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Credential Blockchains Could Help Student Mobility. These 4 Efforts Explore How.

Edsurge

Blockchain technology first appeared as part of cyber currencies like Bitcoin, but a range of industries are now experimenting with the approach, which involves making digital transactions public and permanent in a way that is very difficult to tamper with or counterfeit. The San Jose State University School of Information is finding out.

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If I was teaching Social Studies today…

Dangerously Irrelevant

Like many teachers, I would tap into the the Library of Congress, which would give me tips for teaching with primary sources , including quarterly journal articles on topics such as integrating historical and geographic thinking. million book images from the Internet Archive. . National Archives, and maybe dig through the 5.3

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As College Innovation Efforts Grow, So Do Warnings of a ‘McDonaldization’ of Higher Ed

Edsurge

One of the most-cited versions of the critique is the 2002 book “ The McDonaldization of Higher Education ,” by Dennis Hayes and Robin Wynyard. The formulation is meant to provoke, and the authors boil their argument into four bullet points (adopting the style and spirit of the business books they critique). And industry does this.

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?Readers’ Roundup: EdSurge HigherEd’s Top 10 Articles of 2017

Edsurge

A few weeks after EdSurge probed the company about the silence, Amazon opened up the resource library to the public. More Colleges Are Offering Microcredentials—And Developing Them The Way Businesses Make New Products A few years ago elite universities were frantically jumping into MOOCs. Well, at least partially open.

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Lessons from Boise: What colleges can teach us about fostering innovation

Perry Hewitt

Organizations as diverse as Fidelity Investments and the New York Public Library are also adopting this tactic. Popular new books like Radical Candor and Principles emphasize the benefits of rapid and transparent feedback as a driver of a growth mindset. Sometimes these initiatives come with credit hours or other academic benefit.

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Events + News - Library 2.0 Spring Summit - Free-Range Kids - Testing "Chaos" and Opting Out - Student Debt - Will College Survive?

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

This is a LIVE show presented in news show format featuring a Wrap up of “This Month in School Libraries” and deeper discussion of topical school library issues with special guest experts. Two Week Calendar Monday, April 20th at 8pm TL News Night LIVE! Did we mention it was LIVE? Register for free at [link].

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

For example, this story from the School Library Journal : “ Charter Schools , Segregation , and School Library Access.” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” “ No, YouTube is not a library – and why it matters” by Sarah T. “Many are never the same.”