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The Still-Evolving Future of University Credentials

Edsurge

Five years ago, I published a book on the future of university credentials, making some predictions about what seemed likely to come next in the market for degrees and emerging forms of alternative college credentials. In my book I might have been a bit overly optimistic about the resistance of traditional higher ed, however.

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The Year in Podcasts: Top EdSurge On Air Episodes of 2018

Edsurge

MOOCs are No Longer Massive. Once upon a time, free online courses known as MOOCs made national headlines. So we talked with Dhawal Shah, founder and CEO of Class Central, who has been tracking MOOCs closely ever since he was a student in one of those first Stanford open courses, about how MOOCs have evolved.

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Questions of Compliance or Empowerment?

The Principal of Change

This type of assessment is not about understanding what a students knows and reporting on it, but it is a tool used for learning. September 8, 2016 The #InnovatorsMindset MOOC Starting Soon! Many students are smart enough that they know how to meet the objectives of a rubric and still not grow much in their learning.

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Is the new education reform hiding in plain sight?

The Hechinger Report

Photo: Laura Pappano for The Hechinger Report. What does personalized learning mean to the perennial tug-of-war over content — in higher education’s “great books” debate over whether students should absorb the Western canon or study what they want, and, at the K-12 level, over the Common Core? What can that look like? When Dan D.

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From “Data Driven” to “Evidence Driven”

The Principal of Change

In my last post, “Common Assessments” vs “Common Understandings” , I was reminded of how powerful comments are on a blog, and why blogging is a hugely powerful tool for not only sharing your learning, but learning from others. 2 What I think we mean is that we are looking for “common understandings”, not “common assessments”.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Some of these experimental sites included MOOCs and coding bootcamps. Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “Assessing the Travel Ban : What New Data on Overseas Recruitment Does – and Doesn’t – Tell Us.” State and Local) Education Politics. ” Education in the Courts.

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Educational Crises and Ed-Tech: A History

Hack Education

" But the answers to that question are, of course, bound up in our beliefs and practices and expectations, in our assessments of what "preparedness" even means. My forthcoming book, Teaching Machines focuses — as the title suggests — examines the push to adopt teaching machines during this period.

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