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New Report Sheds Light on Higher Ed’s Innovation Challenges

Edsurge

Among the report’s findings are that 91 percent of the administrators responding to the survey said that innovation “is stated as a priority in either their strategic or academic plans, or both documents.” He says online learning creates opportunities to try out new models such as adaptive learning and competency-based learning.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

For the past ten years, I have written a lengthy year-end series, documenting some of the dominant narratives and trends in education technology. Whittle went on to have a string of business failures in the 1990s — well-documented in Samuel Abrams’s book The Commercial Mindset — most notably the for-profit flop Edison Schools.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via the Indianapolis Business Journal : “Legal skirmishes break out over ITT documents, data.” The for-profit Charlotte School of Law says it might get its access to federal financial aid restored. ” Codecademy, Edsurge contends, is now a competitor to Coursera and Udacity.