplified than in the current crop of graduates from Y Combinator. He co-founded and served as chief technology officer at TeacherTalent. It’s good timing.

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Learning with 'e's

JANUARY 7, 2016

Many of them are about new technologies. The Horizon report has a monopoly on this for educaion, using a virtual round table of 'experts' to whittle down all the possibilities into one or two trends that they think will be prevalent in education in the next one year, 2-3 years and 4-5 years. MOOCs won't be the end.

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The Principal of Change

OCTOBER 22, 2016

Instead of slowing down and showing step-by-step every little thing that I am doing with technology, I am purposefully going fast and showing people the speed of how quickly I can get things done amazingly well with the technology. Yet technology does not equate to innovation. . They see the value, so they figure it out.

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Perry Hewitt

MARCH 25, 2016

Scott Brinker has released the 2016 marketing technology landscape diagram, mapping 3,874 solutions into six capability categories (shows above). How lifelong learning correlates with educational attainment and household income was not surprising. A new Pew report explores U.S. 1 – Use a password manager.).

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Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2017

education technology startups ebbed in 2016, dipping roughly 30 percent in deal volume and value from the previous year. 2016 US Edtech Funding Totals $1 Billion. funding) Can Investors Make Money and Do Good in Education? Education rewards patience, and one investor group has re-upped its coffers.

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The Principal of Change

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

Over the past couple of weeks, I had some interesting questions from educators. The first was from a math teacher asking me how I would use technology at the high school level with advanced placement students. The next was from a teacher talking about using technology in a school where devices are used by students in relation to gangs.

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The Principal of Change

MARCH 25, 2017

I am not a fan, and when schools are saying that they are either a) in a time crunch or, b) having limited use of technology, I struggle that we use this precious amount of time focusing on keyboarding programs. Once we start hoping the technology will solve our problems, the more trouble will be in as educators, for a plethora of reasons.

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The Principal of Change

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Most educators have already heard about this teen who made the “Sit With Us App”, to help students find people to sit with at lunch. Cool technology!” ” I firmly believe that it is our thinking that creates the solutions, not any technology. September 8, 2016 The #InnovatorsMindset MOOC Starting Soon!

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The Principal of Change

AUGUST 5, 2018

I was recently sent an email and asked to identify some of the challenges I see for the future of learning in education. These are things that I have noticed through my travels and after countless conversations with educators, and things that I have seen in my work. If we use technology to dehumanize one another, I want no part of it.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 14, 2020

So goes the origin story of many education startups born this year, like ClassEDU, which raised $16 million to put some oomph in Zoom classrooms. It was started by one of the co-founders of Blackboard, now a household name in education technology. But they are not done with higher education yet. Child is disengaged.

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Edsurge

MARCH 24, 2017

First the numbers: In the past year, we have published more than 300 articles about the shifting trends in higher ed, education technology and digital learning. Nearly half of you told us that we’re your top source for higher education news (thank you!) In 2016 we added one of our own to the mix: EdSurge Independent.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 21, 2016

October 12, 2016. EDUCAUSE HULK (@EDUCAUSE_HULK) October 14, 2016. It’s kind of uncovering some of the absurdity of what happens in higher education and higher education IT in particular,” he says of what keeps him taking on this alter ego every year. What’s his suggestion? EDUCAUSE HULK. EDU16 PRO TIP! MAKE SCHEDULE NOW!

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Marketplace K-12

JUNE 27, 2016

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. Reading, English/Language Arts: 30 percent.

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Edsurge

JULY 20, 2017

A 2016 report funded by the Gates Foundation found that in the U.S. The field has deep roots in distance education, human computer interaction, and visual design. But they can also be creating learning apps, museum exhibits, or the latest educational toy. alone, there are 13,000 instructional designers. Surely a lot has changed!

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