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Top EdSurge Higher Education Stories of 2021

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Unsurprisingly, the pandemic featured prominently in the higher education stories most popular with EdSurge readers last year. What Does That Mean For Higher Education? Young The MOOC giant was valued at more than $3.6 How Remote Learning Subverts Power and Privilege in Higher Education. By Jeffrey R. How Is It Doing?

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EdSurge HigherEd Year in Review: Our Top Higher Education Stories of 2018

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While not quite the “Year of the MOOC,” 2018 saw a resurgence in interest around the ways these massive open online courses are delivering free (and more often these days, not free) online education around the world, and how these providers are increasingly turning to traditional institutions of learning. Cheating on Chegg?

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Why I'm Still Bullish About the State of Edtech

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In the next few days, thousands of edtech entrepreneurs, investors, educators and policymakers will flood a hotel in San Diego to attend the Mecca of Education Innovation Optimism known as ASU GSV. based education and workforce technology companies, together amounting to more than $150 billion in market capitalization.

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MissionU Says It Can Replace Traditional College With a One-Year Program

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A venture-backed company today announced a new educational offering billed as an alternative to the standard undergraduate experience. The inspiration for Braun’s foray into higher education came partly from his wife, who he says wracked up so much college-loan debt that it became “crushing to so many aspects of her life.”

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5 Ed-Tech Ideas Face The Chronicle’s Version of ‘Shark Tank’

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The Chronicle adopted a modified version of the format during a session at the South by Southwest Edu conference in March, with a panel of experts weighing in on five new products or ideas to fix pressing problems in higher education. Freedman: I love where you started with the criticism of the MOOCs. I served as moderator.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Education Politics. From the Department of Education’s press release : “U.S. Secretary of Education Announces Chief of Staff and Additional Staff Hires.” ” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “DeVos Withdraws Obama-Era Memos Focused on Improving Loan Servicing.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. All this feeds the review I write each December on the stories we are told about the future of education. National) Education Politics. Mick Zais has been confirmed as the Deputy Secretary of Education.