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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. We invite up to 1,000 students who have previously completed two or more of our free MOOCs to apply to participate in these challenges.

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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. You can be working in a classroom for 20, 30 years, and you are having an impact on kids that you will never meet in your entire life.

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

Digital Promise

UDL’s principles are powerful supports for Opportunity Youth who have opted out of schools and learning environments that failed to meet their needs. In 2016, we had our first participant from a YouthBuild International program in Mexico City. With CAST, we have created the Learning Differences Leadership Cohort of Fellows. Learn More.

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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.”

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2016 and all that.

Learning with 'e's

MOOCs won't be the end. 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. We will have more choice over what we learn, how we learn it, when and where we learn it and over the pace of our learning. 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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As Corporate World Moves Toward Curated ‘Microlearning,’ Higher Ed Must Adapt

Edsurge

employers spent nearly $71 billion on training in 2016—a figure that was flat compared to 2015. Well-funded MOOC providers Coursera, Udacity and EdX have evolved their business models to focus squarely on corporate learning and serving professionals seeking credentials. According to the Association for Talent Development, U.S.

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