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Revolution in Higher Education: chapter 2

Bryan Alexander

Continuing with our reading of Richard DeMillo’s Revolution in Higher Education: How a Small Band of Innovators Will Make College Accessible and Affordable (2015) ( publisher ; Amazon ): this week we’re discussing chapter 2, “Shifting Landscape.” DeMillo carries on with several themes. Kindle location 1093).

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Millennials: The Straw That Will Stir Higher Education’s Next Disruption

EdNews Daily

The conversation regarding higher education has never been more heated. Famous billionaire college dropouts like Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, and the late Steve Jobs are prominent examples of successes who never completed undergraduate degrees. Today’s Millennials have different educational needs from those of previous generations.

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Is the new education reform hiding in plain sight?

The Hechinger Report

When it comes to their children’s education, parents are like drug-sniffing dogs. Their changed view — and that of others who shunned Rogers and now want in — is driven by what seems to be a magic educational elixir: personalized learning. But personalized learning raises big questions about educational equity. Higher Education.

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Examples Of Innovation In Higher Ed–With A Caution

TeachThought - Learn better.

I don’t follow higher education very closely, so this is all from 10 feet away. Competency-Based Education is something I’m hearing more and more about, which is neither bad nor good, but worth understanding more carefully. The flipped classroom movement seems to, in pockets, be threatening the college lecture.

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Still, Watters runs deep #EDEN15

Learning with 'e's

Audrey Watters and Maarten de Laat Education writer and journalist Audrey Watters describes herself as a recovering academic, serial dropout and rabble rouser - her blog also carries the epithet 'trouble maker'. Educational technology is not new, she said, but we must avoid purposeful reinterpretation of history.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Sunday, April 26th at 7pm TechEducator Podcast: 10 Ways to be a Rock Star Teacher in your Classroom , Are you interested in creating dynamic hands on lesson plans that leave your students wanting to come back to class the next day? Saturday, May 2nd at 12pm CR20 LIVE Weekly Show - Featured Teacher: Lisa Parisi , Classroom 2.0

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Professors Aren’t Good at Sharing Their Classroom Practices. Teaching Portfolios Might Help.

Edsurge

At the height of the buzz around MOOCs and flipped classrooms three years ago, Bridget Ford worried that administrators might try to replace her introductory history course with a batch of videos. And professors have other ways to share their classroom tips: Publishing research about their teaching in peer-reviewed scholarly journals.