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Yes There’s ‘Disruption’ in College Market, But the Bigger Trend Is Growth of ‘Enabler’ Companies

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Department of Education’s EQUIP experimental sites initiative is an interesting case study that recognizes there is value in aligning non-institutional, upstart providers of education with respected traditional institutions – but also that this direction will demand new, outcome-oriented quality assurance models.

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Could Remixing Old MOOCs Give New Life to Free Online Education?

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From that list of results, he says, you might pick three videos and an infographic, and then add a case study focusing on a really moving human story. And since it’s built on top of the open-source software released by edX (called OpenEdX), it will be free for anyone to use.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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From the Knewton blog : “ Introducing Knewton Product Updates for Fall 2017.” The literacy software company has raised $14.8 ” Via Times Higher Education : “ Online courses ‘more time-consuming’ to prepare for , study says.” ” The startup is called Learning Beautiful.