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14 Examples Of Innovation In Higher Education

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Also note, the point of this post isn’t to showcase how innovative higher education is but rather to point out innovations that are out there as a kind of survey while also hopefully helping pollinate the possibility of innovation in the upper end of the field and ‘industry’ of education. Open Curriculum.

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The Professor Who Quit His Tenured Job to Make Podcasts and Lecture Videos

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Fill out this five-minute survey , and you can enter to win a $100 Amazon gift card. He made the move to his new phase of scholarly life during a rush of enthusiasm for so-called MOOCs, Massive Open Online Courses, that big-name colleges were starting to offer low-cost higher education to a wider audience. We want to hear from you!

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2016 and Beyond: The Future of Classroom Technology by @MelanieNathan

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For instance, one recent survey reported that 75% of the responding K-12 educators in the United States assessed their student’s access to technology in the classroom as “good” or “great” Roughly four out of five teachers planned to utilize these types of resources more extensively during the 2016 academic year.

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Technology and Casey Green on campus: Future Trends Forum #3, notes and full recording

Bryan Alexander

Another persistent trend is challenges caused by growing user numbers and activites, including both generating and demanding more data, online behavior abuses, security threats, and challenges about accessibility. Another problem less well discussed is the challenge of accessibility. Can’t U’s use tech the same way?”

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7 Ways for Learning Designers to Build Habit-Forming Experiences

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We assume that granting learners access to education technology outside the classroom to be used on their own time is unequivocally positive. Without imposed schedules, proximity to peers, or physical classrooms, even the best-intentioned students never make it through a MOOC or fail to reengage with the educational app they downloaded.

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Online Education: Will it Make Us Smarter? #SXSWedu

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Small start ups and giant MOOCS. Building learning content that students can access on their own. Important to get feedback from students through surveys to assess quality of teaching and content. Mobile devices will help integrate online learning into people''s busy lives. K-12 will follow by 2019. Re-engagement is huge.

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

Bryan Alexander

I kicked things off with a survey of major technological developments in a very top level way, then dived into specific, currently used digital tools (the LMS, ePortfolios, video, robotics, big data, social media, 3d printing, etc.). That meant open source software, open education resources, and open access in scholarly publication.