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Michelle Weise: ‘We Need to Design the Learning Ecosystem of the Future’

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How many new jobs that don’t exist today will a person have during a 150-year lifespan? Proponents of the liberal arts love to explain how an excellent general education will teach students to learn how to learn for a lifetime. We can’t extrapolate from where we are today to meet the challenges of the workforce of 2030 or 2040.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). MOOCs are back in the headlines again. Via Edsurge : “The Second Wave of MOOC Hype Is Here, and It’s Online Degrees.” Economy by 2030.” “ The 74 Explains: How to Teach Your Baby Grit.” ” Imperil!!

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “A Sector in Flux: How For-Profit Higher Ed Has Shifted.” ” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Via Mindwires Consulting’s Phil Hill : “If At First You Don’t Succeed, Try To Be An OPM : Conversion of for-profits and MOOCs.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” “How to Con Black Law Students: A Case Study” – Elie Mystal in The New York Times on a partnership between the HBCU Bethune-Cookman and the for-profit Arizona Summit Law School. . ” Ng is, of course, the co-founder of the MOOC startup Coursera. From the HR Department. HR news as “ fake news.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Responses to last week’s news about Western Governors University and the audit of its competency-based offerings: Via NPR : “Who Is A College Teacher, Anyway? .” Edsurge on “How to Protect Education Data When No Systems Are Secure.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” “How Much Hollywood Glitz Should Colleges Use in Their Online Courses ?” “How Silicon Valley Plans to Conquer the Classroom” by The New York Times’ Natasha Singer – through some pretty shady practices, no doubt.