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What Do You Call It When Colleges Turn Their Research Powers On Their Own Practices?

Edsurge

Except that analogy doesn’t really work, because education isn’t a product, and most professors bristle at comparisons to the corporate sector. Many of the new academic-innovation efforts at colleges started about three years ago, amid widespread hype around massive open online courses, or MOOCs.

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The Innovator’s Mindset—A Blockbuster Lesson from George Couros

Fractus Learning

Trust me, he’ll like this comparison!) George has a few more follower Twitter followers than me; well, 141 000 more to be exact! The company failed to see “the writing on the wall” and failed to innovate. Indeed, he is the Justin Timberlake of educational innovation. Education cannot become the new Blockbuster.”.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Responses to last week’s news about Western Governors University and the audit of its competency-based offerings: Via NPR : “Who Is A College Teacher, Anyway? .” ” ( No disclosure that Edsurge shares investors with the company.).

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” ( A good thread on Twitter in response.). Via EdWeek’s Market Brief : “ ISTE Unveils Plans to Match Ed-Tech Companies With Educators for Feedback on Apps.” The company, formerly known as PLATO Learning, is owned by Thomas Bravo.