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

Digital Promise

YouthBuild USA , a Digital Promise Adult Learning Beacon , is an international intermediary for a network of 250 community-based YouthBuild programs and schools around the country. UDL’s guiding principles are: All people learn differently; The emotion behind learning is as important as the learning; and.

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Crowdfunding Meets Webinar: How One Organization Uses Slack to Tackle Global Challenges

Edsurge

Now that we’ve assembled international crowds of motivated, smart people online in MOOCs, it’s time to think about harnessing their collective intelligence to tackle these urgent cross-boundary issues. To facilitate this, we’ve landed on a new format for synchronous online learning that’s a mashup of a webinar and crowdfunding platform.

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Campus Tech 2016: Recognizing—and Questioning—“Inevitable” Futures

Edsurge

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. Technologists are known by many names, but to some, they are simply “wizards.” We have taken the risk out of education,” Collier declared.

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GSV Ventures Raises $180M Fund in Search of Global Edtech Opportunities

Edsurge

There are also new technologies that have yet to meet their potential, she adds: “There is some skepticism around AI and machine learning, but there are substantive pieces of technology being built, and education is just in the first inning of productively applying them to improve teaching and learning.” billion in 2017.

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

Edsurge

“We want to build from the ground up an inclusive learning system for students and faculty, one that can recreate engaging, live learning experiences online,” says Dan Avida. Koller, who left Coursera in 2016, is currently CEO of Insitro, a drug-development startup that raised $143 million in May.

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Customizing Learning to Innovate “Inside the Box”

The Principal of Change

So what does this all mean for education and learning? For example, from our students, do we look for quality and high-level learning as an indicator of success or that a student is doing what they are doing at the time we have told them to do it? “Self-regulation” is more about finding what works for you, not for someone else.

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?HigherEd Year in Review: What We’ve Learned (and Loved) in Our First 365 Days

Edsurge

As a result, we’re pausing to reflect on what we’ve learned from our work, yes, from our readers. 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. In 2016 we added one of our own to the mix: EdSurge Independent.

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